Jonathan Sawday reflects on the ways in which citizenship in America differs from being a subject in the United Kingdom.
Category: On the Road
We can’t sit still. That’s why we hit the shores and kept going west till we hit the Pacific and then turned around and did it all over again. We’re a mobile people, always on the move, looking for that next frontier. Read about some of those stories here.
Memories of Mark – Bill Cushing
This is not a story but a memory. In August 1980, having just lost a job in New York, a… Read more Memories of Mark – Bill Cushing
King of the Road: An Englishman on Route 50 – Jonathan Sawday
This summer, Jonathan Sawday, an Englishman living in St. Louis, MO, decided to attend a party in San Francisco. He chose to drive there (and back) on his own. Here’s how the trip panned out.
Kerouacking: A Failed Project in Four Movements – Jamey Gallagher
Jamey Gallagher revisits Jack Kerouac anew.
Master of Atlantis: Charles Portis, the South’s Salinger? – Trevor Seigler
Trevor Seigler searches for Charlis Portis, “True Grit” author and the “Southern Salinger.”
“No more [green] than any other city” – Zoya Brumberg
Zoya Brumberg discovers Chicago, Oz, and everywhere in between.
Gettysburg is my Jersey Shore – Ashley Pfeiffer
Some people went down the shore in the summer, Ashley Pfeiffer went to Gettysburg.
A Misunderstood Symbol – Jacob Ian
Over the decades since August 16th, 1977, our culture has rendered him nearly flattened, completely one dimensional, neatened into a nice little pile of quaint references and one-liners.
Horror in the Sierra Nevadas: A First Hand Account of the Donner Party – Eliza Poor Houghton
A harrowing eye-witness account of the infamous Donner Party. “I learned many things which I could neither have understood nor remembered had they not made them plain.”
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