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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, January 12, 2017

DAF truck, The Netherlands. And Ti-Jean Kerouac's ON THE ROAD



from Guido Goluke, Dutch translator of Kerouac's On the Road. "I caught this DAF traveller truck on a very cold training run just north of Amsterdam. I have never seen a DAF model like this and suspect it is a converted army vehicle. As the plate on the back suggests, it was used to explore the North Western Territories of Canada. Seems like a cold exercise in a cab without proper windows. And protection against mosquitoes, midges and other nasties either!"


Hey, you knew Jack was  French Canadian, right? Jean-Louis Kerouac, 
"Ti-Jean", (trans. "Johnny") born in Lowell, Mass. Like most New England textile towns, Lowell had a big population of immigrants down from the rocky farms of Quebec & New Brunswick.

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