In 2001, anthropology professor Robert Leonard began moonlighting
as a cabdriver; "Yellow Cab" is a portrait of the city he found as
he drove the streets of nighttime Albuquerque, picking up everyone
from business people and drunken college kids to hookers and drug
dealers. In this mixed bag of rich vignettes and interludes of
poetry, Leonard offers sharp insights into the workings of the
hidden world of an American city after dark.
"With an ethnographer's eye for fine details and a writer's ear
for words, Robert Leonard's portraits of Albuquerque's cabdrivers
and their passengers ring every bit as true as the writings of
Joseph Mitchell and Joseph Liebling about varieties of life in New
York City. Thoughtful, compelling, and irresistibly
authentic."--Keith H. Basso, Regents Professor of Anthropology,
University of New Mexico
"Highly entertaining! . . . Hop aboard a bright yellow Crown Vic
and buckle up for a nighttime journey seen through the eyes of a
cabbie. You will be the 'fly on the window' as you witness the
comical, bizarre, touching, and sometimes painful antics of human
nature."--Mike Trujillo, Yellow Cab driver
Listen to the May 17 interview with Robert Leonard on WSUI-AM,
The Talk of Iowa. (Scroll down to find May 17 on the calendar.)
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