How to Research a Novel: Juventud
6 min readMar 22, 2020
Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their process for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Vanessa Blakeslee writes about from Curbside Splendor.
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When the premise for Juventud took root in my imagination and I knew the story largely took place in Colombia, one of my main concerns was how keep my own interest in the material for the months or years it takes to write a novel. The other was how to convincingly pull off a long-form prose work about a time and place I’d never been and a culture…
