Eric and I did a couple of projects together when we worked at The Inquirer, notably the feature about the 100th anniversary of Bloomsday (it was Eric's idea). Both he and Kass are outstanding photographers, and I just spent a couple of days looking through this book.
If you've ever driven from coast to coast, as I have, you will know that what you retain afterwards tends to take the form of snapshots, images that conjure sentiments, not ideas. Paging through Almost Heaven is a lot like looking out of a car window (I was not the driver when the lovely Carla De Haas and I made the trip in 1976).
From the opening shot of people standing in Times Square (where the Lincoln Highway begins) on the first anniversary of 9/11 to the one of some woman wrestling with an immense inflatable dinosaur at a used car lot in Plymouth, Kan., to the moody profile of a guy sitting at a table in what I take to be a luncheonette in Eureka, Nev., this book will be for whoever looks at it either a stroll down memory lane or an enticement to get up and go "on the road."
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