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Ted Conover, Rollin Nowhere: Riding the Rails With America's Hoboes (Vintage, 2001) Award winning writer and journalist Ted Conover was a 24-year-old senior at Amherst College when hit the rails to ride trains with America's hoboes, gathering material for his anthropology thesis. For months, Conover dressed like a hobo, slept like a hobo, ate like a hobo, and smelled like a hobo. When he left the tracks a couple of months later, he wrote the first book to look at the subculture of hoboes from within. Barbara Shulgasser wrote for the New York Times Book Review: Conover's adventures translate well into print, and Rolling Nowhere is so vivid that every few pages the urge to clack the dust from one's own clothes is almost irresistible. (March 4, 1984, Sunday, Section 7; Page 22, Column 1; Book Review Desk Rolling Nowhere is more than an anthropological research project; it is a showcase of reporting and first-person story telling all journalists should strive for. Conover's stints on the tracks prove that there are no limits to what journalists can do to get closer to their sources¡ªand that there are no limits to how close you can get to your sources. Conover is a true inspiration to get out in the world, and explore, explore, explore! MORE: Amazon (book synopsis and short reader reviews) Barnes & Noble (reader reviews and links to reviews published in print) Conover's personal Web site, a collection of articles, reviews and interviews by him and about him Book Reporter review |
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