Abstract
Although this is a review of Judy Kalman's Writing on the Plaza: Mediated Literacy Practices Among Scribes and Clients in Mexico City, I begin byway of a detour through the world of contemporary film. Not long before reading Writing on the Plaza, I had seen David Lynch's film The Straight Story (Sweeney & Lynch, 1999). As I read Writing on the Plaza, my mind kept racing back and forth between the book and the film. The Straight Story is a documentary written in an ethnographic style reminiscent of pioneering educational ethnographies such as Shirley Brice Heath's Ways With Words. Based on a real event in the life of a real person, the film chronicles Alvin Straight's 6-week trek across parts of Iowa and Wisconsin on a 1966 John Deere lawnmower to visit his
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