Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their process for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Jen Fawkes writes about Mannequin and Wife from Louisiana State University Press. + How to Write Mannequin and Wife Step one: At age four, wake in a smoke-filled room, coughing. Hear…

Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their process for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Eman Quotah writes about Bride of the Sea from Tin House Books. + In my writing, I’m obsessed with history and how we remember it, how societies tell their histories and…

Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their process for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Julia Fine writes about The Upstairs House from Harper Books. + Planning Diana Barrymore’s 1941 Going Away Party (From My Writing Desk in 2018) Who: Diana Barrymore, only daughter of Michael…

Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their process for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Mike Fiorito writes about Falling From Trees from Apprentice House. + Thinking Human As an undergraduate in the mid-eighties at NYU, I had the privilege to study with Derek Parfit who…

Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their process for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Gabriel Blackwell writes about Babel from Splice Books. + My first thought when thinking about the research done for Babel was a kind of confusion, fitting, I think, for my thoughts…

Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their process for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Rebecca Fishow writes about The Trouble with Language from Trnsfr Books. + 1. Naturalistic Observation Anything can be hidden. Fiction writers are spies, thieves, magicians, inventors, but they do not want…

Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their process for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Bradley Bazzle writes about Fathers Of Cambodian Time-Travel Science from C&R Press. + In his book Barley Patch, published in the U.S. by Dalkey Archive, the Australian writer Gerald Murnane gives…

Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their process for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Brett Biebel writes about 48 Blitz from Split/Lip Press. + When I was a kid, my dad would throw me the atlas as we started out on our annual family vacation,…

Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their process for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Oscar Mancinas writes about To Live And Die In El Valle from Arte Publico Press. + El Precio del Pasaje The opening scene of the 1991 documentary Hearts of Darkness: A…

Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their process for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Joseph Fasano writes about The Dark Heart of Every Wild Thing from Platypus Press. + In the late winter of 2016, the partial manuscript of my novel, The Dark Heart of…

Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their process for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Ron Nyren writes about The Book of Lost Light from Black Lawrence Press. + My novel The Book of Lost Light came to me initially in the form of a question:…

Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their process for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Ellen Birkett Morris writes about Lost Girls from Touchpoint Press. + Beg, Borrow and Steal There is a lot of voyeurism in my short story collection Lost Girls. A virgin watches…