On April 6th, I’ll be running a session at New Hampshire Writers’ Day on Southern New Hampshire University’s campus, alongside fellow writers like Andre Dubus III, Nicholson Baker, and Paul Harding. Here’s the description from the program: 4R: Don’t Throw Away the Map! with Tim Horvath

Books and maps have a longstanding kinship with each other, from Robinson Crusoe’s frontispiece to Jorge Luis Borges’s map that expands to become as sprawling and chaotic as the territory of which it was intended to make sense. In this session, we’ll fling our GPS systems out the window and take a fresh look at maps as a form of storytelling, as well as versatile storytelling devices. Moreover, we’ll become amateur cartographers, probing into our own works of fiction or memoir till we’ve discovered uncharted territory and begun to survey the jagged emotional topographies of our characters’ lives and our own.

Will we actually sacrifice expensive satellite-driven gadgets? Learn to fold maps with one hand tied behind our backs? You’ll simply have to be there to find out. Feast your eyes on the day’s events (and details right down to sandwich options) and then register: http://www.writersday.org/content/writers%E2%80%99-day-2013-register-today.