Well, I’ve read it! You begin by describing it as “a comedy philosophy book about what dating and loving is like now, in an era that we thought was the end of patriarchy (but we now know is at least five hundred years away from that) and at the beginning of an age where robots do all our dating for us.” So we’ll start with an easy question: How do we dismantle the patriarchy? My main feeling is that everyone at work keeps apologizing for not having read my book yet, and I have to keep on saying that it’s not out yet so it’s fine. Along the way, she meets new friends on their own personal quests, learns to cope with abstinence while missing the comforts of home, and comes to understand the limits-and possibilities-of going to nature to prove to yourself and your Instagram followers that you are, in fact, free.Hi Blythe! How are you feeling about the book? Borrowing her midwestern stepfather’s Prius, she heads west to the loop of megapopular parks, over to the ocean and down the Pacific Coast Highway, and, in a feat of spectacularly bad timing, through the southwestern desert in the middle of July.
To fill in the literary gaps and quench her own sense of adventure, Roberson quits her day job and sets off on a Great American Road Trip to visit America’s national parks.Īmerica the Beautiful? is a hilarious trip into the mind of one of the millennial generation’s funniest writers. But why does it seem like all those canonical travel narratives are written by white men who have no problems, who decide to go to the desert only to see what having problems feels like? Canonical American travel writers have long celebrated the road trip as the epitome of freedom. There are only so many Mary Oliver poems you can read about being free and only so many times you can listen to Joni Mitchell’s travel album Hejira before you, too, are itching to take off.
We’ll talk national parks and eco-tourism, debate roadside snacks and freeway music mixes, and ask big questions, like “Is one really free if one must post pictures of one’s freedom on social media?” Hitch a ride with Alta Live for this not-to-miss event!īlythe Roberson is a comedian, a humor writer, and the author of How to Date Men When You Hate Men and America the Beautiful? She has written for the New Yorker, New York magazine, Esquire, and the NPR quiz show Wait Wait… Don’t Tell Me! Roberson, a comedian, humor writer, and borrower of Priuses, joins Alta Live to discuss her new book, America the Beautiful?, a guffaw-inducing romp through some of the country’s most popular destinations. Blythe Roberson’s hilarious new book will make you reconsider everything you thought you knew about road trips.
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