Arts & Entertainment

Brad Herzog

WTTW News | August 5, 2010, 7:00 pm

A Chicago-born writer jumps in his RV and seeks out the answers to life's questions by stopping in towns named after Greek mythology. We'll find out what the author of Turn Left at the Trojan Horse: A Would-Be Hero's American Odyssey learned along the way.

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