RED MEAD NOTEBOOK, 1999
File — Box: 132, Folder: 16
Scope and Contents
This notebook has: 1.) Several pages of phone messages. 2.) 6 pages of dialogue for my script on Che Guevara written for producers Peter Davis and Bill Panzer. 3.) A 5-page autobiography written for Daryl Black, a photographer, who published a photo/essay book of her photographs of New Mexicans with Sunstone Press in 2002. Her book Is called: A Place Like No Other. 4.) A July 7, 1999 scribbled forward to the Holt reprint of my novel The Magic Journey. 5.) A 5-page author's note written July 17, 1999 for a reprint of my non-fiction photo-essay, The Last Beautiful Days of Autumn. 6.) A 14-page first draft of an essay for a collection put out by Francis Ford Coppola's Zoetrope All-Story. The essay, about my Hollywood career, is called "To Make a Long Story Short." The Zoetrope collection was published in 2000. 7.) A 4-page essay I wrote on August 18, 1999, about climbing Wheeler Peak near Taos. "Into Pretty Thin Air" was published in the Taos Horse Fly on November 15, 1999. 8.) A 3-page sarcastic riff about my fatigue with environmental do-gooders slated for my essay "An American Child Supreme." 9.) A 1-page riff called "Economics 101" meant to be the start of a novel about killing the buffalo, a book I've always wanted to write, using eradication of the buffalo as a metaphor for capitalism gone amok.
Dates
- 1999
Language of Materials
From the Collection:
English
Access Restrictions
The collection is open for research, however, researchers must sign consent form prior to gaining access to materials. Calavera drawings, proofs, and etchings as well as "little diaries" (Boxes 14, 125, 126, 129, 142) are housed in high security and may require up to 24 hours for retrieval. Enlarged photocopies and typed transcriptions of "little diaries" in Box 142 are located in Box 184.
Extent
From the Collection: 184 boxes (172 cu. ft.)
Repository Details
Part of the UNM Center for Southwest Research & Special Collections Repository
Contact:
University of New Mexico Center for Southwest Research & Special Collections
University Libraries, MSC05 3020
1 University of New Mexico
Albuquerque NM 87131
505-277-6451
University of New Mexico Center for Southwest Research & Special Collections
University Libraries, MSC05 3020
1 University of New Mexico
Albuquerque NM 87131
505-277-6451