Category: Research Notes
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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…
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The Swimmers
Our Translation Notes series invites literary translators to describe the process of bringing a recent book of fiction into English. In this installment, Lucas Lyndes writes about translating The Swimmers by Joaquín Pérez Azaústre (Frisch & Co.). + The kinds of books that most interest me in my role as translator are the ones written…
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Fort Starlight
Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their research for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Claudia Zuluaga writes about Fort Starlight (Engine Books). + When I moved to Florida at the age of 15, I lived in a villa-minium at the edge of the grid, or…
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Some Day
Our Translation Notes series invites literary translators to describe the process of bringing a recent book of fiction into English. In this installment, Yardenne Greenspan writes about translating Some Day by Shemi Zarhin (New Vessel Press). + The Flavor of Childhood: On Translating Shemi Zarhin’s Some Day The characters in Shemi Zarhin’s debut novel, Some…
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Domesticated Wild Things and Other Stories
Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their research for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Xhenet Aliu writes about Domesticated Wild Things and Other Stories (University of Nebraska Press). + Recently I read a Goodreads review of a story collection that cautions the readers that the…
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Beauty On Earth
Our Translation Notes series invites literary translators to describe the process of bringing a recent book of fiction into English. In this installment, Michelle Bailat-Jones writes about translating Beauty On Earth by Charles Ferdinand Ramuz (Onesuch Press). + Generalities: It all begins with language. How do these words work together? Who is speaking and how…
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Rapeseed
Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their research for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Nancy Freund writes about Rapeseed (Gobreau Press). + I remember few details from high school English classes, but I do remember learning that with Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury, a…
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Under This Terrible Sun
Our Translation Notes series invites literary translators to describe the process of bringing a recent book of fiction into English. In this installment, Megan McDowell writes about translating Under This Terrible Sun by Carlos Busqued (Frisch & Co.). + “Literature has saved me… This is the first time in my life that I know I’ve…
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Cowboys and East Indians
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…
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The Celestials
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…