Staff Picks: Twang, Texture, Truck Drivers
by The Paris Review
Jun 02, 2017
3 minutes
If you, like me, are a fan of Harry Chapin’s “,” you’ll love Finn Murphy’s . Murphy, a truck driver since 1980, lets us ride along as he crisscrosses the U.S. ad infinitum. We journey down Colorado’s deadly Loveland Pass, where he sweats his air brakes’ ability to hold; bomb straight through 199 miles of South Carolina swampland in a nine-truck convoy; and get lost out in America’s lonely “couple of thousand miles of corn.” delivers because it is a surveymarks the beginning of a new set of American road tales. —
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