![]() ![]() Yes, I’ve traveled into every county in the contiguous forty-eight states. ![]() William Least Heat-Moon: My book, Here, There, Elsewhere, has several stories about places and people overseas-Japan, England, Italy, New Zealand. After decades of writing about the US, has your view of the country changed in ways that you wouldn’t have expected say, in the early 1980s, when Blue Highways came out? Martin Naparsteck: All of your books have been about the United States or some part of it, and you’ve visited every county in the country. Heat-Moon lives near Columbia, Missouri, and he has just finished a novel. In the three decades between Blue Highways and Writing Blue Highways, there were six other books, including PrairyErth, River-Horse, Columbus in the Americas, Roads to Quoz, and Here, There, Elsewhere. The writing of the book was fraught with frustration, disappointment, rejection, and other emotions faced by the unknown writer. ![]() ![]() William Least Heat-Moon’s newest book, Writing Blue Highways, tells “The Story of How a Book Happened.” That book, Blue Highways, remained on The New York Times bestseller list for forty-two weeks in 1983–84, and is still in print. Woman is pointlessly defined as nonman, or moon as nonsun, or chicken as nonserpent. One of the basic principles of elementary logic is the uselessness of defining a thing by what it is not. ![]()
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