Bus riders are a different breed. Those who have to ride public transportation regularly are usually more jaded than the average citizen, but they also have a knack for finding beauty on both sides of those scratched windows. Jacques Jouet’s My Beautiful Bus, published as part of Dalkey Archive Press’s French Literature Series, is an ode to riding the bus, as well as a must-read for anyone who has sat in one with eyes drifting between the inside of the vehicle and the world outside, ears catching fragments of conversations.
