NPR's Scott Simon talks with Amor Towles about his latest novel, The Lincoln Highway. Set in 1954, it's about a teenager, his younger brother and a road trip that goes awry.

The Lincoln Highway is a joyride.Amor Towles' new Great American Road Novel tails four boys — three 18-year-olds who met in a juvenile reformatory, plus a brainy 8-year-old — as they set out ...

In “The Lincoln Highway” Towles follows three teenage boys and an 8-year-old as they travel along the Lincoln Highway from Morgen, Nebraska, to Manhattan in 1954.

Duchess, the felonious foil to law-abiding Emmett, does not open Amor Towles’ new novel, “The Lincoln Highway,” with those words. But they capture the essence of this old-fashioned, ...

For most travelers “road trip” brings to mind a vehicle journey in which the destination is less important than the experience of getting there. A leisurely drive along Route 66, ...

He joined us to talk about his latest work, “The Lincoln Highway,” also a bestselling novel, which began for Towles a full twenty years before its publication with a simple initial image: ...

It’s that sepia-tinted tension between aspiration and reality that fuels Amor Towles’s gorgeously crafted new novel. Set in that same month, “The Lincoln Highway” charts the cross-country ...

Amor Towles has transported readers to a hotel in a changing Russia ("A Gentleman in Moscow") and the roads of the U.S. in the 1950's ("The Lincoln Highway," a Read With Jenna pick).For his next ...

NPR's Scott Simon talks with Amor Towles about his latest novel, The Lincoln Highway. Set in 1954, it's about a teenager, his younger brother and a road trip that goes awry.

Amor Towles has transported readers to a hotel in a changing Russia ("A Gentleman in Moscow") and the roads of the U.S. in the 1950's ("The Lincoln Highway," a Read With Jenna pick). For his next ...