Finding aid of the David Wong Louie Papers

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1 No online items The UCSC OAC Unit The University Library Special Collections and Archives University Library University of California, Santa Cruz Santa Cruz, California, URL: The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. MS 296 1

2 Collection number: MS 296 The University Library Special Collections and Archives University of California, Santa Cruz Santa Cruz, California Processed by: Mathew E. Simpson Date Completed: July 2008 Encoded by: Mathew E. Simpson 2008 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. Descriptive Summary Title: David Wong Dates: ca Collection number: MS 296 Creator: Louie, David Wong Collection Size: 6 half cartons Repository: University of California, Santa Cruz. University Library. Special Collections and Archives Santa Cruz, California Abstract: This collection consists of manuscript versions of short stories written by Dabid Wong Louie in the late 1970's and 1980's, many of which were published in Pangs Of Love: Stories. Physical location: Stored offsite at NRLF: Advance notice is required for access to the papers. Languages: Languages represented in the collection: English Access Collection open for research. Publication Rights Property rights reside with the University of California. Literary rights are retained by the creators of the records and their heirs. For permission to publish or to reproduce the material, please contact the Head of Special Collections and Archives. Preferred Citation David Wong. MS 296. Special Collections and Archives, University Library, University of California, Santa Cruz. Acquisition Information On deposit. Biography David Wong Louie was born in Rockville Center, New York, in He attended Vassar College (B.A. 1977) and the University of Iowa (M.F.A. in Creative Writing, 1981). His work has appeared in numerous magazines as well as in The Best American Short Stories He taught at Vassar College and currently is an Associate Professor in the Department of English at the University of California at Los Angeles. Scope and Content of Collection This collection consists of manuscript versions of short stories written by Dabid Wong Louie in the late 1970's and 1980's, many of which were published in Pangs Of Love: Stories. Series 1: Material from Pangs of Love. Series 2: Material from Displacement, [comb-bound manuscript]. Series 3: Material from and including an untitled bound collection of stories. Series 4: Other stories in typescript. MS 296 2

3 This collection is arranged following the order found in the included bound volumes. Indexing Terms The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog. Louie, David Wong, Archives Asain Americans -- Fiction American literature -- Asian American authors Chinese-Americans -- Fiction box-folder 1:1-4:3 Series 1 Pangs of Love n.d. Physical Description: 28 folders This series contains typescripts of many, but not all, of the short stories from the published book Pangs of Love: Stories, as well as pre-publication manuscripts. Some stories include many versions, either corrected or clean. The bulk of the manuscripts likely date from the 1980's. Arranged following the publication order. box-folder 1:1 "Birthday" ["Wallace Wong"] n.d. box-folder 1:2-4 "Bottles of Beaujolais" n.d. box-folder 1:2 box-folder 1:3 Mimeographs - Critiqued n.d. box-folder 1:4 [Earlier versions & notes] n.d. box-folder 1:5-6 "Social Science" n.d. box-folder 1:5 box-folder 1:6 [Earlier versions] n.d. box-folder 1:7-10 "Love on the Rocks" n.d. box-folder 1:7 - box-folder 1:8 [Earlier versions - corrected] n.d. box-folder 1:9 [Related versions] n.d. box-folder 1:10 Incomplete box-folder 2:1-3 "The Movers" n.d. box-folder 2:1 box-folder 2:2 box-folder 2:3 box-folder 2:4-6 "One Man's Hysteria - Real and Imagined - In the Twentieth Century" n.d. box-folder 2:4 box-folder 2:5 box-folder 2:6 box-folder 2:7-9 "Warming Trends" n.d. box-folder 2:7 box-folder 2:8 box-folder 2:9 box-folder 3:1-3 "Disturbing the Universe" n.d. box-folder 3:1 box-folder 3:2 box-folder 3:3 box-folder 3:4-4:3 Pangs of Love: Stories n.d. box-folder 3:4 Corrected ms. (photocopy) n.d. box-folder 3:5 First Pass, Pages Master n.d. box-folder 3:6 Planning ms. (corrected) 1991 box-folder 4:1 Setting ms. [1991] MS 296 3

4 Series 1 Pangs of Love n.d. box-folder 4:2 Working ms. [1991] box-folder 4:3 Repro ms. [1991] box-folder 4:4-5:2 Series 2 Displacement n.d. Physical Description: 4 folders This series contains typescripts of one story that was included in a comb-bound collection of stories, as well as one complete, but disbound, manuscript. The manuscript likely dates from the 1980's. Arranged following the publication order. box-folder 4:4-5 box-folder 4:4 box-folder 4:5 box-folder 5:1-2 box-folder 5:1 box-folder 5:2 box-folder 5:3-6:9 "Baby Boom" n.d. Comb-bound ms. n.d. (pt.1) n.d. (pt.2) n.d. Series 3 [Untitled Hand-Bound Collection 0f Stories] n.d. Physical Description: 14 folders This series contains typescripts of some of the stories that were included in an untitled hand-bound collection of stories, as well as one complete, two volume manuscript. The manuscript likely dates from the 1980's. Arranged following the bound order. box-folder 5:3-4 box-folder 5:3 box-folder 5:4 box-folder 5:5-7 box-folder 5:5 box-folder 5:6 box-folder 5:7 box-folder 6:1-3 box-folder 6:1 box-folder 6:2 box-folder 6:3 box-folder 6:4-6 box-folder 6:4 box-folder 6:5 box-folder 6:6 box-folder 6:7-9 box-folder 6:7 box-folder 6:8 box-folder 6:9 box-folder 6:10-6:17 [Untitled Bound Collection 0f Stories] n.d. v.1 n.d. v.2 n.d. "Dance Pieces" n.d. Typescript n.d. "I like IKE. I like GEORGIE LEE." n.d. "Is It Not That the Goats on the Boats Near Bikini Survived the Atomic Bomb?" n.d. "Unspeakable Devices" n.d. Series 4 Other Stories n.d. Physical Description: 8 folders This series contains typescripts of stories not found in the manuscript (at least in these versions), as well as some miscellaneous writings and notes. The manuscripts likely date from the late 1970's and 1980's. Arranged alphabetically. box-folder 6:10 "April Was New York" - Typescript n.d. MS 296 4

5 Series 4 Other Stories n.d. box-folder 6:11 box-folder 6:12 box-folder 6:13 box-folder 6:14 box-folder 6:15 box-folder 6:16 box-folder 6:17 "It Wasn't Eddie's Fault" - Typescript n.d. "Not What I Appear To Be" - Typescript n.d. "The Rise and Fall on an Asexual Man" - Typescript n.d. "Season of Women" - "Stolen Sadness" - Typescript n.d. "Wallace Wong" Miscellaneous n.d. [Notes on story order for publication?] n.d. MS 296 5