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…

Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their process for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Christopher Boucher writes about Golden Delicious from Melville House. + Used bookstores are some of my favorite places on earth, and among them, the Montague Bookmill — in Montague, Massachusetts —…

Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their process for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Angela Woodward writes about Natural Wonders from Fiction Collective 2. + Natural Wonders is a collage as much as a novel. It’s squeezed out of an enormous amount of research on…

Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their process for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Melissa Goodrich writes about Daughters of Monsters from Jellyfish Highway. + I researched by euphemism. By incubating eggs. By getting aimless in the woods. By feeling with all my muscles when…

Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their process for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Julie Reverb writes about No Moon from Calamari Archive. + And sometimes — just sometimes — a girl on screen might remind him how it was with the Duchess, when she…