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Joanna Pocock on writing about kindness and perspective on the American Road

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America is a place that has compelled countless writers to travel its vast and varied landscapes. Perhaps you’ve done it yourself. But what happens when you feel compelled to do it all again?
That’s the question at the heart of Joanna Pocock’s essay, Greyhound (Fitzcarraldo Editions). Named after the iconic bus company whose intercity network carries passengers from Detroit to Los Angeles — and which Joanna relies on for her own journey — Greyhound revisits familiar motels, crossings, and bus stations she first encountered years before.

Joanna’s writing has appeared in Granta, The Los Angeles Times, The Nation, and The London Review of Books, among others. GREYHOUND is her second book, and her first, SURRENDER, won the Fitzcarraldo essay prize.

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Reference Points
- 1.40 - is Joanna a city or a country writer
- 3.20 - where the journey starts
- 6.15 - why are there not more women on the road?
- 09.00 - starting in Canada.
- 11.05 - Borders
- 12.15 - the people Joanna meets
- 16.05 - the sense of perspective.
- 17.50 - people Joanna sees
- 19.30 - Amarillo and fecal dust
- 23.00 - rippling pages podcast
- 24.05 - the cost of travel
- 26.35 - the bus as a political space
- 30.30 - the enduring appeal of the American road.

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Reference Points
Ansel Adams
Lewis Baltz
Simone de Beauvoir - America Day by Day
Jack Kerouac - On the Road
Irma Kirtz - The Great American Bus Ride
Ethel Mannin - An America Journey
Benjamin Markovits - The Rest of Our Lives
William Least Heat-Moon - Blue Highways
Ed Ruscha
The Salt Path - Raynor Winn

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