Category: Research Notes
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Tarık Dursun K.
Our Translation Notes series invites literary translators to describe the process of bringing a text into English, or to offer perspectives on global literatures from which they translate. In this installment, Vuslat D. Katsanis writes about translating the story “Oh, My Life” by Tarık Dursun K. — also published here at Necessary Fiction. + A series…
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Love Give Us One Death
Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their process for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Jeff P. Jones writes about Love Give Us One Death: Bonnie and Clyde in the Last Days from Texas Review Press. + The Word Trap and the Novel This novel was…
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Letters from Dinosaurs
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 Letters From Dinosaurs from Thought Catalog. + It was the end of 2008 when I started writing short stories in earnest. The Great Recession had just begun,…
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Hola and Goodbye
Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their process for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Donna Miscolta writes about Hola and Goodbye from Carolina Wren Press. + After my grandmother died, there was no one to make the tamales. My mother and aunts no longer had…
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Pretend I’m Your Friend
Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their process for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, MB Caschetta writes about Pretend I’m Your Friend from Engine Books. + The forgiving nature of the short story I wrote the stories in the linked collection Pretend I’m Your Friend…
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The Adventures of Joe Harper
Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their process for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Phong Nguyen writes about The Adventures of Joe Harper from Outpost 19. + My new novel The Adventures of Joe Harper concerns Tom Sawyer’s best friend and first mate Joe Harper.…
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City of Weird
Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their process for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Art Edwards writes about his story “Waiting for the Question” in the anthology City of Weird: 30 Otherworldly Portland Tales, edited by Gigi Little and available from Forest Avenue Press. +…
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Potted Meat
Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their process for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Steven Dunn writes about Potted Meat from Tarpaulin Sky. + Potted Meat is two-fold, the first being a symbol of poverty. Secondly, it was always interesting to me how the label…
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The Solace of Monsters
Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their process for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Laurie Blauner writes about The Solace of Monsters from Leapfrog Press. + I, like my character Mara F, in my new novel The Solace of Monsters am composed of all the…
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The Sound of the Sundial
Our Translation Notes series invites literary translators to describe the process of bringing a recent book into English, or to offer perspectives on global literatures from which they translate. In this installment, Rachel Miranda Feingold writes about editing and adapting Hana Adronikova’s The Sound of the Sundial, translated from the Czech by David Short, for Plamen Press.…
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Of This New 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, Allegra Hyde writes about her collection Of This New World, winner of the John Simmons Short Fiction Award from University of Iowa Press. + Fiction doesn’t happen in a vacuum. For…
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The Remnants
Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their process for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Robert Hill writes about The Remnants from Forest Avenue Press. + An Anti-Contemporary Novel That’s Not Totally About Sex You know those novels in which the protagonist is a former city-dwelling…