[stylist] Wild Velvet essay

[Bridgit Pollpeter]

Shelley,

Wild Velvet is a beautiful essay and definitely worthy of it's
first-place distinction for the 2011 Writers' Division writing contest
as well as for gracing the pages of Slate & Style. I loved this essay
the moment I read it, but I want to point out that Burns Taylor wrote
the essay.

Sincerely,
Bridgit Kuenning-Pollpeter, editor, Slate & Style
Read my blog at:
http://blogs.livewellnebraska.com/author/bpollpeter/
 
"History is not what happened; history is what was written down."
The Expected One- Kathleen McGowan

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Date: Sun, 1 Jan 2012 22:55:51 -0800
From: "Shelley J. Alongi" <QueenofBells at roadrunner.com>
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Subject: Re: [stylist] what I've been reading...
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That is a great list. I don't spend much time reading these days, at
least 
not as much as I used to, but I still have a hunger for information
which 
translates into many things. I have started making more time for books 
lately and not always about the railroad. I've always been fascinated by

people's stories as I've discovered so when I pick up a book lately I
try to 
make it a biography. The latest one I'm reading is "Grisha" by Anne
Bartley 
about Gregor Patigorsky the russian cellist. Her telling of the story is
in 
Gregor's pov and is quite well written, evoking lots of images. Instead
of 
just chronicling events she explains them as if we were witnessing them,

quoting from his letters. I haven't read any novels lately, but I'm sure
I 
will. Since I've inherited a scanner and some OCR software I scan Trains

magazine and read that in fits and starts. But I do enjoy cuddling up
with 
some kitties and a book.

Lately I've been taking my Braille copy of "Slate and Style" with me, 
reading bits an dpieces here. By the way Shawn, I love your story "Wild 
Velvet" I haven't finished it yet but it's a very nice story.

Happy New Year!