On the Road

One Fast Move or I'm Gone: An Interview with Son Volt's Jay Farrar and Death Cab For Cutie's Benjamin Gibbard

Mike Ragogna | Posted 10.21.2009 | Entertainment

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Mike Ragogna

Although Son Volt's Jay Farrar and Death Cab For Cutie's Benjamin Gibbard create music from two different perspectives their blend on the soundtrack One Fast Move Or I'm Gone: Kerouac's Big Sur syncs perfectly.

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On the Road: Why Do We Want To Travel?

Robert Fuller | Posted 10.10.2009 | Living

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Robert Fuller

Fear is part of what makes travel so enlivening and revelatory. You're perpetually off-balance and on guard. After a while one yearns for the mindlessness of familiar routines.

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Iraqi Refugees Make American Road Trip

Joseph Freeman | Posted 09.05.2009 | Politics

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Joseph Freeman

Iraqi students Fouad and Ahmed feel thrilled to traverse the unknown landscape of an enormous country, a place whose people and policies have had such an impact on their unlikely fates.

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Live And Unscrolled: The Original "On The Road" Manuscript At Columbia College

Columbia College Chicago | Posted 12.20.2008 | Chicago

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Jack Kerouac's iconic manuscript scroll of On the Road is the centerpiece of a college-wide initiative investigating the disparate group of poets, art...

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