Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their process for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Hugh Fulham-McQuillan writes about Notes on Jackson and His Dead from Dalkey Archive Press. + I have built many sandcastles in my life. An essential component has always been water. It…

Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their process for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Linda Mannheim writes about This Way to Departures from Influx Press. + Anita and I were driving around the back roads near Key Largo, looking for the places where the characters…

Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their process for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Sheila O’Connor considers Evidence of V from Rose Metal Press in a conversation with Meghan Maloney-Vinz. + Refusing to Conform: Talking Research and Writing with Sheila O’Connor Meghan Maloney-Vinz: I’ve had…

Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their process for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Katherine Forbes Riley writes about The Bobcat from Arcade Publishing. + Trauma, Art, Linguistics, Nature: The Research Behind The Bobcat At some point in our lives, deep trauma affects us all.…

Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their process for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Leland Cheuk writes about No Good Very Bad Asian from C&R Press. + One of the funnest parts of writing my novel about a fictive famed standup comic was the creation…

Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their process for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, John Minichillo writes about First Woman On Mars from Spaceboy Books. + I was born the year before we landed on the moon and those missions had an undeniable impact on…

Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their process for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Julie Zuckerman writes about The Book Of Jeremiah from Press 53. + I recently started a new day job at a software company. I’ve never worked for the government or for…

Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their process for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Claire Hopple writes about Tired People Seeing America from Dostoevsky Wannabe. + Recipe for Tired People Seeing America by Claire Hopple (V) (GF) Ingredients 1-5 books by Amelia Gray, Scott McClanahan,…

Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their process for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Mathea Morais writes about There You Are from Amberjack Publishing. + Oddly, when I started to write There You Are — which was originally titled Rahsaan’s Records until the publisher decided…

Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their process for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Valerie Nieman writes about To The Bones from West Virginia University Press. + Each fall, a truck from the Harkness Feed Mill chuted anthracite coal into our cellar to warm the…

Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their process for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Mark Barr writes about Watershed from Hub City Press. + In August 2002, I telephoned the Mansfield Dam in Austin, Texas, and asked if I could get a tour of the structure. 9-11 had happened…

Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their process for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Anita Felicelli writes about Chimerica from WTAW Press. + When I was in elementary school, my father took a theater class in which they learned about different methods of acting, and…