Q: The journey you wrote about in "Blue Highways" was prompted by the breakup of your marriage and the loss of your job. Heat-Moon spoke by phone from Seattle during a book tour. Thankfully, however, even though Heat-Moon often laments a dying rural America, his tone is invariably amiable, never cranky. Sometimes it's a bit overindulgent, as when he veers off the road in sections he titles "digression alerts" or gets overly cute when exploring the letter Q ("Forgive me, quick-witted reader, if this quodlibet to Q has made you querimonious"). Heat-Moon's prose is folksy and lighthearted. (As for "quoz," he defines the word as "referring to anything strange, incongruous, or peculiar. In "Roads to Quoz: An American Mosey" (Little, Brown 581 pages $27.99), his new book that chronicles his adventures, Heat-Moon travels with his wife, who goes by the name Q.
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