Box 137
Container
Contains 57 Results:
OCTOBER-NOVEMBER 1998
File — Box: 137, Folder: 26
Scope and Contents
42 typed pages. Several fishing trips to Big Arsenic (annual contest October 13). Can't sell Carson land. Trip to visit a friend's farm in Indiana. To Detroit family funeral for niece who died in a car accident. Work on Che Guevara script. To L.A. on Midnight Return movie business. Leonid Meteor Showers. And a Rio Grande Gorge fishing trip down Suicide Slide.
Dates:
1956-2007
JANUARY-JUNE 1999
File — Box: 137, Folder: 27
Scope and Contents
Only 7 typed pages with a synopsis of my January-June activities. My heart in bad atrial fibrillation; rewriting Midnight Return movie; working on script about Che Guevara; getting a new literary agent; giving talks in Durango, Seattle, Flagstaff, El Paso; finishing collected essays, "Dancing on the Stones. I also climbed Wheeler Peak. A busy little beaver.
Dates:
1956-2007
SOLANA HARRIS BIRTH, April 18, 1999
File — Box: 137, Folder: 28
Scope and Contents
3 typed pages. It's a description of the birth of my first granddaughter, Tania and Marco's baby, Solana Monet Harris. A great arrival, a great kid.
Dates:
April 18, 1999
JULY-AUGUST 1999
File — Box: 137, Folder: 29
Scope and Contents
22 typed pages (18 are typed, 3 contain feathers and butterflies). Mostly describing three dramatic hikes up Wheeler Peak with various friends. Also difficulties with Dancing on the Stones copyedit.
Dates:
1956-2007
BLUE MEAD NOTEBOOK, SMITHVILLE, TEXAS, AUGUST 1999
File — Box: 137, Folder: 30
Scope and Contents
On August 5-9, 1999 my son Luke and my brother Dave went with me to Smithville to put my dad's archives into a storage locker. Unbelievable, debilitating heat! This notebook has: 1.) 7-page inventory of Pop's archives. 2.) 26-page diary of our trip and activities.
Dates:
AUGUST 1999
SMITHVILLE, TEXAS, AUGUST 5-9, 1999
File — Box: 137, Folder: 31
Scope and Contents
13 typed pages. Recounting the difficult August trip to Smithville recounted in BLUE MEAD NOTEBOOK, SMITHVILLE, TEXAS - AUGUST 1999 just above. I've rarely experienced such unforgiving heat and humidity. None of my exes live in Texas!
Dates:
AUGUST 5-9, 1999
SEPTEMBER 1-20, 1999
File — Box: 137, Folder: 32
Scope and Contents
47 typed pages. They recount grouse hunting with friends; grousing about onslaught of summer visitors; and trying to rewrite The Voice of the Butterfly and Empanada Brotherhood, publish Dancing on the Stones, and survive heart problems. A newspaper article and photo from September 8, 1999 depicts funeral of murder of Joe Cisneros nephew in Questa recounted on p. 19.
Dates:
1956-2007
SEPTEMBER 21-30, 1999
File — Box: 137, Folder: 33
Scope and Contents
23 typed pages. With more adventures grouse-hunting the high country. And panic about endless visitors; money running out; no time to work; writing a Hollywood essay for Zoetrope Allstory "To Make a Long Story Short"; correcting Voice of the Butterfly.
Dates:
1956-2007
OCTOBER-NOVEMBER 1999
File — Box: 137, Folder: 34
Scope and Contents
64 typed pages. They include: Fishing the Rio Grande; correcting Voice of the Butterfly (and trying to sell it); hiking in snow and up Pot Creek to Bernardin Lake; cranes at Monte Vista Wildlife Refuge; anti-Wal-Mart rap; whining about visitors and obligations; insanity of organizing these endless archives; giving speeches; daily heart problems. Folder includes article from London Guardian Saturday, Nov. 20, 2010, that I slipped in here because it describes Christopher Isherwoods diaries. I...
