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,…

Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their research for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Daniel Davis Wood writes about Blood and Bone from Seizure. + “The ugly fact is books are made out of books,” Cormac McCarthy once said. “The novel depends for its life…

Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their research for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Bronwyn Mauldin writes about Love Songs Of The Revolution from CCCLaP Publishing. + Small town, brown dog While researching my novel, Love Songs of the Revolution, I took a few hours…

Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their research for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Rebecca Lawton writes about Steelies and Other Endangered Species from Little Curlew Press. + Rebecca Lawton, The Playbunny Interview Q: Ms. Lawton, it’s good to have you with us. Your new…

Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their research for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Christy Crutchfield writes about How To Catch A Coyote from Publishing Genius Press. + 2005 The coyotes were getting brave. My friend was now living in the farther suburbs of Atlanta…

Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their research for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Joshua Kornreich writes about Knotty, Knotty, Knotty from Black Mountain Press. + It started with his name: Shawn. Only, for so long a time, I had been seeing his name 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, Sharona Muir writes about Invisible Beasts from Bellevue Literary Press . + My new novel, Invisible Beasts, narrated by a naturalist who sees invisible creatures, began as a game I played…

Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their research for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Letitia Trent writes about Echo Lake from Dark House Press. + The Missing: Echo Lake began after a conversation with my in-laws about mysteriously missing people and unsolved murders in the…