J.W. Burleson photo / Boquillas del Carmen, Coah.

PHB

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Brooklin, Maine, United States
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.

Sunday, December 15, 2013

WWII Dodge & The Black Rock Desert & Blue Sky

"As an antidote [to Maine winter] here are a couple of shots from outside the salt belt...
...this one being the cab which was all that remained of a WW ii Dodge [right hand drive] documented by a friend of mine in 1970 on a trip north of Pyramid Lake and semi-immortalized by me as an Abandoned Car print in 1973 ["Xenobia Dodge"; http://www.mikesmooreptgs.com/abandoned%20cars/index.html] and the fenders, which I thought I'd use on the '45 Chev but didn't coming from Brian's in American Canyon a couple of years ago...anyway, awhile back, having remembered the Dodge, I discovered the cab was at least still there on the desert so we went down with my flatbed trailer and a comealong one early summer morn and brought it up [as I may have mentioned to you earlier] to the Abandoned Carlife Refuge here on the Smoke Creek...no salt, little rust, but most likely not what you're looking for as the days grow short down east...Hey; weren't you going to Marfa for the holidays?"--from Michael Moore, out in the Black Rock Desert of Nevada.

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