In his chronicle of walking from Kansas City to Helena, Montana, Patrick Dobson proves that in literature, as in life, there's a fine line between cozy and boring.
The premise of Seldom Seen, Dobson's first book (released in September from the University of Nebraska Press), is promising because it's at once universal and escapist. We've all been -- or known -- the antsy guy who's uninspired by his blue-collar job and knows he's got precious little time to experience something worthwhile. An
