{"value"=>"<p>Files on writings are mostly made up of files on Stein's books <span class=\"title\">Edie</span> and <span class=\"title\">West of Eden</span>. They document Stein's process of creating a book composed entirely of oral history through research, conducting interviews, selecting and arranging excerpts, editing, revising, selecting photographs, promoting the book, and the response to the book. These files include research files, drafts, photographs, book components, reviews, articles, and letters. Research files consist of collected notes, articles, photocopies copies of primary documents, and interview transcripts. Stein conducted many interviews with prominent individuals that were not published in her book (and from those that were, only selections were published), so the majority of the interviews in this series are unpublished. This series also contains materials on book structure and planning, that provide insight into how Stein managed the massive task of researching and organizing her books with outlines, overviews, chronologies, lists of people to interview, interview questions, and notes.</p> <p>Other writing and editorial projects consist of files on topics for proposed and completed articles, screenplays, plays, books, and the literary/visual arts magazine, <span class=\"title\">Grand Street</span>, which Stein co-edited from 1990 to 2004. Included with these projects is Stein's first book, <span class=\"title\">American Journey: The Times of Robert Kennedy</span>, which is not substantially represented in this collection. Other topics Stein researched extensively include nightlife in Cuba in the 1950s, political activist Angela Davis, Swiss artist Alberto Giacometti, writer and socialite Alice Roosevelt Longworth, national security and surveillance, novelist and screenwriter Terry Southern, and cartoonist and illustrator Saul Steinberg. Files on these and other subjects contain research, notes, interviews, correspondence, drafts, and completed writings.</p>"}