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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.

Friday, December 12, 2014

Montreal Noir: Station 10



There's a lot of talk, and useful venting, about police and policing this month. Just heard the Brooklyn Borough President (and former cop) talking on NPR about being beaten and kicked by cops when he was a young African-American guy.
Many thanks to Coolopolis for the heads-up on Station 10, director Michael Scott's remarkable National Film Board insider documentary on the cops at Station 10, Montreal's tough downtown precinct. It was filmed in 1971 so it is also a vivid portrait of that era. Stoned Israeli hippies, a sick lion, cops hassling blacks, a horrifying biker gang rape scene....the Naked City, vraiment. This is Montreal before Cirque de Soleil.














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