Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their process for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Gillian Best writes about The Last Wave from Freight Books. + There were two key bits of research I did for The Last Wave: the first, speaking to accomplished Channel swimmer…

Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their process for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Erin Pringle writes about The Whole World at Once from Vandalia Press. + Notes on Grief while Writing Fiction I wrote and revised most of the stories in The Whole World…

Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their process for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Dennie Wendt writes about Hooper’s Revolution from Unnamed Press. + Kicked Off, How Hooper’s Revolution Came To Be This book is the direct result of rejection. I had written an absurdist…

Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their process for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Chauna Craig writes about The Widow’s Guide to Edible Mushrooms from Press 53. + Ah, Correction: The Fiction of Real Places I woke in the middle of the night after my…

Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their process for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Renee Macalino Rutledge writes about The Hour of Daydreams from Forest Avenue Press. + A Bedrock of Ghost Stories I often tell people that a Filipino folktale, The Star Maidens, inspired…

Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their process for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Melissa Yancy writes about Dog Years, winner of the 2016 Drue Heinz Literature Prize from University of Pittsburgh Press. + During the ten years that most of the stories in Dog…

Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their process for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Tim Weed writes about A Field Guide to Murder & Fly Fishing from Green Writers Press. + Some fiction writers start with concept or character. I start with place. Not place…

Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their process for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Christopher Kang writes about When He Sprang From His Bed, Staggered Backward, And Fell Dead, We Clung Together With Faint Hearts, And Mutely Questioned Each Other from Green Mountains Review Books.…

Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their process for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Kenny Mooney writes about The Gift Garden. + Origins: The idea for the book came pretty much fully formed, at least in a loose sense. I basically woke up one day…

Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their process for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Lindsey Drager writes about The Lost Daughter Collective from Dzanc Books. + Two Stories Telling Each Other: On the Liminal I am taking the assignment of offering my research notes quite…

Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their process for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Annie Hartnett writes about Rabbit Cake from Tin House. + I was twenty-six that summer, which is young by nearly everyone’s standards, but there was one job I was too old…

Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their process for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Leyna Krow writes about I’m Fine, But You Appear To Be Sinking from Featherproof Books. + People often want to know if the snakes are real. They seem to worry less…