Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their research for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Jeremy Hawkins writes about The Last Days of Video from Soft Skull Books. + I worked on this novel for over six years before finding a publisher, and for a significant…

Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their research for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Ellen Meeropol writes about On Hurricane Island from Red Hen Press. + Researching torture in Maine Standing in the security line at JFK Airport one day in 2008, I met my…

Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their research for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Jeremy M. Davies writes about Fancy from Ellipsis Press. + For a book nominally about cats, Fancy is rotten with music. Not that you’d necessarily notice. Fancy has two speakers: Mr.…

Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their research for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Sonja Greckol writes about Skein of Days from Pedlar Press. + Experimental poetics: writing as research in Skein of Days or Looking for Amygdala Christian Boltanski’s video installation and postcard collection…

Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their research for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Rikki Ducornet writes about The Deep Zoo from Coffee House Press. + + + “I will be true to you, whatever comes,” says the mother of three sons in the opening…

Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their research for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Mary Helen Specht writes about Migratory Animals from Soho Press. + FACT #1: Snow is not white. (A snowflake is a crystal; it only looks white because of light reflecting off…

Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their research for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Robert Repino writes about Mort(e) from Soho Press. + In the fall of 2009, I had a dream about a massive spacecraft — like the mother ship from Close Encounters of…

Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their research for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Vivek Shraya writes about She of the Mountains from Arsenal Pulp Press. + As a fiction and personal narrative writer, I tend to veer away from extensive research. For me, the…

Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their research for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Refe Tuma writes about What The Dinosaurs Did Last Night, written with Susan Tuma and published by Little, Brown. + Inspirational Mess-Making Throughout Recent History August 8, 1949 The paintings of…

Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their research for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Tommy Zurhellen writes about Armageddon, Texas and the other volumes of his Messiah Trilogy, all from Atticus Books. + Tommy Z Writes a Trilogy: Notes on the Rule of Three I.…

Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their research for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, James Tadd Adcox writes about Does Not Love from Curbside Splendor. + Notes on “Views of My Father Weeping” Barthelme was one of the first writers I fell in love with…

Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their research for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Honor Gavin writes about Midland from Penned in the Margins. + Truth/Dare I found it nauseous trying to force more characters into the world. There are enough characters already. I became…