• Essays

    Safe Places: On Writing Books for Teens about Teen Issues

    "These stories find continuing relevance by tackling issues and themes common to teens across generations."

    October 18, 2023  By Kellie M. Parker
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    100 years of Supernatural Searching

    Or, what the 1920s teach us about grief, fraud, and spiritualism.

    October 17, 2023  By Anbara Salam
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    From Broadway Musicals to Thrilling Mysteries: A Writing Life in Two Acts

    "I realized something that was huge but also completely grounding: Whatever format it takes, a story is a story."

    October 17, 2023  By Heather Hach
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    Lately I’ve Been Dressing For Revenge: What Taylor Swift Teaches Us About Genre Fiction

    Mandy McHugh on learning craft from a pop icon.

    October 17, 2023  By Mandy McHugh
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    A Visit to the Trans-Allegheny Asylum; or, On Hauntings and History

    "Explaining the night, carving down the sum total of the experience into words is damaging—the easier it is to talk about, the less extraordinary it becomes."

    October 16, 2023  By Nora Fussner
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    Lou Berney On The Immense Appeal of Ordinary Characters

    Advice for crafting believable, complex, and always surprising everyday people.

    October 13, 2023  By Lou Berney
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    The Brief, Bloody Story of Los Angeles’s Own “Bonnie & Clyde”

    In 1930, two young robbers captured the public's imagination.

    October 12, 2023  By James T. Bartlett
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    The Mystery of Memory and Identity

    Caitlin Starling on crafting a doppelgänger horror story around the idea of memory loss.

    October 12, 2023  By Caitlin Starling
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    10 Years Later, "Prisoners" Eerily Predicted Our Current Moment

    Revisiting Denis Villeneuve's bleak portrait of fear and fantasy

    October 11, 2023  By Zack Budryk
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    How Today's Top Authors Find the Right Balance for the "Literary Thriller"

    Jean Kwok asks authors how they approach reader and artistic demands.

    October 11, 2023  By Jean Kwok
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