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…

Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their process for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Ginger Eager writes about The Nature of Remains from New Issues Press. + In the broadest sense, the research for my novel, The Nature of Remains, began when I was twenty-one.…

Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their process for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Daniel Davis Wood writes about At the Edge of the Solid World from Brio Books. + Extremis has an awful talent for self-perpetuation. Extreme events beget extreme responses in those 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, Kathryn Brewster Haueisen writes about Mayflower Chronicles: The Tale of Two Cultures from Green Writers Press. + Research and a Remarkable Reunion My mother’s first major retirement project took her to…

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…

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…

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…

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…