Box 186
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THE ANNUAL BIG ARSENIC FISHING CONTEST (R), August 2015
File — Box: 186, Folder: 1
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Almost done. Jarsenic.12e. August 22, 2015. 58,253 words. 244 pages. Original. Clean, except for a few nit-picking Post-Its. It's never over 'til it's over!
Dates:
August 2015
THE ANNUAL BIG ARSENIC FISHING CONTEST (S), August 2015
File — Box: 186, Folder: 2
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Jarsenic.12e. Transcoded version. I work on ancient program on my old Compaq 98 computer, with Windows 98, Word Perfect 6.0. Save everything on a 3.5 floppy disk. Nobody can read that disk. So I take it to Electric Sheep, and they transcode it into Microsoft Word, put it on CD or Flashdrive, which I take to Copy Queen in Taos, and they print out a new, double-space manuscript like this. I also download the Electric Sheep transcode onto a "new" computer I bought 6 years ago but never use because...
Dates:
August 2015
THE ANNUAL BIG ARSENIC FISHING CONTEST (T), February 2016
File — Box: 186, Folder: 3
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Here is the original copyedit of Big Arsenic by Maya Allen-Gallegos at UNM Press, and my responses on Post-Its and written in red ink in the margins of their computer version in hard copy with tiiny type. 178 pages. Included is my 7-page letter on Feb. 16, 2016 to Maya about the copyedit.
Dates:
February 2016
THE ANNUAL BIG ARSENIC FISHING CONTEST (U), JAN-JUNE 2016
File — Box: 186, Folder: 4
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This is a file of letters between me and Lila Sanchez, a designer at UNM Press, regarding the cover of the Big Arsenic book from January to June 2016. We went back and forth a lot, and Lila had amazing patience with me. She designed a wonderful cover. There are about 20 letters between Lila and me, and many Xeroxes of the cover art and design suggestions between us. The fish images on the cover were sent to me by my friend Dennis Haggerty on his letters to me over the years. He died before the...
Dates:
JAN-JUNE 2016
THE ANNUAL BIG ARSENIC FISHING CONTEST (V), 2015-2016
File — Box: 186, Folder: 5
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These are copies of Internet research for the book. 1.) Lometa, TX, rattlesnake roundup. 2.) Texas Tech football info, "Bangin' Bertha. 3.) Playboy clubs in Dallas and Phoenix. 4.) Thomas Pynchon: Gravity's Rainbow, V., The Crying of Lot 49. 5.) Lubbock, Texas. 6.) Pantex nuclear plant, Amarillo. 7.) Mac Davis song, "Happines is Lubbock, Texas, in my Rearview Mirror. 8.) Tycho Brahe biography. 9.) Shelly's "Ozymandius" poem.
Dates:
2015-2016
THE ANNUAL BIG ARSENIC FISHING CONTEST (W), 2016
File — Box: 186, Folder: 6
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More copies of Internet research for the book. 1.) Garden of the Gods golf club. 2.) Movie: "The Easy Life." 3.) Garden of the Gods descriptions. 4.) Benny "Kid" Paret, boxer killed by Emile Griffith. 5.) Alex Karras. 6.) Tank McNamara. 7.) Nobodaddy description. 8.) Nobodaddy description. 9.) From The Sleepwalkers, by Arthur Koestler, chapter about Tycho de Brahe. Nowhere else could I find the de, so eventually, with help of UNM editor and copyeditor, I got rid of it.
Dates:
2016
THE ANNUAL BIG ARSENIC FISHING CONTEST (X), 2016
File — Box: 186, Folder: 7
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This file contains a rare unbound copy of the printed novel in what appears to be five "signatures" of about 48 pages each. Considered "final final proofs." Also included: an orange cardboard mockup of the hardcover, with a proof receipt dated July 6, 2016, for the production department to approve. The last shot at review before printing up the book and shipping it out.
Dates:
2016
THE ANNUAL BIG ARSENIC FISHING CONTEST - PHOTO ADDENDUM, 2016
File — Box: 186, Folder: 8
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These are color prints of Mike Kimmel, Doug Terry, and myself on the Rio Grande that I planned to use as chapter headings in the novel. I never did. Some pages are original color prints. Includes black and white mockup of foto for each chapter. 22 pages.
