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…

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,…

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…

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…