The author of A Sense of Direction, which he calls unclassifiable, reveals how he came to write a travelogue that is ‘all digressions.’ He talks to Noah Charney.
In 1947 Sal Paradise/Jack Kerouac and Dean Moriarty/Neal Cassady went on the road, and their intense quests for meaning embodied the Beats. In 2008 Tom Bissell and Gideon Lewis-Kraus went on a trip around Europe, and their friendship illuminates a skeptical-slacker era exemplified by hipsters in Brooklyn.
