Preface Acknowledgements Columbus to Columbia (via St Louis): Separating Fact from Fiction University City to Clayton (via Memphis): Looking for a Publisher in Spring Clayton to New Orleans (via Iowa City): Academic Blues vs. 'American Blues' New Orleans to Hollywood (via Acapulco): Ma?ana Es Otro D?a Hollywood to Rome (via Chicago): The 'Catastrophe' of His Success Rome to Rome (via nearly everywhere else): 'Comfortable little mercies' New York to...