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 Long writes about Out of Peel Tree from Vandalia / West Virginia University Press. + My research for Out of Peel Tree, a novel in stories about a fragmented family,…

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 Piafsky writes about All the Happiness You Deserve from Prospect Park Books. + My novel, All the Happiness You Deserve, spans a man’s life, from an early childhood in 1950s Missouri through late-middle age. The novel…

Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their research for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Tom Williams writes about Don’t Start Me Talkin’ from Curbside Splendor. + Despite three degrees and ample opportunities to improve as an academic researcher, I am little different from the freshman…

Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their research for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Norman Lock writes about The Boy In His Winter from Bellevue Literary Press. + “I became a tourist on the Internet.” — Huck Finn, in his 70s To be asked 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, Kate Racculia writes about Bellweather Rhapsody from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. + Write What You Remember It’s 1997. I am seventeen. It’s the November of my senior year, and I am at…

Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their research for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Elizabeth McCracken writes about Thunderstruck & Other Stories from The Dial Press. + Of all my achievements, I am most proud of my library science degree. It’s like a astrological sign,…

Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their research for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Jaime Clarke writes about Vernon Downs from Roundabout Press. + As Vernon Downs is a roman a clef, you might assume that a ton of research went into writing the novel.…

Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their research for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Leesa Cross-Smith writes about Every Kiss A War from Mojave River Press. + Be very comfortable in second person. Listen to “Crimson and Clover” on repeat. Whenever “Layla” comes on, turn…

Our Translation Notes series invites literary translators to describe the process of bringing a recent book of fiction into English. In this installment, Charlotte Barslund writes about translating A Fairy Tale by Jonas T. Bengtsson (Other Press). + Despite its title, A Fairy Tale is a novel for adults, but told in the first person…

Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their research for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, TaraShea Nesbit writes about The Wives Of Los Alamos from Bloomsbury. + 1. Peggy Pond Church: Such joy it is to be the first to bend the cool, sweet grass. 2. Natalie Mirenda writes her husband after…

Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their research for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, John Henry Fleming writes about Songs for the Deaf from Burrow Press. + Idleness as Research, or The Varieties of Unproductive Experience If research is a path to understanding, I take…