OFF THE ROAD: AN AMERICAN SKETCHBOOK
Villard (December 3, 1996)
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OFF THE ROAD: AN AMERICAN SKETCHBOOK
After my first book came out, I quit my job at The New Yorker and drove around America in my parents’ ’89 Honda. I brought forty-eight maps, sixty sketchbooks, and a guidebook listing every Motel 6 in the country (though most nights I ended up sleeping in car). I went to some predictable places, let some unpredictable places come to me: sunbathers in Florida, the Ben & Jerry’s factory in Vermont, firefighters in Idaho, the Chicago Board of Trade. I put 14,000 miles on the car. The trip took all summer. When I was done I put my experiences in this book.
