Category: Research Notes
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Soy Sauce For Beginners
Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their research for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Kirstin Chen writes about Soy Sauce for Beginners from New Harvest Books. + To Soy Sauce Enlightenment and Back My mother was visiting me in San Francisco, and after a string…
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What Ends
Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their research for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Andrew Ladd writes about What Ends from New Issues Press. + I grew up in Scotland, so you might think writing a novel set there would be easy. Throw in a…
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Pages from the Textbook of Alternate History
Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their research for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Phong Nguyen writes about Pages from the Textbook of Alternate History from Queen’s Ferry Press. + Ground Rules At a certain point, during the writing of Pages from the Textbook of…
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A Highly Unlikely Scenario, or a Neetsa Pizza Employee’s Guide to Saving the World
Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their research for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Rachel Cantor writes about A Highly Unlikely Scenario, or a Neetsa Pizza Employee’s Guide to Saving the World from Melville House. + Evading the Scramasax Leonard, complaints guy for a national…
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The Heart of June
Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their research for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Mason Radkoff writes about The Heart of June from Braddock Avenue Books. + RESEARCH FROM WITHIN In an instant, I just had him. Walking alone by the Atlantic Ocean, having been…
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Mr Darwin’s Gardener
Our Translation Notes series invites literary translators to describe the process of bringing a recent book of fiction into English. In this installment, Emily Jeremiah writes about co-translating Mr Darwin’s Gardener by Kristina Carlson (Peirene Press). + Kristina Carlson’s Mr Darwin’s Gardener is a daring, witty, and profound novel about reason and faith, science and…
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I Stole The Rain
Our Translation Notes series invites literary translators to describe the process of bringing a recent book of fiction into English. In this installment, Lisa McCreadie writes about translating I Stole The Rain by Elisa Ruotolo (Frisch & Co). + What initially struck you about the book when you first read it? I think what first…
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Creature
Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their research for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Amina Cain writes about Creature from The Dorothy Project. + 1. rejection in The Ravishing of Lol Stein by Marguerite Duras 2. California 3. a cameo necklace 4. Dorothea in George Eliot’s Middlemarch…
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Play Pretty Blues
Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their research for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Snowden Wright writes about his novel Play Pretty Blues from Engine Books. + On June 15, 2000, in the Supreme Court of Mississippi, a hearing was held, the Estate of Robert…
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A Swift Passage
Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their research for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Barbara Henning writes about her collection A Swift Passage from Quale Press. + A Swift Passage is a collection of prose pieces (and one lined-sonnet sequence) that I have written in…
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Isle of Youth
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 van den Berg writes about her novel Isle of Youth from FSG. + When it comes to place, The Isle of Youth is a mix of autobiography, invention, and research.…
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This Darksome Burn
Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their research for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Nick Ripatrazone writes about his novella This Darksome Burn from firthForth Books. + 1. Hallways and bedrooms. The Shining, The Exorcist, A Nightmare on Elm Street, Halloween, Black Christmas, and The…