This week, Jonathan Rogers talks with Vesper Stamper, illustrator and author of A Cloud of Outrageous Blue. They discuss how illustration became for Vesper a doorway into storytelling, what her research into the Middle Ages for her new book has taught her about plagues, and synesthesia as the beginning of metaphor.

Joyce McPherson Writes Books 45 Minutes at a Time
36:02

Winfield Bevins Thinks Beauty Will Save the World
38:47

Daniel Nayeri on The Teacher of Nomad Land
46:04