Why Canterbury Tales Is the Ultimate Road Trip Story
How do we pass the time while traveling from Point A to Point B? What stories do we tell one another, and how do those stories connect?
This is Something Medieval, Something New, a column in which Alice Lesperance considers our culture and her own experiences through the lens of Medieval literature.
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Alice Lesperance is a 27-year-old writer based in North Carolina, where she lives with her wife and their cat, Stevie Nicks. She writes about trauma, (pop)culture and politics. Find her at alicelesperance.com and on twitter @ayelesperance.
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