Editorial Coverage of Everything Sings
LOS ANGELES TIMES: DAVID ULIN
Featuring an introduction by Ira Glass, the book is unlike anything I've ever seen, a series of maps of Wood's North Carolina neighborhood, in which the community is represented by a variety of factors: streetlights, mail carrier routes, jack-o'-lanterns, fallen autumn leaves. The result is a volume that is beautiful and informative that encourages us to see the world in different ways.
ESSAY DAILY: MELISSA McCRAE
This is what I came to feel as I read Wood’s book, even after all of my urges toward stubborn denial: The Boylan Heights of Everything Sings was a place that I longed to return to, even while my mind informed me that it was a place I had never been. . . . Everything Sings works to fight the privileging of quantifiable forms of information—that which is meted, “objective”—over the emotional and sensorial experience of place. Denis Wood’s innovative approach to mapmaking, even crisp, dry numbers (“Police Calls”) and naked lines (“Squirrel Highways”) tell a story of people, of place, and the entwined experience of both. Everything Sings is remarkable in what and how it essays. Read more...
FANZINE: ROB TENNANT
The enjoyment of Everything Sings is not just about the maps, however. Wood’s opening chapter, touched on above, is a brief but invigorating stroll through 20th century intellectualism. The texts paired with each map are a well-balanced mish-mash of history, commentary, poetry, and craft. Though the book lends itself to a casual flip-through, taking in the maps simply as individual pieces of art, Everything Sings is meant to be read. Read more...
THE STRANGER’S SLOG: PAUL CONSTANT
As Ira Glass points out in his foreword, these maps make Google Maps look sad and sterile in comparison . . . . Wood is kind of extending Perec's work into an additional dimension and extending the experiment to span decades. Read more…
POETS & WRITERS:
Map of Lester’s Paper Route in Space & Time featured on the Nov/Dec cover.
FRINGE: TIM STALLMAN
Tim Stallman interviews Denis Wood. Read more...
More reviews forthcoming in CARTOGRAPHICA, CARTOGRAPHIC PERSPECTIVES, ANNALS OF AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF GEOGRAPHERS, and even a review as poem in the next YEARBOOK OF THE ASSOCIATION OF PACIFIC COAST GEOGRAPHERS.
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