Jack Reid

Writer. Author of Roadside Americans: The Rise and Fall of Hitchhiking in a Changing Nation (UNC Press)—featured on NPR’s 2020 Book Concierge

[Jack Reid @jackreids]

⁦⁦@SmithsonianMag⁩ named Roadside Americans as one of the ten best travel books of the year! Thanks to ⁦@uncpressblog⁩ and my editor ⁦@brndnpr⁩ for the guidance and support. 👍🍾

#books #travel #hitchhike #RoadTrip #twitterstorians https://t.co/Ay29Sgwryq

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@Steven_Hyden Very cool. Wish casting for tonight?

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It’s been surreal to hear @SYSKPodcast 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.

[Stuff You Should Know @SYSKPodcast]

Today we go down the road a bit, thumbs out, to explore the rich history of hitchhiking.

https://t.co/db8x3sgX8p

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@SmittyTweets1 Hang in there. Glad you got a great care team at Northwestern.

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@osirispod Went when was I 20 with some friends. Drove from Illinois. Was incredibly excited but left pretty disappointed at the time. Looking back, I see it as a beautiful disaster of sorts. The band was incredibly vulnerable which was interesting, even if the music was a mess at times.

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@PoetNotRockStar Wrong birthday on this?

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

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@paranoiacs Love it. You into Tom Waits’ Rain Dogs? Curious on your take.

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H-Net published @SchipperDouwe’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.

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@Steven_Hyden @pavement_band I’ll be there in St. Paul, heading over from your alma mater, Eau Claire.

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@ryleywalker Please play Eau Claire. @PabloCenterEC ?

[Adventure Uncovered 🗺 @AdventureUncvrd]

Is interest in hitchhiking as a social phenomenon undergoing a resurgence? @Dr_JPurkis' Driving with Strangers (@ManchesterUP) Patrick Laviolette's Hitchhiking: Cultural Inroads (@Palgrave) have arrived in quick succession. What can hitchhiking tell us? https://t.co/tNOzlWTxwx

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Thanks to @seanplatham and company for making this possible.

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I was invited to speak at the Dylan and the Beats symposium this weekend in Tulsa, OK, which is celebrating the centenary of Kerouac’s birth and the opening of the @bobdylancenter. Pure joy getting to participate with all these wonderful speakers.

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All that time listening to Dylan and reading Beat lit over the years paying off.

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@bridgeburner78 @JasonIsbell Jason Isbell at PK’s in Carbondale, IL.

[Mad Men Quotes @MadMenQts]

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

[Rembert Browne @rembert]

Issue 7 of @latimesimage is about SURVIVAL.

I wrote about my first 100 days of being sick. https://t.co/EDVRK8T3cg

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@kylescanlan At least one person cares.

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@Steven_Hyden So this wasn’t your go-to spot?!