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Showing posts with label pulp fiction. Show all posts

Showing posts with label pulp fiction. Show all posts

Monday, May 19, 2025

Let's Talk Tropes

by Thomas Kies I taught a class last week on the campus of NC State University to room of fifty mystery buffs. The subject of the talk was...

Saturday, July 27, 2024

The Nostalgia of Texas Gothic and Horror

Last Monday, I had the pleasure of moderating the Q&A and book signing of I Was A Teenage Slasher with one of my favorite authors, Step...

Monday, June 26, 2023

Love a Good MacGuffin!!!

by Thomas Kies In his last blog, Mario Acevedo mentioned a story device called a MacGuffin. What exactly is a MacGuffin? The term origina...

Monday, September 13, 2021

Sometimes less is more

John Corrigan's post a few days ago about short novels resonated with me. My crime reading tastes were honed by Ed McBain and his 87th P...

Monday, July 27, 2020

We Are What We Read

I’m nearly at the end of teaching my Creative Writing class and it’s been as much of a learning experience for me as it has for them. We ...

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