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 Salesses writes about The Hundred-Year Flood from Little A. + Asking Prague for Its Myths: Conversational Research I was waking up late every day and taking the metro out to…

Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their process for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Paula McGrath writes about Generation from John Murray Originals. + Generation involved two very different kinds of research. First, there was the story itself. I’ve done some academic research in my…

Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their process for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Elizabeth Kadetsky writes about On the Island at the Center of the Center of the World from Nouvella Books. + There was something about the surreal odd misery of traveling alone.…

Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their process for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Gabriel Urza writes about All That Followed from Henry Holt & Co. + Writing All That Followed was at times daunting from a research perspective, in that the book deals tangentially…

Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their process for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Wendy S. Walters writes about Multiply/Divide: On the American Real and Surreal from Sarabande Books. + In Multiply/Divide: On the American Real and Surreal (Sarabande), I spend time thinking about real…

Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their process for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Ruth Galm writes about Into The Valley from Soho Press. + People ask me how I came up with the premise of my debut novel Into the Valley, about a woman…

Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their process for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Benjamin Johncock writes about The Last Pilot from Picador. + The Process of Process Novel-writing is a terrible business that only a lunatic or a fool would attempt. It’s slow, inefficient,…

Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their process for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Linda Mannheim writes about Above Sugar Hill from Influx Press. + In 1995, I became obsessed with an unsolved murder case. Bruce Bailey had gone missing in 1989. A newspaper article…

Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their process for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, George McCormick writes about Inland Empire from Queen’s Ferry Press. + When I think about the research I did while writing my short novel Inland Empire the first thing that strikes…

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 Trevelyan writes about The Weightless World from Galley Beggar Press. + The rooftop bar of the Godwin Hotel in Colaba offers a remarkable view of Mumbai’s skyline. One side shows…

Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their process for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Dennis Mahoney writes about Bell Weather from Henry Holt & Co. + Researching an Imaginary World Bell Weather was my first foray into worldbuilding. Put simply, I made everything up as…

Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their process for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Nick Ripatrazone writes about Ember Days from Braddock Avenue Books. + “Ember Days,” the titular novella of my new collection of stories, began as a five-page story set in the shadow…