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…

Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their research for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Katey Schultz writes about Flashes of War (Apprentice House). + In my experience, the best stories always begin with unanswered questions. Writing through the unknown toward the known has a great, humbling…

Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their research for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, J.M. Ledgard writes about Submergence, a novel out now from Coffee House Press. + Literature in a time of species survival What if I tell you there is another world in our…

Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their research for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Curtis Smith writes about Beasts & Men, out now from Press 53. + I trend toward the packrat-ish. It’s one of my more benign character flaws. I assign inflated emotional values 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, Roxanne Carter writes about her recent books Glamorous Freak (Jaded Ibis) and Beyond This Point Are Monsters
 (Sidebrow). + lately i have been worried about where to start. i struggle with…

Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their research for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Jessica Penner writes about Shaken In The Water, out now from Foxhead Books. + My novel-in-stories, Shaken in the Water, takes place in a little Kansas town and spans three generations…