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.

<p>This week, Jonathan Rogers talks with Vesper Stamper, illustrator and author of <em>A Cloud of Outrageous Blue</em>. 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.</p>

Conversations with writers about writing, hosted by Jonathan Rogers.

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