There are few words that sound less inspiring than “research.”
In his introduction, Miller quotes from an essay by the scholar G. Thomas Tanselle called “Texts and Artifacts in the Electronic Era”: “The misconception that texts are easily extractable from books has contributed to policy decisions—all the more shocking for being deliberate—that will mark the present as an age of destruction on a scale beyond even that of the book burnings of the past.”
Ultimately, Miller hopes that the collection shines a light on an aspect of the writing life that is often ignored. “Research is a part of writing,” he says. “We tend to think of it as separate.”