Dates:
2016
ON TOP OF SPOON MOUNTAIN (35), 2011
File — Box: 186, Folder: 9
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This is the original ms. of its Xerox copy found in box 168, folder 4, SPOON MOUNTAIN (30). Beth Hadas's edit of novel, with my responses in red ink. Per Beth's advice, I also gave my narrator a name--Jonathan Kepler--and in this draft handwrote in his name throughout. Paginated by hand, each chapter a separate file on computer. 221 pages.
Dates:
2011
ON TOP OF SPOON MOUNTAIN (36), 2012
File — Box: 186, Folder: 10
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This folder has the original copyedit by Elise McHugh of UNM Press. My responses are in red ink, including major corrections in two chapters. I worked on it from Feb. 27-March 8, 2012. This is the original ms. of the Xerox material in Box 168, folder 8.
Dates:
2012
ON TOP OF SPOON MOUNTAIN (37), 2012
File — Box: 186, Folder: 11
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Materials sent to Elise McHugh when I returned Spoon Mountain copyedit on March 8. Included are: Rewriters of pp 44, 116-118. Sample design for "also by John Nichols." Proof that some raven calls can be called "quorks. Samples of numbers done numerically and printed out. Quote about Beautiful and Damned from Mizener's bio of Scott Fitzgerald. Sample of typesetting "60 point." Copy of e.e. cummings poem and "justlikethat" as one word.
Dates:
2012
ON TOP OF SPOON MOUNTAIN (38), 2012
File — Box: 186, Folder: 12
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Clean, original, Jan. 1, 2012. Each chapter a seperate file. Paginated in pencil. Corrections through January 3, 2012. 54,982 words. 222 pages. Includes "Some words about ON TOP OF SPOON MOUNTAIN," 2 pages written by me for UNM Press to use for publicity purposes.
Dates:
2012
ON TOP OF SPOON MOUNTAIN (39), 2012
File — Box: 186, Folder: 13
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January 1, 2012. Clean draft. Original. Paginated by the computer, all chapters now in just one file. Incorporates suggestions of Beth hadas in November 2011 edit. 54,982 words. 231 pages.
Dates:
2012
ON TOP OF SPOON MOUNTAIN (40), 2012
File — Box: 186, Folder: 14
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This is rare. It's a printed, but unbound copy of the final book. It seems to contain 4 full signatures and 2 quarter signatures, or something, I don't know the lingo. 223 pages.
Dates:
2012
GOODBYE, MONIQUE (1), 1996?
File — Box: 186, Folder: 15
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Folder includes 27 typed pages, on computer, of my early attempts to start a memoir of Monique. I comment that "rough notes for this version are in a Stuart Hall green notebook with 70 sheets, wide rule, dated 1990-1993. This notebook also has parts of "Keep it Simple" in it, as well as "Goodbye, Monique," and loose pages of notes for my 1993 visit to my dad in Smithville, Texas." I can't find that damn notebook in my archives manuscript inventory, although a green Stuart Hall notebook with...
Dates:
1996?
GOODBYE, MONIQUE (2), 1996, 2000
File — Box: 186, Folder: 16
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The essay in this folder has 5 titles: My Heart Belongs to Nature, A Life in a Nutshell, Goodbye, Monique, A Eulogy for my Funeral, and On Top of Spoon Mountain. The 17 typed pages of my "biography" here are massively hand-corrected. First few pages discuss Monique. File includes 22 pages of hand-written notes about sex, people I've known who've died, my stupid homilies about life, fame, fucking, being 66 years old (so some notes are from 1996), and why dad married my stepmother Brownie Gleason...
Dates:
1996; 2000
GOODBYE, MONIQUE (3), July 2000
File — Box: 186, Folder: 17
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Again, this is 20 pages of ambling, rambling biography about fun I've had in life, all my heart problems, other friends who've died, and what a miracle it is to have lived for 60 years despite all the pitfalls I've had.
