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. By Amor Towles. Viking. 592 pages. $30. Home is different for 18-year-old Emmett Watson when he returns from a juvenile prison sentence for accidentally killing a bully in a ...

The Lincoln Highway, the first transcontinental road in the U.S.—open for business in 1913—has none of the pop-culture force of Route 66. It didn’t launch a catchy song, a television series ...

Amor Towles, the author of the bestseller "A Gentleman in Moscow," returns with "The Lincoln Highway" (Viking), a period story of four youngsters who embark on an epic journey from Nebraska to New ...

SHOP LOCAL Amor Towles’s third novel, “The Lincoln Highway,” is at No. 4 in its 13th week on the hardcover fiction list. Here’s a small but notable fact about the former Wall Streeter ...

My new novel, “The Lincoln Highway,” takes place over 10 days in June of 1954, so in anticipation I read a number of American works from the mid-50s including James Baldwin’s “Go Tell It ...

One of several Lincoln Highway exhibits in the Great Platte River Road Archway that spans I-80 outside Kearny, Nebraska. Outdoor exhibits include a replica of an period motel sign.

2. All Fours by Miranda July (Riverhead Books: $29) A woman upends her domestic life in this irreverent and tender novel. 3. Table for Two by Amor Towles (Viking: $32) A collection of stories from ...