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…

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…

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…

Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their process for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Melanie Abrams writes about Meadowlark from Little A. + I started incubating Meadowlark twenty years ago when I happened upon Sally Mann’s photography book, Immediate Family, a series of provocative photographs…

Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their process for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Sarah Harris Wallman writes about Senseless Women, winner of the Juniper Prize for Fiction from University of Massachusetts Press. + The Cookies of Senseless Women I write in coffee shops. Cliché,…

Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their process for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Ann Lewinson writes about Still Life with Meredith from Outpost19. + Research for me is generally a haphazard process of taking things in, filing them away and revisiting them years later.…

Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their process for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Joyce Hinnefeld writes about The Beauty of Their Youth from Wolfson Press. + I’m thrilled to have a brief collection of my short stories published by Wolfson Press, as part 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, Michael Credico writes about Heartland Calamitous from Autumn House Press. + From Indiana The oldest story in the book is “I Bought Her a Bird,” about a woman and a man…

Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their process for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Sara Rauch writes about What Shines From It from Alternating Current Press. + My conclusion is that ghosts prefer to embody light. I know I am not alone in this suspicion.…

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 Tyler Williams writes about Let It Be Our Ruin from Arc Pair Press. + In the few months that I was in the Pampas, I never really felt like I…

Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their process for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Rob Roensch writes about The World and The Zoo from Outpost19. + Some parts of the zoo that did not make it into the book about the zoo The white peacock,…

Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their process for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Hugh Fulham-McQuillan writes about Notes on Jackson and His Dead from Dalkey Archive Press. + I have built many sandcastles in my life. An essential component has always been water. It…