Gloucester Writing Center Workshop: The Anatomy of Crime Fiction

Description

This course focuses on the art of mystery and suspense fiction. Each week we’ll read two short stories from noted crime writers and discuss what makes them classics in the genre. For our final class we’ll dissect a full-length novel. The works will come mostly from the 20 th century and will include British writers from the golden age and American writers of pulp fiction and noir.

Peter Swanson is the Sunday Times and New York Times best-selling author of 12 novels, including The Kind Worth Killing, winner of the New England Society Book Award, and Her Every Fear, an NPR book of the year. His books have been translated into over 30 languages, and his stories, poetry, and features have appeared in Asimov’s Science Fiction, The Atlantic Monthly, Measure, The Guardian, The Strand Magazine, and Yankee Magazine