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…

Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their research for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Gabriel Blackwell is on the trail of Lewis Archer for his new book Shadow Man (Civil Coping Mechanisms). + Shadow Man is an imitation of a biography of an imitation (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, Jonathan Taylor writes about Entertaining Strangers, a novel out now from Salt Publishing. + The title of my novel, Entertaining Strangers, originates from the well-known Biblical verse from Hebrews: ‘Be not…

Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their research for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Amber Sparks writes about May We Shed These Human Bodies (Curbside Splendor). + The Effect of all This Light Upon You The research process for me, especially when the piece is 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, Salvatore Pane shares the process behind his novel Last Call In The City Of Bridges (Braddock Avenue Books. + 1. Have a lot of feelings about being in your twenties during…