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PHB

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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.

Wednesday, January 6, 2016

Germans & Indians & Jews & CARRY ME & Karl May

My new novel CARRY will be out in US (Pantheon) and Canada (House of Anansi) in February 2016. It's an unusual love story set in Germany in the 1920s and 1930s, when everything's going to hell. Also set on El Llano Estacado, in West Texas and New Mexico. Like my first 2 novels, aspects of story and setting were inspired by family history. Images and settings in the photographs below were important to the writing. But, like my other books, KARIN is definitely a novel. Fiction. The New York Times just posted a video all about German fascination with the Wild West, which is one of the themes explored the book. More about CARRY ME here.











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  1. stephSeptember 12, 2014 at 9:52 AM

    I'm reading Travelling Light now and the stories are superb. My kind of writing. I'm very excited about the news of this new novel!

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    1. autoliterateJanuary 11, 2016 at 8:51 PM

      Steph, have they got an advance copy of CARRY ME (new novel, comes out February) to you?

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