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…

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…

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…

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.…

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…

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…