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Channel 19
Watermelon Slim tour dates, and a special guest in Indiana Feb. 2
Overdriveâs own âLong Haul Paulâ Marhoefer joins Slim at the Feb. 2 performance. Also: The long and short on former owner-op and âIn the Driverâs Seatâ trucking-memoir author Marc Mayfieldâs new work of page-turning detective fiction, âOn Grove Street.â
January 14, 2019
Life
âThe Backhaulâ â excerpting Fred Afflerbachâs âThe Bison & the Butterflyâ novel
This excerpt from Fred Afflerbachâs new âThe Bison & the Butterflyâ comes from the beginning of the second big section of the book, âThe Backhaul,â following 70-year-old small fleet owner-operator Ubi Sunt and his teenage grandson, Jeremy, across their trek from Texas toward Jeremyâs home in Philadelphia.
February 24, 2017
Channel 19
Out now: âThe Bison & the Butterflyâ â rollicking sequel to former owner-operator Fred Afflerbachâs âRoll Onâ novel
A road novel of the classic sort, the new book builds on the foundations laid by its predecessor â Afflerbachâs empathic, often hilarious, moving depiction of two generations of men coming back together through lived experience after separation and loss is a master turn in the literary arts.
February 23, 2017
Channel 19
Truck stop operatorâs new novel set during the âGreat Warâ
Karen Gettert Shoemakerâs âThe Meaning of Namesâ interrogates the reality German-American communities in the U.S. were confronted with following the outbreak of World War I.
May 27, 2014
Channel 19
Excerpting âRoll On,â a novel by Fred Afflerbach
The book is out, owner-operators. And what a book it is, telling the story, as Iâve written here, of owner-operator Ubi Sunt, an old-school âbedbuggerâ and child of the orphan trains facing down in the early 1980s an incoming rush of new faces, new ways of doing business, new pressure from his family to settle [âŚ]
April 17, 2012
Channel 19
Former operatorâs novel immortalizes trail-blazing independents
Fred Afflerbach didnât set out to launch a trucking career when he took a job working for a Bekins Van Lines-affiliated moving company in Austin, Texas, in high school in the 1970s. He caught the fever all the same. âThe owner-operators would come rolling in and the drivers are telling stories and your eyes are [âŚ]
March 13, 2012
Channel 19
Greatwide owner-operator pens one rad read in âCollinstownâ
Greatwide-leased owner-operator Bob Grantham, based in San Antonio, Texas, calls the evocative writing in his literary Western Collinstown an âunintended consequence of being a truck driver.â At least in part, anyway. Out now from Treble Heart Books, the novel follows the intertwining lives of a current and former Texas Ranger just at the outbreak of the [âŚ]
March 18, 2011
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