Alex Adam asked Charlie Lovett:

I am intrigued by your recent rereading of books that an upcoming character will have read as 'deep research' for your upcoming novel. Will you please tell us more about your research, deep or otherwise, for your writing? Thanks! 8)

Charlie Lovett Thanks for the question, Alex. I'm in the very early stages of work on my next novel (even though the new one isn't even out yet) so I can't say too much because I don't know too much. I do know that parts of it will be set in New York City in the early 20th century and that at least one of the characters grew up on boys adventure novels, yellow-backs, dime, novels, etc. But he also read what we now think of as early science fiction. So, I've been rereading Jules Verne (for example) but also reading (for the first time) H. G. Wells. I'm also trying to delve into the history (and social history) of New York at the time so I've been reading a lot of newspapers from the Library of Congress digital archive. I will probably read some academic studies at some point, but I really prefer that raw reporting one gets in original newspapers—and even if those reports are flawed, they are the reports my characters would have read.

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