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We're happy to have Sandra
Alcosser and Pete Fromm

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here as our guest writers.

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Sandra and Pete are the
winners of the New Writers--

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New Voices of the West,
Arizona, Montana exchange.

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The first reader tonight
will be Pete Fromm.

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Pete comes to us from
Great Falls, Montana.

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He's in addition
to being a writer,

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he's a professional outdoorsman,
and he's a contributing editor

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to Gray's Sporting Journal.

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He sold over 25 stories
to outdoor magazines

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and literary quarterlies, and
his book of stories The Tall

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Uncut came out in the spring.

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The stories arise in
a Western landscape,

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but as Pete has
said, they might be

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about hunting or fishing
or the wilderness,

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but they're really
not about that at all.

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"I write less about
the experience

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than I do about the people
passing through the stories.

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I break the stereotypes.

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I write about people
trying to communicate."

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Pete has two books
coming out in 1993.

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Monkey Tag and a nonfiction
account of seven months

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spent in the wilderness.

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That book is tentatively
titled Out From Paradise,

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and one chapter of the book was
the winner of the Sierra Club's

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nature writing award.

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Please help me welcome him
here today, Pete Fromm.

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