Box 136
Container
Contains 62 Results:
BOOK TOUR FOR "ELEGY FOR SEPTEMBER" (THREE), MAY-JULY 1992
File — Box: 136, Folder: 51
Scope and Contents
This folder contains 16 pages of my correspondence with the Harbourfront Reading Series organizers, including Artistic Director Greg Gatenby, in Toronto from October 1991 to June 26, 1992. Also info on Toronto (including a Ride Guide for the city), and a large catalogue/newspaper with photographs of hundreds of authors worldwide who've read at the Harbourfront series. (See my book tour journal/diary and other information listed in previous three folders above.)
Dates:
MAY-JULY 1992
SEPTEMBER 1992
File — Box: 136, Folder: 52
Scope and Contents
54 typed pages mostly about many trips grouse hunting. September 3rd hunt was basis for my essay "The Day Lee Brodsky Died." Many visitors, also. Trout fishing down Hole-in-the-Rock bajada and Rope Trail on the Rio Grande. Wood runs. Talk with El Salvador refugee. Porcupines. Strange dreams. Climbed Tres Orejas mountain. This was one of those years when I was determined to spend as much of September as I could hunting in the mountains and really cleared my schedule all year in order to do so.
Dates:
1956-2007
OCTOBER 1992
File — Box: 136, Folder: 53
Scope and Contents
19 typed pages. Work on my novel, Conjugal Bliss. Photos in mountains. More odd dreams. Taos visitors. Conferences in Tucson and Steamboat Springs. Trout fishing and heart problems. TV interview. Bike stolen. Stove catches fire.
Dates:
1956-2007
SMITHVILLE, TX, MARCH 2-5, 1993
File — Box: 136, Folder: 54
Scope and Contents
My dad retired in 1986 from teaching in Colorado Springs and, in 1987, moved to Smithville, Texas, a small town near Austin, but this is the first time I visited him there. These 10 handwritten pages (and 7 typed-up pages) are my notes. I grilled Pop a lot about my mom, Monique, who had died in 1942.
Dates:
MARCH 2-5, 1993
VALVERDE STREET NEIGHBORHOOD, 34098
File — Box: 136, Folder: 55
Scope and Contents
4 typed pages. This is a description of my daily jogging routine from my house on Valverde Street north to the Post Office, then back to the west on La Lomita and along Indian Land to Upper Ranchitos Road and back to my house. Brief portraits of the neighbors, people, houses, land I pass along the way.
Dates:
34098
ROCKY MOUNTAIN BOOK FAIR, DENVER, OCTOBER 1993
File — Box: 136, Folder: 56
Scope and Contents
This is a modest (and mindless) 12-page collection of my schedule, thank-you letter, notes, and requests at a venue where I was on a couple of panels (lists included), gave a reading (my first from Conjugal Bliss, to be published in 1994), and signed books. I actually flew to Denver from Albuquerque instead of driving up! This folder includes two beautiful JOHN NICHOLS booth or table signs or whatever.
Dates:
OCTOBER 1993
PINK MEAD NOTEBOOK, HUMAN SEXUALITY, SPRING 1994
File — Box: 136, Folder: 57
Scope and Contents
I audited a course on Human Sexuality from Randy Thornhill at UNM, January-April 1994. Strictly biology. Scientific. Nothing about the effects of culture, mores, religion on human sexuality. I really liked the course. This notebook has 77 pages of notes, Jan-Feb. 1994, also an insert of 33 pages (taken from another, restricted notebook) covering Thornhill's course during March-April 1994. Also in the notebook are 2 pages of notes from a flamenco guitar lesson with Eric Patterson at his Central...
Dates:
SPRING 1994
BOOK TOUR FOR "CONJUGAL BLISS", FEBRUARY-MARCH 1994
File — Box: 136, Folder: 58
Scope and Contents
This book tour for Conjugal Bliss almost killed me. I was locked in congestive heart failure that would require open-heart surgery on May 4. Still, I did New Mexico signings, then went to San Francisco, Berkeley, Palo Alto, Corte Madera, Portland, Tucson, Denver, Colorado Springs, Boulder, Ft. Collins, and Chicago. This folder contains 54 pages: They comprise letters with Holt publicist Ruth Weiner and schedules of signings and activities and the usual please for payment of expense receipts....
Dates:
FEBRUARY-MARCH 1994
APRIL-MAY 1994
File — Box: 136, Folder: 59
Scope and Contents
14 typed pages. Not journals, but rather 2 articles: "Down on the Rio Grande," and "The Longest Night of My Life." Written in April 1994, "Rio Grande" (6 pages) was published in my collected essays, Dancing on the Stones (2000), and in the Winter 2003 Wild on the Fly Magazine as "Heart Matters." It's about my failing heart, marriage, perhaps end of fishing the Rio Grande. "Longest Night"(8 pages) was published in Dancing on the Stones. It's a description of the frightening immediate aftermath...
Dates:
1956-2007
SEPTEMBER 1994
File — Box: 136, Folder: 60
Scope and Contents
19 typed pages. Mostly about grouse-hunting. I was thrilled to be hiking again after open-heart surgery on May 3, 1994. I'd spent 12 weeks recovering. Folder also contains: Day of relentless chores. Reminiscence of days leading up to open-heart surgery, and the surgery and its aftermath. Trip to Denver to do benefit talk at Wynkoop Brewery of John Hickenlooper. Talk with daughter in Albuqurque. (Also diary [page 1] of a glum day in February 1994, heart really bad, trying to organize my house.)
Dates:
1956-2007
JANUARY 10, 1995
File — Box: 136, Folder: 61
Scope and Contents
1 typed page. About my mind full of too many preoccupations comme d'habitude. Work on Voice of Butterfly. American Blood script. Spending too much money. Cats sick. Meniere's disease. Electrical problems. Stiffed for bread on magazine article. Health care costs. Yikes!
Dates:
1956-2007
SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER 1995
File — Box: 136, Folder: 62
Scope and Contents
26 typed pages about autumn grouse hunting and trout fishing with my two best friends. Serious heart problems September 27. Booksigning in Santa Fe. Bad letter from Holt editor. Plumbing problems. Party for friend. Judge for Frank Waters Prize. Isabel Vigil dying.
Dates:
1956-2007