Majestic Speedlube

Majestic Speedlube is a novel with its boot on the gas—a cacophonous vision of the USA as seen from the cab of a hard-working compact white pick-up truck.

Kathryn Scanlan’s Majestic Speedlube follows Happy and Early, couriers eking out a living driving unshippable objects—a taxidermied bear, a two-hundred pound crystal, a custom tombstone—across the country in their “club-cab bed-capped” rig. The resulting linguistic joy ride, powered by Scanlan’s signature live-wire style, is a hectic confl...