Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their process for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Mary Kuryla writes about Freak Weather, winner of the Grace Paley Prize in Short Fiction from University of Massachusetts Press. + My collection Freak Weather Stories won the 2016 Grace Paley Prize and was published by Massachusetts…

Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their process for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Michael Konik writes about Year 14 from Barrelhouse Books. + Mandatory Trigger Warning: May induce nausea and cynicism in readers prone to reasonableness. When I lived my younger life, visiting many places, many poor places, many…

Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their process for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Amy P. Knight writes about Lost, Almost from Engine Books. + As I sit down to write this, the threat of nuclear war has become terrifyingly concrete. Over the last six…

Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their process for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Dana Diehl writes about Our Dreams Might Align from Jellyfish Highway Press. + The Magic of Fact When I was a child, my family car rides were punctuated by my parents’…

Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their process for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Kristen N. Arnett writes about Felt in the Jaw from Split Lip Press. + why did you write that book, kristen: observational field notes There are so many things I want…

Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their process for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, David Hayden writes about Darker With The Lights On from Little Island Press/Carcanet Press (UK) and Transit Books (US). + On Forgetting and Writing Last week, last month, three years ago; on the bus, in a café,…

Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their process for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Joan Wilking writes about Mycology from Curbside Splendor. + The Wrong Mushroom Everything I write starts as an image; a vintage hand-colored etching of a deadly mushroom hanging on a clothesline…

Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their process for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Matthew Stephen Sirois writes about Near Haven from Belle Lutte Press. + Two men sit on a wooden pier, smoking, discussing a light in the sky. Eight years ago, this image fell toward me like a…

Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their process for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Kevin Allardice writes about Family, Genus, Species from Outpost 19. + Research — to search — sounds glamorous, romantic, even adventurous. Indiana Jones does research. That dimly mulleted man Tom Hanks…

Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their process for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Rebecca Entel writes about Fingerprints of Previous Owners from Unnamed Press. + + I started taking notes when I visited the Bahamas — to develop an off-campus course for the college…

Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their process for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Tania Hershman writes about Some Of Us Glow More Than Others from Unthank Books. + 1. I show up. I wake up. I pitch up. I lift up. I look up.…

Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their process for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, An Tran writes about Meditations on the Mother Tongue from C&R Press. + Methodology The methodology is simple, but requires technical finesse: Firmly staple an object to the mind, such that…