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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.

Thursday, July 26, 2012

Maine Lobsterboat, 1976 Chevrolet truck

One of the spring rituals was getting our sailboat ready for launching. Scout spends the winter at Bill Grant's boatyard in Sedgwick; when I was slapping on a bottom coat back in June there were still a bunch of lobster boats at the yard, getting ready for action. There's something tuned and form-follows-functional that I admire about the blocky, workaholic lines of the 1976 Chevy truck and the swooping, graceful sheer of a Maine lobsterboat.

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