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Riding Toward Everywhere, by William T. Vollman

“Contempt for my privileged railroad follies may be warranted,” William T. Vollman concedes in the first chapter of “Riding Toward Everywhere” (HarperCollins, 288 pages, $26.95), his account of train-hopping in the contemporary American West. He knows that a fortunate man who does for kicks what a less fortunate man does out of desperation is suspect, and he wants us to know that he knows. But he also knows that riding the railcars as a recreational hobo “gives me pleasure and makes me braver,” and so he’s willing to risk seeming a “dilettante or a hypocrite” if his writing can do for us what his travels have done for him.” Read the review at the New York Sun.

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