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.

Tuesday, January 10, 2017

1954 Chevrolet Bel Air: William Christenberry photograph

William Christenberry photograph. early 1970s. Somewhere in Alabama--probably Hale County?
"All of these elements—growing up in Alabama and appreciating the beauty of the landscape, as well as its complicated history—came together for him when he discovered Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, written by James Agee and Walker Evans. It made him look at his home with new eyes, and see that this place, this landscape, this architecture he so loved, was a subject and source for his artistic practice...Christenberry used the Agee and Evans book, his photographs and drawings, along with his knowledge of Hale County, to create a series of paintings of old and forgotten structures, beginning with the tenant houses..." (from the Birmingham Museum of Art website)
Walker EvansPost Office, Sprott, Alabama, 1936

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