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William T. Vollmann, Riding Toward Everywhere
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Tuesday Feb 12, 2008 (7pm)
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NYC's pulse may throb to the subway beat, but that's nothing compared to the old national tradition of riding the rails. Author William T. Vollmann's Riding Toward Everywhere is a romantic meditation on hobo living, told by an actual train-hopper. Detailing the logistics of boarding a moving train and how to evade security checkpoints, Vollmann recounts his Beat-era adventures with a deft literary touch, exploring America from the platforms of its all-but-forgotten locomotives.
