Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their research for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Cyn Vargas writes about On The Way from Curbside Splendor. Republished in a second edition by Tortoise Books in 2021. + My Way to On The Way The fourteen stories in…

Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their research for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Holly LeCraw writes about The Half-Brother from Doubleday Books. + Research. This is one of those topics where I don’t entirely trust myself. There are novelists out there who do copious…

Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their research for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Claire Fuller writes about Our Endless Numbered Days from Tin House. + A house in London My visit to the National Trust house, 2 Willow Road, in London wasn’t planned as…

Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their research for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Carola Dibbell writes about The Only Ones from Two Dollar Radio. + I started researching The Only Ones long before I ever dreamed of writing it. From 1974 till 1984, 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, 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…