Category: Research Notes
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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,…
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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…