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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.

Saturday, November 18, 2017

Overnight at Walmart: from the NYT

“You’re going to see a lot of folks out here running from something,” said a man who identified himself only as Sunny. He posed with a stuffed animal of an amphibian named Fabian for a portrait in his R.V. in a Walmart parking lot in Asheville, N.C. He added: “For the first time in my life I’m not running from anything. I guess I was running from myself.”
 A piece in the NYT on Walmart's policy of letting people overnight in its parking lots, and the culture that's emerged in that scene.....
Overnight in Walmart Parking Lots: Silence, Solace and Refuge



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