Secrets of successful fiction

The secrets of great mystery and suspense fiction

Mystery and suspense fiction

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Secrets of great mystery and suspense fiction: course guidebook. ©2016.

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Mystery fiction's secret formula ; The detective is born ; The criminal ; The sidekick ; Detecting clues ; Case closed?: the problem with solutions -- The locked room ; The dime novel ; Murder in cozy places ; Return of the classic detective ; The city tests the detective ; The private eye opens -- African American mysteries ; The femme fatale ; The private eye evolves ; Latino detectives on the border ; The lady detective ; Violence waits in the wings -- Violence takes center stage ; Psychopaths and mind hunters ; Police as antagonist ; Police as protagonist ; Native American mysteries ; The European mystery tradition -- Nordic noir ; Japanese and Latin American mysteries ; Precursors to true crime ; True crime in the 20th century ; Historical mysteries ; Spies, thrillers, and conspiracies -- Female-centered mystery and suspense ; Poetic justice ; Courtroom drama ; Gay and lesbian mystery and suspense ; Adapting the multimedia mystery ; Mysterious experiments.

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The secrets of great mystery and suspense fiction [DVD]

Great courses. Literature & language. Genre

Great courses (DVD). Literature & language, Genre.

All our secrets are the same : new fiction from Esquire

Esquire (New York, N.Y.)

Open secrets : literature, education, and authority from J-J. Rousseau to J.M. Coetzee

Introduction : the pedagogical circle and the 'open secret' -- Imaginary authority in Rousseau's Emile -- The comedy of educational errors : (A) Sterne's Tristram Shandy and (B) C.M. Wieland's History of Agathon -- Goethe's open secrets : Wilhelm Meister's apprenticeship -- Pedagogy, fiction, and the art of renunciation : Wilhelm Meister's journeymanship, or the renunciants -- Nietzsche as educator and the implosion of Bildung -- 'The passion of instruction' : D.H. Lawrence and 'wholeness' versus Bildung -- The importance of being frank : criticism, collaboration, pedagogy in F.R. Leavis -- The novelist, the lecturer, and the limits of persuasion : J.M. Coetzee and Elizabeth Costello on the lives of animals and men.

Family trouble : memoirists on the hazards and rewards of revealing family

Introduction : mapping hope / Chewing band-aids : one memoirist's take on the telling of family secrets / Sally could delete whatever she wanted / Case by case : when it comes to family you still have to talk to / At its center / The day I cried at Starbucks / Memory lessons / The part I can't tell you / What the little old ladies feel : how I told my mother about my memoir / Truths we could live with / Writing the black family home / The deeper end of the quarry : fiction, nonfiction, and the family dilemma / Mama's voices / Living in someone else's closet / The true story / I might be famous / A spell against sorrow : writing my father in / Things we don't talk about / You can't burn everything / Done with grief : the memoirist's illusion / The seed book / Calling back / Like rain on dust / The bad Asian daughter / Your mother should know / Writing about family

Kiosk literature of Silver Age Spain : modernity and mass culture

Kiosk literature and the enduring ephemeral / Literary collections / Between secrets and simulations : women writers in La novela de noche / Backward modernity? The masculine lesbian in Spanish sicaliptic literature / Literary medicine, medical literature : César Juarros and La novela de hoy / Celebrity, sex, and mass readership : the case of Álvaro Retana / Virtual Álvaro Retana : recovery and fandom in the digital age / Cinema literacy in cinema fan magazines and the Novela cinematográfica / Technology, cosmopolitanism, and female sexuality in La novela semanal cinematográfica (1922-32) / La novela femenina : a collection by women writers in the 1920s / Getting away with wife murder : article 438 in the press and popular fiction / Carmen de Burgos : teaching women of the modern age / Sports-themed kiosk novelettes and the Silver Age debate on tradition and modernity / Joaquín Belda's "tourist postcards" : the origin and foil of his novels (1924-31) / Reading and the street : an inventory of Madrid kiosks in 1911 / Modeling kiosk literary collections for the Mnemosyne Digital Library / Kiosk literature as a geography of cultural objects

