The NYT isn't too keen on "Cross Country," a travel narrative/trip memoir by Robert Sullivan. The problem? Nothing much happens on Sullivan's interstate journey, leaving the author to muse about the meaning of the road in between bouts with the luggage rack.
DULLARD TAKE: Sullivan should have done the trip Dullard-style, with a drive-through visit to Pie Town, N.M., a fist-fight at White Sands National Monument and a triumphant visit to the Vegas casinos. Then he would have the material he needed.
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