Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their process for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Juan Martinez writes about Best Worst Americans from Small Beer Press. + Necessary Photobombs The short stories in Best Worst American draw from, among other places, a flotsam of visual arcana…

Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their process for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Tom McAllister writes about The Young Widower’s Handbook from Algonquin Books. + When people ask how my wife feels about my having written a book about a young man’s wife dying,…

Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their process for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Laura Ellen Scott writes about The Mean Bone in Her Body from Pandamoon Publishing. + The Mean Bone in Her Body is my most intentional mystery novel, the first of 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, Ruth Gilligan writes about Nine Folds Make a Paper Swan from Tin House. + They say that you should “write what you know”. And then they say it again. So 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, Kathleen Rooney writes about Lillian Boxfish Takes A Walk from St. Martin’s Press. + The Margaret Fishback Papers Back in May of 2007, thanks to a tip from my best-friend-from-high-school Angela…

Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their process for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Meredith Alling writes about Sing The Song from Future Tense Books. + A big part of writing for me is note-taking. Most of the time a “note” is just a few…

Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their process for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Grant Maierhofer writes about Flamingos from Itna Press. + The writing and unwriting of the manuscript that became Flamingos started with disparate elements and fragments, all guided by a thematic impulse…

Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their process for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Kelcey Parker Ervick writes about The Bitter Life of Božena Němcová from Rose Metal Press. + It’s March 2003, flights to Berlin are less than $400. Why not fly to Berlin…

Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their process for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, James Tadd Adcox writes about Repetition from Cobalt Press. + I wrote the first draft of Repetition over a three-day period, from August 29th to September 1st, 2014. My goal, originally, was to write 30,000 words over these…

Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their process for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Tobias Carroll writes about Reel from Rare Bird Books. + How Zines Got Me to Seattle As with plenty of things in my life, the road to my novel Reel started…

Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their process for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Sam Allingham writes about The Great American Songbook from A Strange Object. + Research is fun, and also fun to ignore. When I was working on my collection The Great American…