L. Doctorow People Quotations

So what this is is a 'road novel.' Eventually entire civilization (in the South) had been uprooted and people found security only in movement, ... That interested me enormously ... A friend from New Orleans, he said when he read the book, 'This is like Hurricane Katrina.'

History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth.