It's Still Summer. Let's Talk Road Trip Books.
'It's such a flexible form,' Garner says. 'You can do anything with the road trip idea. So many novels that aren't even road trip novels contain scenes where one of the major characters flees the house and goes away for a few days just to escape what's there — often fleeing in search of something else.'
Books discussed in this episode:
'On the Road,' by Jack Kerouac
'Sing, Unburied, Sing,' by Jesmyn Ward
'Lost Children Archive,' by Valeria Luiselli
'I Am Homeless if This Is Not My Home,' by Lorrie Moore
'Tramps Like Us," by Joe Westmoreland
'Driving Mr. Albert,' by Michael Paterniti
'Gypsy: A Memoir," by Gypsy Rose Lee
'The Dog of the South,' by Charles Portis
'All Fours,' by Miranda July
'Hearts,' by Hilma Wolitzer
'The Pigeon Tunnel: Stories From My Life,' by John le Carré
'Machine Dreams,' by Jayne Anne Phillips
'Lonesome Dove,' by Larry McMurtry
'Lolita,' by Vladimir Nabokov
'The Grapes of Wrath,' by John Steinbeck
'The Price of Salt,' by Patricia Highsmith
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