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20-21st c. art structured around journeys along American roads/rail lines

"Chair Car," Edward Hopper (1960)

Films 

United States of America by James Benning (1975)

No sex last night by Sophie Calle (1996)

The Brown Bunny by Vincent Gallo (2003)

Documentaries 

Park Avenue: Money, Power, and the American Dream (2012)

Oral histories

American Journey: The Times of Robert Kennedy by Jean Stein (1970)

Division Street: America by Studs Terkel (1967)

Newsletter

Pedestrian by Alex Wolfe (2019-present) 

Photography

Paul Fusco's photographs from RFK's funeral train for LOOK magazine (1968)

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"New York Corner (Corner Saloon),"
Edward Hopper (1913)

In L. Rust Hills’ [former fiction editor at Esquire] book about writing fiction he quotes another editor who said the ideal structure for a short story is just somebody walking down Fifth Avenue. Anything can happen while you’re walking down Fifth Avenue. You get a call from your ex-wife, you see a guy get killed, but you’re still always walking down Fifth Avenue; from 50th to 45th. There’s that kind of thing moving it through. Short fiction is always a very simple movement. It’s usually just one movement. And that’s what I like about it. In a longer story you might take a turn into the Diamond District or something. But in a short fiction, it’s just walking down Fifth Avenue.

- Patrick in Interview [x]