In the glad old days, before the rise of modern morbidities…it used to be thought a disadvantage to be misunderstood. ― G.K. Chesterton In the first two parts of this series, I gave a definition for the novel and traced its origins. We examined its evolution from 980 AD to the late 1800s. And along […]
Monthly Archives: February 2014
In Part I, I wrote about early crime fiction, its Golden Age, and Hard-boiled American crime fiction. It should come as no surprise that the favorite fiction book genre among readers is mystery, thriller and crime. With the popularity of Agatha Christie, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Dorothy Sayres, Dashiell Hammet, and other writers, crime fiction […]
In detective crime fiction, there must be a crime, typically a murder; an investigative process, and a solution to the crime or satisfactory conclusion. We can thank Edgar Allan Poe for what is now the most popular type of fiction. The master of gothic and the macabre introduced Parisian crime solver Auguste Dupin in 1841 […]
Today, Readers Unbound welcomes guest blogger Sigrid Fry-Revere, whose book The Kidney Sellers will launch March 1st. Dr. Fry-Revere is the ethics consultant for the Washington Regional Transplant Community’s Organ and Tissue Advisory Committee and project director of the Center for Ethical Solution’s SOS (Solving the Organ Shortage) project. She has written hundreds of articles for […]
Over the last year and several months, I have had the privilege of sharing my journey to authorship (among other things) with the followers of Readers Unbound. Through this opportunity, I have met some kind and accomplished people, and I feel blessed to be counted as part of such a talented group of bloggers. Thank […]
I’ve been reading a lot of new Southern fiction lately. Much of it has reminded me of overwrought Beasts of the Southern Wild emerging from our swamps and parading across the nation’s imagination. Now I love a good gothic grotesque character as much as the next person, but not every writer possesses the credentials of […]
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