Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their research for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Nicholas Rombes writes about The Absolution of Roberto Acestes Laing from Two Dollar Radio. + In one of the most dangerous, “Lynchian” moments in David Lynch’s Mulholland Drive, Betty (Naomi Watts)…

Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their research for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Michael McGriff and J. M. Tyree write about Our Secret Life in the Movies from A Strange Object. + In 2009 we set out (and failed!) to watch every film 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, Alden Jones writes about Unaccompanied Minors from New American Press. + Of the seven stories in my collection, Unaccompanied Minors, the one that readers and reviewers seem most curious about is…

Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their research for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Sharon Erby writes about Parallel from Harvard Square Editions. + Change is a curious thing. As much as we humans may acknowledge the need for substantive change in our lives, so…

Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their research for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Anne Valente writes about By Light We Knew Our Names from Dzanc Books. + Because By Light We Knew Our Names is my first collection of stories, it includes a great…

Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their research for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Anjali Mitter Duva writes about Faint Promise of Rain from She Writes Press. + In Rajasthan, a desert state in the northwest of India, many five-year old children have never seen…

Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their research for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Trevor Richardson writes about Dystopia Boy: The Unauthorized Files from Montag Press. + Dystopia Boy: The Unauthorized Files is told by Emmett Anders, a member of The Watcher Security Agency, who…

Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their research for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Sarah Yaw writes about You Are Free To Go from Engine Books. + You Are Free To Go explores the relationship between the world inside and outside of the prison 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, Martha Baillie writes about The Search for Heinrich Schlögel from Tin House Books. + I wanted to research the life of Heinrich Schlögel but he did not yet exist. Eager to…

Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their research for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Emily St. John Mandel writes about Station Eleven from Knopf. + Station Eleven is a story about a traveling Shakespearean theatre company / orchestra in a post-apocalyptic North America, which is to say that the research required…

Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their research for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Laura Ellen Joyce writes about The Luminol Reels from Calamari Press. + The Luminol Reels developed over the course of around three years. It began as part of my doctoral research,…