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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, March 5, 2015

Anti-Infotainment: the 1957 Chevrolet Station Wagon & Autoliterate Book-of-the-Year winner


Weather report from Michael Moore, on San Francisco Bay:
"Well damn, it IS so cold here a person has to put on a [light] jacket over their sweatshirt to walk comfortably along the water in the morning, but by afternoons, t-shirt weather, a guy can ride his bike around town and turn up stuff like this... somewhat rotten '57 Chev on the jetty [I like the seagull and the furry dice in the first one, but that second pic REALLY gives a sense of our ambience...] yesterday; that would be Mount Diablo in the distance beyond the refineries of Martinez ... "--MSM
As our Texan-Quebecois friend, The Idiosyncratic Gearhead, says: Friends don't let friends use infotainment; neither the word, the concept, nor the hard- and software. 
In that spirit we're happy to announce the winner of this year's Anti-Infotainment Prize as Autoliterate's Book of the Year for 2014: Earl Swift's auto-biography of a '57 Chevy wagon 




1 comment:

  1. That IS THE car! Damn, how did I miss the connection...great book, too.

    M

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