Category: Research Notes
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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…
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There
Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their research for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Heather Rounds writes about her novel There from Emergency Press. + First came some years of yearning to take a break from Baltimore, my home for over a decade, and then came Erbil —…
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Zinsky The Obscure
Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their research for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Ilan Mochari reveals how his high school yearbook quote and a “failed” first novel were the taproot for his debut novel, Zinsky the Obscure from Fomite Press. + My high school…
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A Handful of Sand
Our Translation Notes series invites literary translators to describe the process of bringing a recent book of fiction into English. In this installment, Will Firth writes about translating A Handful of Sand by Marinko Koscec (Istros Press). + I work as a literary translator and mainly translate novels and short stories for publishers in Britain…
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Spider in a Tree
Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their research for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Susan Stinson writes about her novel Spider In A Tree from Small Beer Press. + Years: Writing Fiction about Jonathan Edwards in Northampton Spider in a Tree is a historical novel…
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Trafalgar
Our Translation Notes series invites literary translators to describe the process of bringing a recent book of fiction into English. In this installment, Amalia Gladhart writes about translating Trafalgar by Angélica Gorodischer (Small Beer Press). + Empurpled and Bedamasked: Reading through Trafalgar Like many businessmen — at least a broad-strokes, half-mythical version of “the salesman”…
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The Revolution of Every Day
Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their research for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Cari Luna writes about her novel The Revolution of Every Day, out now from Tin House Books. + My debut novel, The Revolution of Every Day, is set in New York’s…
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The Fata Morgana Books
Our Translation Notes series invites literary translators to describe the process of bringing a recent book of fiction into English. In this installment, Charlotte Mandell writes about translating The Fata Morgana Books by Jonathan Littell (Two Lines Press). + I think I received the first Fata Morgana book in the mail, sent by Jonathan Littell,…
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The Facades
Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their research for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Eric Lundgren writes about his novel The Facades, out now from Overlook Press. + My first novel, The Facades, was researched in a highly haphazard way. Now that I’m out on…