Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their process for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Alice Kaltman writes about Dawg Towne from Word West. + Gaps: A Reflection on Research Back in the 1970’s when “dancing to the beat of a different drum” was applauded by…

Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their process for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Andy Abramowitz writes about Darling at the Campsite from Lake Union Publishing. + Research for Darling at the Campsite, or Why would anyone have to do research for Darling at the…

Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their process for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Shannon McLeod writes about Whimsy from Long Day Press. We’re also honored to have shared the first published excerpt from Whimsy in 2016. + Writing Through My Driving Phobia “Just merge,…

Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their process for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Gian Sardar writes about Take What You Can Carry from Lake Union Publishing. + He hid in a tank. He saved his family during a raid. Once, he even arrived at…

Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their process for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Claire Cox writes about Silver Beach from University of Massachusetts Press. + Stoner Mom My mother was a pothead, not a drunk: this was important. She started smoking pot in tenth…

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…