The Great American Novel made a movie. It has it all, the sports culture, race and gender commentary, capitalist aspirations, success defined to be wealth accumulation and corporate branding as the apotheosis of the soul. There is even an Elvis reference. The route 66 nostalgia gives a sense of loss and hope to a car society, uniquely american, the impending doom of the Great Depression plagues the countryside in which Mack rides in, to the sound of Life Is a…