Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their research for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Jon Clinch shows us how he developed his new novel The Thief of Auschwitz. + WHAT TO LEAVE IN, WHAT TO LEAVE OUT Bob Seger got it right in “Against the…

Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their research for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Brian Sousa writes about his novel-in-stories Almost Gone (Tagus Press). + There are a lot of ways that I could begin this. Almost Gone almost didn’t make it to the page.…

Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their research for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, David Berridge explores Copenhagen with The Fluxus President (Dark Windows Press). + I was in Copenhagen for the COP15 climate change talks in December 2009 when I began writing The Fluxus…

Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their research for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, JP Smith cracks the seal on his novel Airtight (Thomas & Mercer). + I’m of the opinion that writing fiction is about finding a place we haven’t discovered before, and it’s…

Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their research for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Jared Yates Sexton looks homeward toward the roots of his new collection An End To All Things (Atticus Books). + My grandma used to tell me stories about The Great Depression.…

Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their research for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Kat Meads writes about For You, Madam Lenin (Livingston Press). + Vladimir Lenin loved to wash dishes (and other discoveries) Quite a few of my North Carolina relatives consider my interest…

Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their research for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Erica Olson writes about her collection Recapture & Other Stories (Torrey House Press). Recapture’s Artifacts “All over Utah, the pots were unburying themselves.” This line is from “Everything Is Red,” one…

Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their research for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Jen Michalski writes about Could You Be With Her Now (Dzanc Books). + The two novellas in Could You Be With Her Now are like water and vinegar. One (“I Can Make…

Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their research for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Eliot Treichel traces the history of “Novitiate Falls,” a bonus story available as an ebook to accompany his recent collection Close To Fine (Ooligan Press). + 1. I’m fourteen years old,…

Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their research for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Adam Biles shows us Paris by night in his novel Grey Cats (3:AM Press). + It began as two stories, both of them sweated over and abandoned during a period of…

Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their research for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Antoine Wilson writes about Panorama City (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt). + By themselves, photographs seem very limited to me in their ability to convey a sense of place, or at least a sense…

Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their research for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Robert Kloss writes about The Alligators of Abraham (Mud Luscious Press). + The Alligators of Abraham was born from equal parts imagination, personal history, and research. This was not a harmonious…