How to write a mystery : a handbook from Mystery Writers of America

The rules and genres. The rules and when to break them / Carolyn Hart ; Keeping it thrilling / Beth Amos ; Insider, outsider: the amateur sleuth / Lindsey Davis ; Finding Lou: the police procedural / Linwood Barclay ; The mindset of darkness: writing noir / Hank Phillippi Ryan ; Crossing the genres / Kate White ; The historical mystery / Suzanne Chazin ; The medical thriller / Gigi Pandian ; Researching the spy thriller / Stephanie Kane -- Other mysteries. Mysteries for children: an introduction / S. M. Surrisi ; Unleash your inner child ; Chris Grabenstein ; Elizabeth Sims ; The young adult mystery / Pat Gallant Weich ; Graphic novels / Dag Öhrlund ; The short mystery / Charles Salzberg ; Ten stupid questions about true crime / Carold Buggé -- The writing. On style / Steve Hockensmith ; Always outline! / Rob Hart ; Hallie Ephron ; Never outline! / Shelly Frome ; The art of the rewrite / Rae Franklin James ; Leslie Budewitz ; Plot and the bones of a mystery / Tim Maleeny ; Robert Lopresti ; Diversity in crime fiction / Elaine Viets ; The protagonist / Stephanie Kay Bendel ; The villain of the piece / Kris Neri ; Supporting characters / Gay Toltl Kinman ; Writing the talk / Bradley Harper ; Stephen Ross ; Setting / Thomas B. Sawyer ; Humor in crime fiction / James W. Ziskin ; Writing in partnership / Bradley Harper ; Tie-ins and continuing a character / Hal Bodner -- After the writing. Secrets of a book critic / Marilyn Stasio ; Self-publishing / Nancy J. Cohen ; Authors online / Mysti Berry ; Building your community / Bev Vincent ; Legal considerations

Writers on writing : collected essays from The New York times ; introduction by John Darnton.

New York times.

Poems Foster Self-Discovery / A Path Taken, with All the Certainty of Youth / Essentials Get Lost in the Shuffle of Publicity / Timeless Tact Helps Sustain a Literary Time Traveler / Yes, There Are Second Acts (Literary Ones) in American Lives / Footprints of Greatness on Your Turf / New Insights into the Novel? Try Reading Three Hundred / Returning to Proust's World Stirs Remembrance / Forget Ideas, Mr. Author. What Kind of Pen Do You Use? / In Paris and Moscow, a Novelist Finds His Time and Place / Recognizing the Book That Needs to Be Written / How to Insult a Writer / Calming the Inner Critic and Getting to Work / A Narrator Leaps Past Journalism / They Leap from Your Brain Then Take Over Your Heart / When Inspiration Stared Stoically from an Old Photograph / A Career Despite Dad's Advice / Seeing the Unimaginable Freezes the Imagination / Hemingway's Blessing, Copland's Collaboration / Returning to the Character Who Started It All / Negotiating the Darkness, Fortified by Poets' Strength / Hometown Boy Makes Waves / As Her Son Creates His Story, a Mother Waits for the Ending / The Glory of a First Book / Easy on the Adverbs, Exclamation Points and Especially Hooptedoodle / A Famous Author Says: "Swell Book! Loved It!" / Hearing the Notes That Aren't Played / Heroism in Trying Times / Shattering the Silence, Illuminating the Hatred / Overcome by Intensity, Redeemed by Effort / A Novelist's Life Is Altered by Her Alter Ego / Computers Invite a Tangled Web of Complications / Saluting All the King's Mentors / Why Not Put Off Till Tomorrow the Novel You Could Begin Today? / The Eye of the Reporter, the Heart of the Novelist / A Retreat from the World Can Be a Perilous Journey / After Six Novels in Twelve Years, a Character Just Moves On / Fiction and Fact Collide, with Unexpected Consequences / Confession Begets Connection / A Storyteller Finds Comfort in a Cloak of Anonymity / Autumnal Accounting Endangers Happiness / Family Ghosts Hoard Secrets That Bewitch the Living / A Bedeviling Question in the Cadence of English / Still Replying to Grandma's Persistent "And Then?" / A Pseudonym Returns from an Alter-Ego Trip, with New Tales to Tell / Before a Rendezvous with the Muse, First Select the Music

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