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Category: Research Notes

  • Sybelia Drive

    Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their process for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Karin Cecile Davidson writes about Sybelia Drive from Braddock Avenue Books. + Five things I didn’t expect to research for Sybelia Drive The blueprint of a 1960s one-story contemporary home, perfect…

  • Living Color: Angie Rubio Stories

    Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their process for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Donna Miscolta writes about Living Color: Angie Rubio Stories from Jaded Ibis Press. + Sorta, Kinda Research When your work of fiction is sorta, kinda semi-autobiographical, you rely less on research…

  • The Ancestor

    Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their process for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Lee Matthew Goldberg writes about The Ancestor from Down & Out Books. + Research is one of my favorite parts of being a fiction writer. It’s less stressful than the actual…

  • A Place Remote

    Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their process for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Gwen Goodkin writes about A Place Remote from West Virginia University Press. + From Beginning to End: The Path a Story — and Its Book — Take to Arrive at Their…

  • Anthropica

    Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their process for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, David Hollander writes about Anthropica from Animal Riot Press. + Another Kind of Myth-Making My favorite of the logical fallacies is the “argument from incredulity.” I cannot imagine that ‘x’ can…

  • Cher Ami and Major Whittlesey

    Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their process for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Kathleen Rooney writes about Cher Ami and Major Whittlesey from Penguin Books. + On the Unexpected Joy of Being Told to “Look It Up” World War I has always saddened and…

  • I Keep My Worries in My Teeth

    Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their process for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Anna Cox writes about I Keep My Worries in My Teeth from Little A. + My novel, I Keep My Worries in My Teeth begins and ends inside a camera obscura.…

  • Instances of Head-Switching

    Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their process for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Teresa Milbrodt writes about Instances of Head-Switching from Shade Mountain Press. + The best way to research physical disability is to be alive for awhile. At minimum you’ll wear out your…

  • Life of the Party

    Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their process for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Tea Hacic-Vlahovic writes about Life of the Party from Clash Books. + What does a writer do? Not a goddamn thing. They know how to think or how to drink. That’s…

  • The Distance from Four Points

    Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their process for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Margo Orlando Littell writes about The Distance from Four Points from University of New Orleans Press. + When Research Becomes Too Real My novel The Distance from Four Points is about…

  • Audubon’s Sparrow

    Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their process for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Juditha Dowd writes about Audubon’s Sparrow from Rose Metal Press. + Letters to the Self: Finding the Person in the Persona Poem Ten years ago, on a bone-chilling winter night in…

  • Impossible Children

    Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their process for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Robert Yune writes about Impossible Children from Sarabande Books. + Snow Globes, Ghost Barrels, and Deep Breaths: Some Notes on Korea According to John Gardner, there are two stories: someone leaves…