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We own a 1975 GMC Sierra Grande 15 in Maine and a 1986 Chevrolet Custom Deluxe 10 in West Texas. Also a pair of 1997 Volvo 850 wagons. Average age in the fleet is 28 years--we're recycling. I've published 3 novels: THE LAW OF DREAMS (2006), THE O'BRIENS (2012), and CARRY ME (2016). Also 2 short story collections: NIGHT DRIVING(1987) and TRAVELLING LIGHT (2013). More of my literary life is at www.peterbehrens.org I was a Fellow at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study for 2012-13. I'm an adjunct professor at Colorado College and in the MFA program at Queens University of Charlotte. In 2015-16 I was a Fellow at Harvard University's Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. The Autoliterate office is in Car Talk Plaza in Harvard Square, 2 floors above Dewey Cheatem & Howe. SUBSCRIBE TO THE AUTOLITERATE DAILY EMAIL by hitting the button to the right.

Wednesday, May 11, 2011


Hey Peter, this old blue F-100 is outta luck if it thinks anybody from Frostad's Garage is going to fix it. This is Kincaid, Saskatchewan, three towns east of Ponteix, on the road to Assiniboia. You go by Aneroid, then Hazenmore, Kincaid, Woodrow, and Lafleche. Aneroid is the closest to ghosting out. Lafleche is due south of Gravelbourg, which has a French-Canadian Catholic heritage. Ponteix is semi-lively, with three or four hundred residents, a grocery store (Sculley's), a motel, a bakery/café, a Francophone radio station, a French-language elementary school, and an English high school. Takes a while to get used to the pace, but there is a pace. Still, birdsong is probably the single biggest contributor to the noise pollution problem in south Saskatchewan. ALEX

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