Box 131
Container
Contains 60 Results:
RED MEAD NOTEBOOK, JOY BELONGS TO THE RELENTLESS, 1987-1988
File — Box: 131, Folder: 51
Scope and Contents
This Red Mead Notebook contains: 1.) A few pages of notes for my novel, Great Feelings of Love. 2.) 1 page listing individuals and the newspapers that should get review copies of my 1987 novel, American Blood. 3.) A 4-page riff for my Hamilton class's 25th reunion that was published in our reunion yearbook, June 1987, and titled "An Exquisite Place to Start." 4.) 93 pages of brief humorous scenes to accompany photographs of my second wife, Juanita, in a photo/essay book called Joy Belongs to...
Dates:
1987-1988
BORN TO ATTACK, June 1987
File — Box: 131, Folder: 52
Scope and Contents
Here are 27 handwritten notebook pages from June 9, 1987 meetings in New York with Born To Attack producers Philip and Mary Ann Hobel and CBS executives. They want it "Shorter, faster, louder, funnier." (See BORN TO ATTACK screenplays and their concurrent CORRESPONDENCE elsewhere in these archives.)
Dates:
June 1987
DEMOCRACY/BUTTERFLY, 1988
File — Box: 131, Folder: 53
Scope and Contents
This folder contains: 1.) 4 envelopes with scribbles including a September 28 diary of grouse hunting. 2.) 4 handwritten pages dated October 3, 4, and 7, 1988 (when I started this novel called Democracy in Action, then retitled it The Voice of the Butterfly) describing Upper Ranchitos Road in Taos (which became Willow Road in the novel) and the Rio Grande river. (This folder and the following five folders can be cross-referenced with DEMOCRACY IN ACTION and THE VOICE OF THE BUTTERFLY...
Dates:
1988
DEMOCRACY/BUTTERFLY, PLOT, BANK SCAMS, 1988-1990
File — Box: 131, Folder: 54
Scope and Contents
A GREAT folder if I do say so myself. It contains: 1.) 9 handwritten pages outlining the Butterfly novel's scam. 2.) 25 handwritten pages which are a dictionary of bank scams and skullduggery to be included in the novel. Also one handwritten page listing board members of Suicide City's (my fictional town's) S & Ls. This stuff is fun.
Dates:
1988-1990
DEMOCRACY/BUTTERFLY, BANK LINGO AND COMPLEX DEALS, 1988-1990
File — Box: 131, Folder: 55
Scope and Contents
There's only 7 typed pages here about development deals and real estate scams, but they are rich with the arcane complexity of doing deals. Rest of the folder has newspaper stories of financial scams from 1989 to 1995, and also 75 Xeroxed pages (with many underlinings) from Penny Lernoux's book, In Banks We Trust. Juicy research material for Democracy in Action/The Voice of the Butterfly!
Dates:
1988-1990
DEMOCRACY/BUTTERFLY, DICTIONARY OF BANKING TERMS, 1988-1992
File — Box: 131, Folder: 56
Scope and Contents
Another WONDERFUL folder, take my word. Includes: 1.) 7 pages of handwritten banking terms and deals and noting of pages in an early draft of the novel where they occur. When I had used them in the book I crossed them out (you can still read them). 2.) 36 typed pages of a dictionary of banking terms and financial slang I used in the novel eventually published in 2001.
Dates:
1988-1992
DEMOCRACY/BUTTERFLY, NOVEL NOTES, 1987-1989
File — Box: 131, Folder: 57
Scope and Contents
This folder contains 100 pages (and 3 scribbled envelopes) of typed notes for the novel. Often 8 to 12 notes on a page. Some bits are from real Taos incidents and personalities that applied to the novel. Rest of notes are ideas for the novel. A good sample of how I prepare for a book.
Dates:
1987-1989
DEMOCRACY/BUTTERFLY, CHAPTER WRAPUPS, 1988-1989
File — Box: 131, Folder: 58
Scope and Contents
Here are 26 pages of typed notes with chapter-by- chapter descriptions. I think they derive from my first working draft of Democracy (Butterfly) in 1988-1989. (See DEMOCRACY IN ACTION, BOX 59.) This was an attempt to understand the book I was writing. Includes many Post-Its, including some indicating where Chelsey McFarland's TINY NOVELS should be inserted in the manuscript.
Dates:
1988-1989
DEMOCRACY/BUTTERFLY, TINY NOVELS, 1989-1992
File — Box: 131, Folder: 59
Scope and Contents
This folder has 3 handwritten Tiny Novels by Chelsey McFarland (including one written front-and-back on the original file folder): "Garbage," "Diet Pet Food in Ethiopia," and "Glut." Total of 11 handwritten pages plus handwritten front and back of folder. (See all of CHELSEY MCFARLAND'S TINY NOVELS in BOX 70, FOLDER 7.) There's also a list of vocabulary words, and a list of characters at an early Butterfly meeting comprising 4 pages. Plus 2 pink mimeo flyers for "Women Against Racism."
Dates:
1989-1992
NOVEL ENVELOPE NOTES, 1990-1991
File — Box: 131, Folder: 60
Scope and Contents
Folder contains 23 envelopes with stuff scribbled on them from 1990-1991. Also some newspaper year-in-review wrapups for 1990 as background for a book set in 1990. And 1 typed page of novel notes.
Dates:
1990-1991