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Category: Research Notes

  • Alejandro Jodorowsky

    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, Alfred MacAdam writes about translating the novels of Alejandro Jodorowsky for Restless Books. + Sometime in 2012, I received an email from Ilán…

  • Return on Investment

    Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their process for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Magdalena Waz writes about Return on Investment from Fiction Attic Press. + Challenge #1 was to use some element of exaggeration to consider a world in which everyone is imbued with…

  • The Revolutionaries Try Again

    Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their process for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Mauro Javier Cardenas writes about The Revolutionaries Try Again from Coffee House Press. + The Brothers Restrepo and The Revolutionaries Try Again If someone would have asked me what type of…

  • Crepuscule W/ Nellie

    Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their process for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Joe Milazzo writes about Crepuscule W/ Nellie from Jaded Ibis Press. + The jacket copy for my novel, Crepuscule W/ Nellie, classifies it as belonging to the genre of “speculative historical…

  • It’s All about the Stories: A Few Words on Romanian Letters

    Several times over the last few years I’ve been invited to talk about Romanian fiction for North American audiences. This is when I noticed that most of the titles I wanted to discuss were virtually unknown to English-speaking readers, yet they are often standard for Romanian connoisseurs. Some of these titles, at least for readers…

  • Not a Self-Help Book

    Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their process for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Yi Shun Lai writes about Not a Self-Help Book: The Misadventures of Marty Wu from Shade Mountain Press. + Some research notes for Not a Self-Help Book: The Misadventures of Marty Wu, a novel in diary form…

  • MOVIEOLA!

    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 Domini writes about MOVIEOLA! from Dzanc Books. + The Long Way to “Where?” The interviewer wants answers, but the first question stumps me. I’m glad to have a new book,…

  • Insurrections

    Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their process for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Rion Amilcar Scott writes about Insurrections from University Press of Kentucky. + Three Insurrections It’s said that when an elder dies it’s as if a library has burned. When my grandmother…

  • Clothed, Female Figure

    Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their process for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Kirstin Allio writes about Clothed, Female Figure from Dzanc Books. + There’s a braided relationship between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law; the marriage is the third strand. Three-part harmony, unity, or multivalent discord.…

  • IRL

    Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their process for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Timmy Reed writes about IRL from Outpost 19. + The research on this book was a strange process, relative to most of the others I have put out. When I wrote…

  • The Voyager Record

    Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their process for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Anthony Michael Morena writes about The Voyager Record: A Transmission from Rose Metal Press. + I like to think of research as infotainment, something that should be as much fun for…

  • POP!

    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 Polanzak writes about POP! from Stillhouse Press. + POP! is a memoir of fiction. It’s also about death, loss, grief, not grieving right, pain, and humor. The book operates in…