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PHONE MESSAGES, 2007

 File — Box: 133

Scope and Contents

211 pages. I gave a few talks in Taos this year, and did one outside gig, interviewing Martín Espada for the Lannan Foundation on stage in Santa Fe. Otherwise, I stayed quiet and stayed at home. A new novel, The Empanada Brotherhood, was published by Chronicle Books. Otherwise, I kept hiking, plodding along on my Spoon Mountain novel that ultimately segued into a short-story published by Orion Magazine.

There are many pages of phone messages, but, again, they're mostly from a small band of longtime friends. Since I didn't have e-mail (and still don't in 2011), there were few people from the "outside world" getting in touch with me.

Some identities: Lorena Oropeza, writer, professor, editor of Enriqueta Vásquez book I did forward to; Dori Hurlburt, reporter for Taos News; Brianna Smith, editor, Chronicle books, asst to Jay Schaefer; Harrison Starr, screenwriter, friend of Leo Garen, helped get Leo's ashes and affects back from Columbia after suicide; Susie Bright, writer about American erotica; John Brandi, NM poet from El Rito; Jason Yurcic, Burque poet; Fred Robbins, Taos realtor; Janey Carillo, Taos realtor; Bonnie Zirkel, Taos realtor; Yolanda Nava, NM Community Foundation; Max Martínez, Taos Soil & Conservation; Bob Fitch, Taos photographer, hiker; Jennifer Sahn, editor, Orion Magazine; Chuck Kennedy, old Hamilton friend; Billy Hayes, author of Midnight Express; Erin Halcomb, writer for High Country News; Susan Biggs, ex-wife of Leo Garen; Lisa Law, NM photographer (noted for '60s fotos); George Sibley, Gunnison writer, head of Headwaters Conference; Solange Le Boucher, Taos massage therapist; Brian Long, S.Fe wildlife artist, biologist; Tom Bonner, prof Xavier University in N. Orleans; Theron Horton, Taos activist for Orion Magazine; Barry Lopez, environmental writer, activist; Kimi Green, NM Community Foundation; Shirley Jacobsen, S.Fe Antiquarian Booksellers; Martín Espada, poet, essayist, prof at UMass Amherst; Christie Davis, Lannan Foundation S.Fe; Lexy Nichols (Alexandra Nichols, my niece); Perry Knowlton, my Curtis Brown agent for 3 decades, died July 6; John Randall, bookseller, who helped arrange my archives to UNM; Arthur Blaustein, activist, prof at UC in Berkeley; Pamela Roberts, documentary filmmaker, Georgia public TV; Peter Handel, writers' publicist, Berkeley, CA; Jeff Conant, writer, enviro activist; Susan Salter Reynolds, book reviewer, L.A. Times; Jo Chapman, Lannan Foundation, S.Fe; Bill DeBuys, NM author, activist; Dwight Smith (Yvonne Keefe), wildlife biologist, Ft. Collins, CO. Blue binder.

Dates

  • 2007

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
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Albuquerque NM 87131
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