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…

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.…