Category: Research Notes
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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…
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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.…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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The Insides
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…