{"value"=>"<p>Subseries IV.A. contains manuscripts of short works, including newspaper and magazine articles, reviews, introductions and forewords, obituaries, short stories, and a partial draft of a novel. Articles and essays are often identified in the container list by Wolfe's working title that may differ from the final title used in publication. Notable short works represented include Wolfe's 1965 two-part profile of William Shawn and <span class=\"title\">The New Yorker</span> (box 91, folder 9), and \"Stalking the Billion Footed Beast,\" his 1989 manifesto on social realism in fiction (boxes 105-106).</p> <p>Wolfe's newspaper and magazine work prior to 1965 is documented with clippings of articles published in the <span class=\"title\">Springfield Union</span>, manuscripts of stories written as the Latin American correspondent for the <span class=\"title\">Washington Post</span>, and manuscripts of Wolfe's first feature stories published by the <span class=\"title\">Post</span>, the <span class=\"title\">New York Herald Tribune</span>, <span class=\"title\">Esquire</span>, and the <span class=\"title\">Herald</span>'s Sunday magazine (predecessor to <span class=\"title\">New York</span> magazine). Many files for manuscripts prior to 1965 do not contain complete drafts.</p> <p>Some files contain research materials, including stenography notebooks, photographs, photocopies of secondary sources, and unique source material. For example, \"The Pump House Gang\" (box 91, folders 11-13) includes a large number of letters from Bill van Petten describing youth culture in La Jolla, California, which Wolfe consulted while writing the story. This subseries also contains two screen adaptations by unknown authors of Wolfe's 1965 feature on Junior Johnson and the 1975 story \"The Truest Sport.\"</p> <p>The most recent files contain drafts and outlines of \"The Human Beast,\" a long-form essay based on Wolfe's 2006 National Endowment for the Humanities lecture, telling the story of Darwin's theory of evolution. Research files primarily consist of copies of secondary sources with Wolfe's handwritten notes on Darwin and E. O. Wilson.</p> <p>For later versions of short works published in Wolfe's books, see Subseries IV.B. Books. Manuscripts of essays later published in <span class=\"title\">The New Journalism</span>, <span class=\"title\">The Painted Word</span>, and <span class=\"title\">From Bauhaus to Our House</span> are filed with book manuscripts in Subseries IV.B.</p> <p>This subseries is arranged chronologically, grouped by decades. Within individual years, files are organized alphabetically.</p>"}