The Digital Reader

Each month the University of Chicago Press give away 1 of their titles as an ebook. This month’s free ebook is  Spiral Jetta, a journal of one woman’s pursuit of the art of the American landscape.

Erin Hogan hit the road in her Volkswagen Jetta and headed west from Chicago in search of the monuments of American land art: a salty coil of rocks, four hundred stainless steel poles, a gash in a mesa, four concrete tubes, and military sheds filled with cubes. Her journey took her through the states of Utah, Nevada, New Mexico, Arizona, and Texas. It also took her through the states of anxiety, drunkenness, disorientation, and heat exhaustion. Spiral Jetta is a chronicle of this journey.

You’ll need to jump through some hoops in order to get the book, so it’s not actually free. It’s also encumbered by DRM, unfortunately.

Click here to visit the UCP website.You’ll need to provide your email address so they can send you a link.