My Review of Mark Vaughn
Originally submitted at Autoweek.com
''With the coming of Dean Moriarty began the part of my life you could call my life on the road.'' So begins Jack Kerouac's seminal novel On The Road, which launched many a late-'50s desk jockey out onto the highway and cured many an English major of ever writing another simple declarative sentence...
Northbound
I drove to Alaska once. Hammer-down along the Alcan dodging logging trucks and itinerant wanderers who were taking a step a step too far, the way back hidden in the pinprick of light on a television just before the screen goes black. Northern lights, pale green ice-fire hanging there in forever darkness and me on my forever highway. Jack Kerouac were he to stop by would put his feet up and say "yessir, mighty fine."
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posted by Alan S. at
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