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…

Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their research for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Gary Amdahl writes about Across My Big Brass Bed from Artistically Declined Press. + The research for Across My Big Brass Bed took place more or less without the author knowing…

Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their research for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Celeste Ng writes about Everything I Never Told You from The Penguin Press. + People have asked me how much of Everything I Never Told You is made up and how…

Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their research for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Jonathan Gibbs writes about Randall from Galley Beggar Press. + Research was always going to be a tricky proposition for Randall, my novel about the Young British Artists, the art movement…

Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their research for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Ann Gelder writes about Bigfoot and the Baby from Bona Fide Books. + I’m going to say that I conducted the bulk of the research for Bigfoot and the Baby between the ages of nine and ten. According…

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…