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

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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.

Monday, November 9, 2015

Mark Cohen and Wilkes-Barre

You know I am interested in looking at things. Especially ordinary things. I mean really looking. That's why I intrigued by Mark Cohen's 1970s street photographs of his hometown, Wilkes-Barre, PA. His  Frame A Retrospective just out from University of Texas Press.
It is a little shocking how skinny kids and adults were in the 1970s just as the tidal waves of hyrdrogenated vegetable oil and super-sized gluttony were about to fatten up the heartland of the US of A.




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