{"value"=>"<p>This series consists of files from all ten of Stone's published novels, as well as his memoir, unpublished short stories, essays, and journalistic pieces. The novels are arranged alphabetically by title, and contain typescript drafts, most of which are revised, corrected, and annotated in Stone's hand. There is a mixture of complete drafts, partial drafts, rewrites, and fragments. An attempt was made to arrange the drafts and fragments in the sequence of composition. These drafts remain in the groupings (which often consist of an unsorted mingling of several stages of composition) in which they were received unless definite connections between groups could be made, or there was good reason to believe that unmingling a draft would not distort evidence of Stone's method of composition. This method is already obscured by Stone's use of a word processor to write his last three novels and apparent habit of separately revising several printouts of a manuscript in the same stage. Notes, outlines, and separate annotations were kept with the draft with which they belong whenever this association could be made. (Some of the longer additions were written on the back of typescript pages within a draft or draft fragment.) Otherwise they precede the drafts of the corresponding novel.</p> <p>The drafts of each novel are followed by pre-publication material, such as copy-edited typescripts, galleys, and page proofs; and, in some cases, related material such as magazine excerpts in draft, galley, or printed form, printed reviews, and publicity material. Of special note are typescript drafts of Stone's screenplays for <span class=\"title\">Who'll Stop the Rain</span> and <span class=\"title\">WUSA</span>, which were adapted from his novels <span class=\"title\">Dog Soldiers</span> and <span class=\"title\">A Hall of Mirrors</span>.</p> <p>The other writings are made up of notes, holograph and typescript drafts, and printed forms of published and unpublished short stories, essays, journalistic pieces, and Stone's memoir, <span class=\"title\">Prime Green: Remembering the Sixties</span>. The published articles are arranged alphabetically by publication name, and include drafts, notes, and revisions, as well as some correspondence with editors. The spiral notebooks in this series also contain brief random notes for some of Stone's novels and unrealized projects, see especially the notebook containing the holograph draft of \"Alas That They Should Fall Apart\" (see Box 21, f.2), an unpublished short story, which also contains some notes for <span class=\"title\">Dog Soldiers</span> and outlines for \"Literature of Alienation\", a class Stone taught at Amherst.</p>"}