If I Was a Highway

In this collection, its title borrowed from a Butch Hancock song, the essays switch lanes withHancock's evocative black-and-white photographs. Slowing down to take notice of a makeshiftshrine in the Texas Panhandle or zipping along the New York Thruway before dawn, Venturacaptures the details that make us think profoundly about work, music, poverty, beauty, ourhome on the planet and in the universe. About volcanoes and the Very Large Array. Aboutfriends and companions. About gods and goddesses and God.