Talk:An American Dream Expanded

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Welcome to the digital Humanities project, AAD Expanded. This page will facilitate the discussion on the development of this project, beginning in the spring of 2019.

Purview

This project aims to create a critical and cultural context around the composition and subsequent reaction to Norman Mailer’s novel An American Dream. It will begin with J. Michael Lennon’s 2004 Norman Mailer's Letters on An American Dream, 1963–1969. Additional interviews, reviews, essays, and miscellany will be added as they are collected, permissions cleared, and digitized.

Access

Participation requires:

  1. An account on Project Mailer. This cannot be created by users, but must be done by the editor, Gerald R. Lucas. Send him an email requesting an account (please include the username you would like).
  2. Access to original documents. Original documents are stored on Google Drive. Please request access using your Google account. There will be numerous source documents we will be working with on this project.

To Do

See the to-do list on the talk page for Norman Mailer's Letters on An American Dream, 1963–1969.

edit · history · watch · refresh Stock post message.svg To-do list for An American Dream Expanded:

  • All pages should use {{aade-sm}} somewhere on the page. This gives the appropriate categories and a banner about the page’s part on the project
  • Add bibliography entries (Appendix II.doc in Letters directory).
  • Incorporate items in the Misc directory from the shared drive.
    • Add to Gallery. (Everyone could do one of these, at least.)added 1 to gallery and 1 to snippets--Dillbug (talk) 16:29, 16 April 2019 (UTC)
(friends, I'm listing those files in Misc., please sign and strike off when you have uploaded them to PM for ease of recon)~~(Dmcgonagill (talk) 19:38, 16 April 2019 (UTC))
  1. 196505 PW Best Sellers --Dillbug (talk) 12:38, 17 April 2019 (EDT)
  2. 19640302--Dillbug (talk) 12:56, 17 April 2019 (EDT)
  3. 19650125 Royalty Statement--Dillbug (talk) 13:33, 17 April 2019 (EDT)
  4. 19650310 Book Week News--Dillbug (talk) 13:40, 17 April 2019 (EDT)
  5. 19650315 Invitation--Dillbug (talk) 13:40, 17 April 2019 (EDT)
  6. 19650316 Advertising Copy--Dillbug (talk) 14:42, 18 April 2019 (EDT)
  7. 19650322 Publishers Weekly Currents--Dillbug (talk) 14:48, 18 April 2019 (EDT)
  8. 19650322 Publishers Weekly I will do this one Sherita Sims-Jones (talk) 11:05, 21 April 2019 (EDT)
  9. 19650401 Herald Tribune~~ waeboWaebo (talk) 15:10, 18 April 2019 (EDT)
  10. 19650403 New Republic--Dillbug (talk) 15:16, 18 April 2019 (EDT)
  11. 19650418 Best Sellers --Dillbug (talk) 11:41, 25 April 2019 (EDT)
  12. 19650514 Envelope~~(Dmcgonagill (talk) 13:45, 17 April 2019 (EDT))Friends, I do not have access to a pdf to jpg/png convertor, so I uploaded this but only in pdf and it doesn't seem usable in that form. If you have access or a work around please advice or take and make happenCry.pngThanks! ~~(Dmcgonagill (talk) 14:54, 17 April 2019 (EDT))
Dmcgonagill I have a pdf to jpeg file converter. Waebo (talk) 10:13, 18 April 2019 (EDT)
@Waebo: Awesome! You want to convert my envelope one for me then? Or is it something you can share?~~(Dmcgonagill (talk) 11:11, 18 April 2019 (EDT))
@Waebo: Thank you Rian! Got the envelope up thanks to you! ~~(Dmcgonagill (talk) 09:13, 22 April 2019 (EDT))
@Waebo and Dmcgonagill: I may have to borrow your services too, Rian. I've got several files I'm trying to convert. What program are you using that converts?? JVbird (JVbird|talk) (UTC) 22:02, 19 April 2019
  1. 19650923 Mary Bancroft Letter- I will add Waebo --Waebo (talk) 11:36, 17 April 2019 (EDT)
  2. 20190302_L The New York -I will addDillbug (talk) 18:21, 16 April 2019 (EDT)Dillbug
  3. 20190302_002 ssimsjones (ssimsjones) 23:37, 16 April 2019 (UTC)
  4. 20190302 Harper's plan ssimsjones (ssimsjones) 23:37, 16 April 2019 (UTC)
  5. 20190302_there's SOI park ssimsjones (ssimsjones) 23:37, 16 April 2019 (UTC)
# Cover Mock-up --I will do this one, JVbird JVbird (talk)
# Huffman-Jungian Approach --I will do this one, JVbirdJVbird (talk)
# Saturday Review -I will do this one JVbirdJVbird (talk)
  1. Snippet - I will doDillbug (talk) 18:21, 16 April 2019 (EDT)
  2. Trotter Letter - I will do this one. Mango Masala (talk) 13:01, 19 April 2019 (EDT)
  • Secure permissions for essays.
  • Post full-text essays.
  • Secure permissions for reviews.
  • Post full-text reviews. Working on Didion ~~(Dmcgonagill (talk) 23:21, 15 April 2019 (UTC))Working on BuckleyDillbug (talk) 16:29, 16 April 2019 (UTC) Working on Dana, North American Review JVbird JVbird (talk) @Grlucas: Should these full reviews be transcribed or posted as PDF and do we need to secure permission? Thanks, JVbird (talk) (UTC)
# Huffman-Jungian Approach --I will do this one, JVbird JVbird (talk)
# Saturday Review -I will do this one JVbirdJVbird (talk)
  1. Nichols-NYT -I will work on this one waebowaebo ( talk)
  • Add notes and other research, like identifying important people, events, publications, etc.
    • Links to Wikipedia when appropriate.
  • Post credits. (I'll do this near the project’s completion. —Grlucas (talk) 17:21, 5 April 2019 (UTC))
Priority 2

Discussion

Letters

Translating this book from print to digital will be our primary objective for the spring 2019. Here are some things we have to decide:

Should each letter have its own page? I’m leaning toward yes here.

How should each page be named so each is unique? I think subpages would be the way to go here, like Structured Vision, but then what do we call each page? “To: So and So”, like: Norman Mailer's Letters on An American Dream, 1963–1969/To: Eiichi Yaminishi? What do we do when we have more than one letter to Eiichi Yaminishi? Should we add the date? Norman Mailer's Letters on An American Dream, 1963–1969/To: Eiichi Yaminishi (November 25, 1963) It’s beginning to get unwieldy. Suggestions?

How should they be formatted? I.e., how should they appear on the screen? I think we should create a navbar to link them. Other ideas? Check out WD entries for ideas.

What will be our category schema?

Notes

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