Selected Readings

Inspiration finds itself in meek roadside gas stops, derelict vans and dusty bars thousands of kilometres away from home. In times when it is nowhere to be found, I’ve turned to some books to help me find the words and focus for this adventure.

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Barclay, Micheal, Ian A.D. Jack, and Jason Schneider. Have Not Been the Same. Toronto: ECW Press, 2001.

Blush, Steven. American Hardcore. Los Angeles: Feral House, 2001.

Canada, The Road Across. Edward McCourt. Toronto: MacMillan of Canada, 1965.

Chaucer, Geoffrey. Canterbury Tales. London: J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd., 1962.

Christy, Jim. Rough Road to the North. Toronto: Doubleday Canada Ltd., 1980.

Conrad, Joseph. Heart of Darkness. London: Penguin Books, 1973.

Cooper, John Irwin. Montreal a Brief History. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1969.

Crump, Donald J. Exploring America’s Scenic Highways. Washington D.C.: National Geographic Society, 1985.

Garofalo, Reebee. Rockin Out: Popular Music in the USA. Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 1997.

Homer. The Odyssey. Ware: Wordsworth Editions Ltd., 1992.

Kafka, Franz. The Castle. New York: Schocken Books, 1998.

Keyes, Cheryl L. Rap Music and Street Consciousness. Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2002.

Lee, Tommy, Mick Mars, Vince Neil, and Nikki Sixx. The Dirt: Confessions of the World’s Most Notorious Rock Band. New York: Harper Collins, 2001.

MacDonald, Laura M. Curse of the Narrows. Toronto: Harper Collins, 2005.

Markusen, Ann. “The Urban Core as Cultural Sticky Space.” In Time Space Places, by Dietrich Henckel, 1-18. Berlin: Peter Lang Verlag, 2007.

McCourt, Edward. The Road Across Canada. Toronto: MacMillan of Canada, 1965.

Mulvany, C. Pelham. Toronto Past and Present until 1882. Toronto: Ontario Reprint Press, 1970.

Mumford, Lewis. The City in History. New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc., 1961.

Ovenden, Mark. Transit Maps of the World. London: Penguin Books Ltd., 2007.

Phinney, Kevin. Souled American. New York: Billboard Books, 2005.

Rollins, Henry. Get in the Van: On the road with Black Flag. Los Angeles: 2.13.61 Publishings, 1994.

—. Smile, You’re Traveling. Los Angelese: 2.13.61 Publishings, 2000.

Scott, Derek B. Sounds of the Metropolis. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008.

Steinbeck, John. The Grapes of Wrath. New York: Bantam Books, 1966.

—. Travels with Charley. New York: Penguin Books Ltd., 2002.

Tolkien, J.R.R. The Hobbit. London: Harper Collins Publishing, 1999.

Vale, Thomas R., and Geraldine R. Vale. U.S. 40 Today. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1983.