Kerouac wrote urgently about the need to "go go go", and here is a rare opportunity to see the manuscript of one of the few books in the western canon that imitates the means of going – the On the Road scroll, the book as a road, paved in paper.
Rankin described his latest Rebus book as "a road movie set up and down the A9, Stirling to Perth, up to and past Inverness to the Black Isle".
Because of its emphasis on practical solutions, not antisocial excess, the book was "a road map for careful readers who wanted to remake the existing world.
This list of references, titles and interviews that influence a new book is a road map for scholars and other readers, enabling them to follow the trail of supporting evidence for theories and controversial points.
As a former Agatha Christie addict who once subjected her mother to the nonstop playing of the "Murder in Mesopotamia" audio book during a road trip to Vermont, I've found that the Larsson craze has reawakened my love for mysteries.
But he saw in the Lipsky book a classic road movie: two headstrong personalities locked in tight spaces, hashing out the American condition as manifestations of it rolled by the car window.
By 1918, the Camino Sierra had been included in the Blue Book, an early road atlas of the United States.
In some ways, the book is almost a road map for the league over the last four decades.
(Dr. Sexton is distilling his own ruminations into a book, "Baseball as a Road to God," which will be published in early 2013).
That's partly because their consequences propel the plot of this book, which combines a road novel and a crime novel with a chronicle of a dying town.
Barrow's real strength was as a driver who maneuvered through multiple states with reckless speed, and Guinn's engaging book reads like a road story — two kids from the Dallas slums in a fast car, headed to nowhere good.
