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…

Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their process for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Gisele Firmino writes about The Marble Army from Outpost 19. + When Brazilians were preparing themselves to vote for presidential elections for the first time after living through a military regime…

Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their process for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Paraic O’Donnell writes about The Maker of Swans from Weidenfeld & Nicolson. + By rights, The Maker of Swans ought to have required almost no research at all. The story interleaves…

Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their process for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Andrew F. Sullivan writes about Waste from Dzanc Books. + Renovating with the Easter Bunny The library was under renovation. The microfiche stations were down in the basement, tucked away 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, Lavinia Ludlow writes about Single Stroke Seven from Casperian Books. + Back in the ’90s, I’d find excuses to invite myself over to a friend’s cable-accessible house to watch VH1’s Behind…

Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their process for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Beth Hahn writes about The Singing Bone from Regan Arts. + My uncle was a hippie — a 70’s hippie, with friends who came back from Viet Nam, and friends who…

Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their process for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Kathy Fish and Robert Vaughan write about their collaborative collection Rift from Unknown Press. + Kathy Fish My “research” for the stories in Rift was mostly in the form of Googling…