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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, June 4, 2014

Charlotte NC: Granddaddy's 1978 GMC C10


Often when I come across a clean old original machine, I learn it's been passed down through the family, maybe for 2 or 3 generations. Like last week's 1960 Pontiac Ventura, up in Maine. I'm teaching screenwriting this week in the MFA program at Queens University, Charlotte. It's very green here, and warm. The school is in the middle of Myers Park, a lush, bankerish neighborhood. They sure go in for "traditional" and faux traditional architecture here in the South. Columns, up the wazoo... columns everywhere. Athens was never like this. Stately mansions, etc., all trying to look old money. But this town is a banking center so I guess a lot of the money is fresh. Anyway, walking along Selwyn Avenue yesterday with a couple of poets, Jon Pineda and Nick Lantz, and headed for Thai food, we came across this wonderful orange truck. The owner said it had been his grandfather's. Clean as a whistle, except the traditional C10 rust spots in the fender corners and on the leading edge of the hood. Love that orange though my iPhone camera read it as mostly red. 



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