Dates:
1956-2007
DECEMBER 1999
File — Box: 137, Folder: 35
Scope and Contents
22 typed pages featuring: Work on a Milkweed Editions Credo Essay, "An American Child Supreme;" the opening of Daisy's Bookstore in Saguache; organizing archives; mailing 2,000 Xmas letters; Christmas Eve at Taos Pueblo; and voracious reading, including huge biography of China's Mao and Coetzee's Disgrace.
Dates:
1956-2007
JANUARY-FEBRUARY 2000
File — Box: 137, Folder: 36
Scope and Contents
39 typed pages. Which include: Survival of Y2K because absolutely nothing happened; visit to the Bosque del Apache wildlife refuge near Socorro, NM; San Antonio Book Fair; publishing of "Armageddon and New Mexico" and Dancing on the Stones; work on Empanada Brotherhood; rewrite of Voice of the Butterfly while it's rejected often in New York; Credo essay ("American Child Supreme") for Milkweed; doing an inventory of my father's archives. Also two newspaper articles on Bosque del Apache from...
Dates:
1956-2007
MARCH 2000
File — Box: 137, Folder: 37
Scope and Contents
29 typed pages. Daily cuckoo life in Taos. Rewrite Voice of the Butterfly. Benefit in French for Poetry Circus at Cafe Tazza. Book-signings for Dancing on the Stones. Conflicts with agent. Copyediting reprint galleys for Last Beautiful Days of Autumn. My brief rejection, then acceptance, of honorary degrees from UNM and Hamilton. Visitors. Typical convolutions. Camus story "The Artist at Work"...my totem story!
Dates:
1956-2007
APTIL 2000
File — Box: 137, Folder: 38
Scope and Contents
31 typed pages. Work on "Voice of the Butterfly" novel. Intro to friend's novel. Climb Devisadero. Too many visitors. Too much mundane nattering. Arizona Book Fair in Phoenix, many literary friends. Credo essay, "An American Child Supreme." Endless petty obligations and babble, blabble, dabble, scrabble. Fishing the Rio Grande. "Hollywood" party in Taos. Speech for library conference.
Dates:
1956-2007
MAY 2000
File — Box: 137, Folder: 39
Scope and Contents
40 typed pages. Work on "An American Child Supreme" and "The Voice of the Butterfly" and "Duende." Library conference speech. Many visitors. Dysfunctional logistics. Trip to Pueblo, Colorado, to see pal Dan Gerber in a car race (fear, fascination, trembling, Juan Ramon Jimenez). Myriad nit-picking obligations. Terrible Los Alamos forest fire. People galore. "Magnifico" rap. Honorary degrees from UNM and my alma mater, Hamilton. Family hijinks. Moaning about self-destruction. Jousting with...
Dates:
1956-2007
JUNE 2000
File — Box: 137, Folder: 40
Scope and Contents
33 typed pages. Working on "An American Child Supreme" essay; organizing archives; booksignings for "Dancing on the Stones;" rewriting Duende; climbing Wheeler Peak (and my first bighorn sheep ever on June 16!); infected jaw, pulling tooth; bitching about drought and visitors; and still trying to sell Voice of the Butterfly.
Dates:
1956-2007
JULY 2000
File — Box: 137, Folder: 41
Scope and Contents
48 typed pages. More work on Credo essay; big Taos Hippie reminiscence party at Mabel Dodge Lujan house; inventory of father's archives; planning memoir "Goodbye, Monique;" organizing archives; climbing Wheeler Peak; fishing Big Arsenic; interview on Rio Grande for Albuquerque Tribune; trip to Saguache, CO. High Point is climbing Lake Fork Peak with daughter Tania on July 23, my 60th birthday.
Dates:
1956-2007
RED MEAD NOTEBOOK, POP'S ARCHIVES, JULY-AUGUST 2000
File — Box: 137, Folder: 42
Scope and Contents
In January 2000 I went to Smithville, Texas, and brought my dad's archives back to Taos in a U-Haul. Then I inventoried his vast files, Xeroxed what I thought I might later use in a book, and mailed the archives on to my brother Dave for storage in his Mt. Kisco, NY attic. This notebook is filled with 139 pages of that inventory.
