Tons of names in my phones are "Kenny Landlord" and "Mike Electric" or "Pete Do Not Answer" and just realized this is how anglo surnames have always worked

I spoke with a journalist from Haaretz.com about comparisons between hitchhiking in the US and the West Bank—check it out.

Some Texan friends urged me to read his work last March so I dove into Last Picture Show and Lonesome Dove (as well as the other three sequels) during this last year of pandemic isolation. Such textured characters—Augustus McCrae is an all-timer. RIP. nytimes.com/2021/03/26/boo…

PUB DAY: My book Dancing with the Revolution is officially out with UNC Press! You can get 40% off with the code 01DAH40: uncpress.org/book/978146966…. To get a sense of what you would be ordering, here's what I wanted to accomplish & some key takeaway points. THREAD

A few months back I had asked Steven Hyden and The Paranoid Style to write something on this exact topic. Ray Padgett did instead—it was fascinating to get some more context about the concert’s lead up and the on-stage dress/vibe.

Just preordered. Can’t wait to check this out.

Thanks for the shout out @AudioFileMag! I hope everyone gets to enjoy a nice road trip this summer. While doing so, check out Johnny Heller’s voice performance of Roadside Americans.

Check out my new essay!

Thursday, October 7, 4 PM NAU, I will be doing a hybrid talk about my recent book Dancing with the Revolution (UNC Press 2021)! Thanks to Latin American Studies & NAU History Department for the invite and support. RSVP for Zoom info: eepurl.com/hlkK79

Issue 7 of L.A. Times Image is about SURVIVAL. I wrote about my first 100 days of being sick. latimes.com/lifestyle/imag…

Remembering David Bowie with this perfect song choice at the end of "Lost Horizon" (S7:E12) Mad Men

Is interest in hitchhiking as a social phenomenon undergoing a resurgence? Jonathan Purkis' Driving with Strangers (Manchester University Press) Patrick Laviolette's Hitchhiking: Cultural Inroads (Palgrave Macmillan) have arrived in quick succession. What can hitchhiking tell us? adventureuncovered.com/stories/why-hi…

H-Net published Douwe Schipper’s thoughtful review of my book, Roadside Americans recently. It is always fun seeing how different fields within the historical discipline engage with the book.

One of my favorite historians, Jefferson Cowie, writing about one of my favorite song writers.

It’s been surreal to hear Stuff You Should Know talk about my book after years of listening to them cover other topics. Thanks for the shout out, guys. Check out the pod and buy my book while you’re at it. Preferably from UNC Press! Paperback version out in August.