Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their research for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Nina McConigley writes about Cowboys and East Indians (Five Chapters Books). + Before I went to graduate school, I worked at the Casper Star-Tribune, Wyoming’s largest newspaper, as the Assistant State…

Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their research for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Karen Shepard writes about The Celestials (Tin House Books). + So. Photographs. They seem to be something I return to again and again in my fiction. My first novel was based…

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 Olson writes about The Seeing Machine (Quale Press). + I hit a wall as soon as I began writing my novel about Cubist French painter Georges Braque. It wasn’t what…

Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their research for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Pamela Erens writes about The Virgins (Tin House). + Based on the research I did for my second novel, The Virgins, here is a book I might have written: (Feminist mystery…

Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their research for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Catherine Gammon writes about Sorrow (Braddock Avenue Books). + After the fact. Twenty years after the fact. More than twenty years. Notes, right? Not endnotes. An origin story. Or notes for…

Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their research for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Pippa Goldschmidt writes about The Falling Sky (Freight Books). + Doing a PhD in astronomy was research for writing my novel, although I didn’t know it at the time. I was…

Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their research for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Ryan O’Neill writes about The Weight of a Human Heart (St. Martin’s Press). + I spent most of my twenties researching for my short story collection, The Weight of a Human…

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 Barnes writes about Something Pretty, Something Beautiful (Outpost 19). + Drinking Beer on Pacific Ave When I was a kid growing up in Tacoma, the city’s strip of adult bookstores…

Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their research for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Matthew Salesses writes about I’m Not Saying, I’m Just Saying (Civil Coping Mechanisms). + I remember an episode of House in which a man suffers some brain disorder that inhibits his…

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 Sullivan writes about All We Want is Everything (Arbeiter Ring). + Recipes for research behind All We Want is Everything. Good King Start with a bottling. Add some Flintstones vitamins. Dwayne…

Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their research for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Richard Melo writes about Happy Talk (Red Lemonade). + ‘Sick, sick, sick, sick, sick!’ Or How I Learned to Write Period Dialogue Without the Aid of a Time Machine It used 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, Aubrey Hirsch writes about Why We Never Talk About Sugar (Braddock Street Books). + A Brief Guide to Research in Why We Never Talk About Sugar: Four Stories “Hydrogen Event in a…