South Saskatchewan Truck Herd, Pronghorns, Churches and CARRY ME

From our man in south Saskatchewan, the painter Alex Emond: "I took a little ,much needed, break last week and went out to Sask. for a few days . Work in Banff has been a little too steady , more like relentless , but that's how it goes sometimes , so you make hay while the sun shines and plan your getaways . It was cold and windy out there but still great to drive a few more of those endless roads and learn more about the area . I stopped on a hill northwest of Wood Mountain and glassed around and spied a church way off on a range road . Quite unusual ... Russian Orthodox , built a hundred years ago...

"The antelope were just off the same road . They have to be the fastest creatures in the western hemisphere; when they decide to bolt, they just fly...

"There is a junkyard on the edge of Wood Mountain with a tantalizing row of beat up old stuff . A few old trucks that I assume are for sale . The country is getting picked over but it's a long way from being picked clean . There are always posters for auctions pinned up in stores , restaurants and a person could spend a part of every week chasing those down . I've only been to a couple ... interesting way to waste an afternoon . 

      I picked up your book in Cowtown on my way to Ponteix. Fantastic. Can't get it out of my head . Cheers"--AE

Autoliterate: From a review of CARRY ME in New York Times this week:“Behrens captures his narrator’s naïveté and the casual anti-Semitism of the times with great skill and intelligence . . . as true an observation about human nature as there is.”

—Dennis Bock, The New York Times Book Review (Sunday, March 20, 2016)

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/20/books/review/carry-me-by-peter-behrens.html