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.…

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…

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…

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…

Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their process for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Jeremy P. Bushnell writes about The Insides from Melville House. + My first novel, The Weirdness, was about the supernatural underbelly of the New York City literary world. As I approached…

Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their process for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Sequoia Nagamatsu writes about Where We Go When All We Were Is Gone from Black Lawrence Press. + Where We Go When All We Were Is Gone is a collection of…

Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their process for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Martin Seay writes about The Mirror Thief from Melville House. + The Mirror Thief is set in three cities, all of which are versions of Venice, none of which I was…

Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their process for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Gary Amdahl writes about The Daredevils from Soft Skull. + Records of the earliest work on The Daredevils can be found at two sites, one in Minneapolis, one in Saint Paul,…

Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their process for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Katie Chase writes about Man and Wife from A Strange Object. + The stories that make up Man and Wife were written over a period of ten years. Two were originally…

Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their process for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Sherrie Flick writes about Whiskey, Etc. from Queens Ferry Press. Whiskey, Etc. or My Life’s Research The research for my short story collection Whiskey, Etc. is my adult life lived. 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, Dinah Cox writes about Remarkable from BOA Editions. + The junior high school book report assignment, that necessary but onerous rite of passage, once inspired me to fabricate a book title…

Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their process for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Matthew Binder writes about High in the Streets from Roundfire Books. + Creation Story Four years ago, I was in the middle of a twelve-hour drive across the desert between Albuquerque…