The great American overnight Greyhound

For a creative non-fiction podcast project earlier this year, I wrote about Greyhound buses and the twenty hours I spent on one in the summer of 2017. You can hear my dulcet tones below, if you're so inclined.

"Greyhound buses carry so much irresistible cultural baggage - at least for non-Americans travelling America. Robert Johnson's 'old evil spirit' gets a Greyhound bus and rides. Kerouac, face a bus window blur, juts his bottom lip over a notebook. Cowboy Joe Buck, transistor radio in hand, travels from Texas to New York City looking for a better life. Simon & Garfunkel's Cathy is looking for America, with a pack of cigarettes and Mrs Wagner's pies, 'laughing on the bus, playing games with the faces'. And when you ride a Greyhound bus in real life, it's the faces that stay with you ..."