Dates:
JULY-AUGUST 2000
AUGUST 2000
File — Box: 137, Folder: 43
Scope and Contents
35 typed pages. Daily chaos, and mostly organizing my archives and inventorying my dad's archives. Bone scan in Santa Fe. Arthur Koestler biography. Art opening. One alpine climb, a couple of talks, and work on Duende and the Credo essay, "An American Child Supreme."
Dates:
1956-2007
SEPTEMBER 2000
File — Box: 137, Folder: 44
Scope and Contents
57 typed pages. Much grouse hunting. Frantic work on "An American Child Supreme." Editing Voice of the Butterfly. Chronic infected jaw. Fishing Rope Trail on Rio Grande. Anal Arsenic Fishing Contest. Fishing Bear Crossing on Rio Grande with Taylor Streit. Family gathering. Working on Duende. Despair over drought.
Dates:
1956-2007
DAVE PETERSEN, OCTOBER 5-6, 2000
File — Box: 137, Folder: 45
Scope and Contents
28 typed pages. I drove to Durango and interviewed outdoor writer Dave Petersen for a profile published in the May/June 2001 Bloomsbury Review (copy enclosed). Its title was, "A Memory in Nature." This folder has the 28 typed pages of my notes from the interview with my good friend Dave.
Dates:
OCTOBER 5-6, 2000
OCTOBER 2000
File — Box: 137, Folder: 46
Scope and Contents
31 typed pages. All about: Mountain climbing with a NY buddy; working on cover of Voice of the Butterfly; rewriting Duende; planning big novel; complaining about drought, visitors; my own lack of discipline, too much procrastination; opening of Ute Theater in Saguache, CO; climb to Williams Lake in snow; delight with my first grandchild, Solana; a party in Albuquerque; more Midnight Return movie screenplay stuff.
Dates:
1956-2007
NOVEMBER 2000
File — Box: 137, Folder: 47
Scope and Contents
45 typed pages. Speech at Headwaters Conference in Gunnison, CO; shoveling snow; work on Duende novella; 2000 election Bush stole; crazy stuff in Taos; too many requests; work on Midnight Return script; trip to L.A. for story conference; read Bellow biography; fear of 2001 book tour; Hollywood gossip; planning to write a big "novelography:" yearly wrapup on Nov. 25; bad atrial fib attacks; visit to Taos of my new editor from Chronicle, Jay Schaefer.
Dates:
1956-2007
DECEMBER 2000
File — Box: 137, Folder: 48
Scope and Contents
39 typed pages. Writing Midnight Return script; strange dreams; start a new novel (Toby's Aleph) doomed from the start by autobiographical fixation; doctor visits, sigmoid exam; plumbing disasters; reflections on fate; copyedits of Voice of Butterfly and American Child Supreme; endless "senior moments;" getting out Xmas letters; Taos scene; my daughter buys a house; Christmas Eve at the Pueblo. Folder includes a newspaper article on the hottest year in New Mexico from Albuquerque Journal,...
Dates:
1956-2007
JANUARY 2001
File — Box: 137, Folder: 49
Scope and Contents
67 typed pages. Despair over drought (no snow in Taos); work on new novel, Toby's Aleph; difficult work on "American Child Supreme" copyedit and bibliography; angry 20-page letter to Milkweed with bibliography corrections; Midnight Return script; chores, endless chores; Voice of Butterfly galleys. Bookcases in storage locker. Begging for snow to fall.
Dates:
1956-2007
FEBRUARY 2001
File — Box: 137, Folder: 50
Scope and Contents
26 typed pages. Taos night life; lack of snow; plumbing disasters; work on novel, Toby's Aleph; pocket gophers; screenplay of Midnight Return; climbing Devisadero daily; heart problems; infected jaw; many friends; and a real SNOWFALL at last!
Dates:
1956-2007