Dates:
July 2000
GOODBYE, MONIQUE (4), JULY-AUGUST 2000
File — Box: 186, Folder: 18
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Contained here are 14 typed pages that are straightforwardly about Monique, her death from endocarditis, her family, my dad, his family, life with Monique, my search for her after I'd grown up. Many handwritten corrections and additions. File includes 4 hand-written pages about Monique's death and aftermath, plus sketches of my own botched life.
Dates:
JULY-AUGUST 2000
GOODBYE, MONIQUE (5), 2002
File — Box: 186, Folder: 19
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7 pages, probably written around 2002. Start of a novel. Pages talk about arriving at mt. trailhead, packing gear, explaining my love of wild country in Taos County, and especially the mountains I'm about to climb in order to scatter my father's ashes at the top of Spoon Mountain. This was planned as a novel, and would include descriptions of Pop and Monique's life along with my love of climbing in the mountains while also remembering Dad and Monique's love of zoology, wildlife, birds.
Dates:
2002
GOODBYE,MONIQUE (6), 2004
File — Box: 186, Folder: 20
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10 pages hand-written in September and December 2004, about the structure of the book. Intended to be about Monique, and then more about Dad's life (and mine) after her death. Lots of notes on my life at Loomis prep school (1954-58), his life and marital disasters. Pages 4-7 attempt to spell out many chapters of the book, 16 of them listed from a-p.
Dates:
2004
GOODBYE, MONIQUE (7), September 2004
File — Box: 186, Folder: 21
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This is my most thorough attempt to get a serious start on Goodbye, Monique. Outlines chapters 1-16. Then 12 handwritter pages, starting the book with life of Anatole Le Braz, setting up family backgrounds. Then these scribbled pages are typed in a 13-page version, labeled A. There follows a retyped and hand-corrected version from p.10 to p.15, labeled B. And another typed (and hand-corrected) version of those pages (10-17) labeled C. And a handwritten inclusion from pp. 14-18 labeled D. I was...
Dates:
September 2004
GOODBYE, MONIQUE (8), 2006
File — Box: 186, Folder: 22
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15 typed pages that begin with Monique and her sister Ninon's, early deaths, then it segues into my hyperactive life. I had written a speech called "My Heart Belongs to Nature" or "Goodbye, Monique" for Barbara Waters Healing Conference in Taos August 27, 2005 (Box 101, Folder 5) and I was taking off on it. Playing off Monique's death by endocarditis leading me eventually to almost die of the same disease in 1994, and then save myself afterwards by heading into the mountains, the natural world,...
Dates:
2006
GOODBYE, MONIQUE (9), 2007
File — Box: 186, Folder: 23
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This file has a 6-page handwritten description of pictures of Monique, June 2007. And a 6-page typed version of those descriptions. Also 4 handwritten pages of Dad in Smithville, Texas, in a different approach to trying to start the book. And finally 2 typed pages of my Dad, in the Marines, hitting on a woman in a train sleeping car, and on Bougainville in August 1945 when the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima.
Dates:
2007
GOODBYE, MONIQUE (10), 2007-2008
File — Box: 186, Folder: 24
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Two typed, hand-corrected drafts written the end of 2007, and typed up clean early 2008. About my search for Monique before Pop died, and the letters and info he gave me, and materials I received from other family members, leading to my attempt to start putting together Monique, and her life with Pop, and her dying. Three drafts here are labeled A (9 pages), B (23 pages), and C (13 pages). C is clean with almost no corrections.
Dates:
2007-2008
GOODBYE, MONIQUE (11), 2008
File — Box: 186, Folder: 25
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This is a total sidetrack. It's me again trying to write a raucous, obnoxious, satirical novel that includes my life, Pop's life, Pop and Monique, a spoof on Taos and current society, and climbing in the mountains, loving the natural world. 37 typed pages (that include many hand corrections, and 5 hand-written additional in the middle of the ms., at the end of which I wrote "This sucks, John." There are 5 handwritten pages of notes about "plot." Also scribbles on 5 envelopes that raucously...
Dates:
2008