For more Smoke Hole content subscribe to the Smoke Hole Sessions podcast to hear amazing conversations between Martin Shaw and some of our most admired writers actors comedians and musicians like Sir Mark Rylance John Densmore and othersWith potent lyrical language and a profound knowledge of storytelling Shaw encourages and illuminates the mythic in our own lives He is a modernday bard Madeline Miller author of Circe and The Song of AchillesAt a time when we are all confronted by not one but many crossroads in our modern livesidentity technology trust politics and a global pandemiccelebrated mythologist and wilderness guide Martin Shaw delivers Smoke Hole three metaphors to help us understand our world one that is assailed by the seductive promises of social media and shadowed by a health crisis that has brought loneliness and isolation to an alltime highSmoke Hole is a passionate call to arms and an invitation to use these stories to face the complexities of contemporary life from