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…

Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their research for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Scott Garson writes about Is That You, John Wayne?, out April 30 from Queen’s Ferry Press. + It could probably be pointed out that in most things, if I bother 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, Fiona Maazel writes about Woke Up Lonely (Graywolf Press). + When I begin researching a new project, it often seems like what I’m actually doing is researching myself to find out 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, Samuel Sattin writes about “League of Somebodies“http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780985035501, out now from Dark Coast Press. + THE UNAVOIDABLES I remember after finishing the first draft of League of Somebodies (and by draft I…

Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their research for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Amy Sackville writes about Orkney, out now from Counterpoint Press. + My approach to research is scattergun, catholic, greedy; I don’t know what I’m looking for until I find it, and…