I have begun, and abandoned because of complexity, a reading map. Today I read the introduction and first chapter of Annie Dillard’s Living by Fiction on my DroidX Kindle app. A free sample has sat on my phone for many, maybe as much as six, months. I have opened and closed the electronic link often. Yesterday the neglected obvious connection to my writing practice clicked. I made my first Kindle purchase ending my long search for examples of experimental texts. In seconds I am reading Dillard’s response to my inquiry on metafiction, analysis of writers and titles with descriptions of experimental techniques explored in the texts. I am reading in the back seat of a taxi heading up and cross town in freezing rain to have lunch with my beloved Feminist, Marxist professor well worth enduring the icy slush pools. Hours and errands later I return home to find Amazon has delivered Hazel Smith’s The Writing Experiment that is singing a duet with Dillard’s text. I will attempt to make a map on bubbl.us, a sort of comparative chart of corresponding and disparate theories.