Wall to Wall

Like so many of Woolf's odysseys into the heart of America's subcultures, "Wall to Wall" traces a modern Ulysses in reverse: from a West Coast asylum where he works as an attendant to a Boston asylum where he visits his mother, Claude Squires views roadside America from its weak side—the tough underbelly of the Southwest, Tucson, the Rio Grande, Nogales, The Border—before thrusting himself into Okie's sacred shrine, Oklahoma City, and into the staid Eastern Corridor that ends in Boston. Cla...