SOURCE: Review of Road Scholar: Coast to Coast Late in the Century, in the Los Angeles Times Book Review, May 9, 1993, p. 6.

In the following review, Stabiner favorably reviews Codrescu's Road Scholar: Coast to Coast Late in the Century.

National Public Radio commentator and poet Codrescu came to the United States from Romania when he was 19, in 1966, believing, among other things, that dogs in America carry pretzels on their tails (that, from his grandmother). He was quickly disabused of most of his preconceived ideas, but was not fully Americanized until 1990, when television producer Roger Weisberg asked him the question that would change his life: Would you like to drive? More to the point, would Codrescu like to learn and then drive across the country, recording his observations on film and, as it turns out, in print. The author was quite comfortable in his role as eternal passenger, but the...