Thanks to Mike Ingram and Tom McAllister for hosting me on this week’s episode of Book Fight! You can find…
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Category Archives: George Mason University
The Writer’s Center Magazine—Times Two!
The Winter/Spring issue of The Writer’s Center Magazine is out—and what fun to have been interviewed for two of the…
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Reading Journal: The Talented Mr. Ripley
Much of my reading is done as a result of a course I’m teaching or a talk I’m giving—but the…
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The First Two Pages: “The Artisan-Cheese Incident” by Michael Hock
In April 2015, B.K. Stevens debuted the blog series “The First Two Pages,” hosting craft essays by short story writers…
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Reading Journal: A Murder Is Announced
This week, my “Women of Mystery” class at Mason is meeting Miss Marple for the first time—in a way, just…
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Reading Journal: Passion Play
As I’ve mentioned something like a thousand times, I’m writing a boarding school mystery—or eternally trying to. (The novel as…
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Reading Journal: Done? And Next?
I’ll admit that I generally prefer reading a physical copy of a book or magazine or newspaper rather than reading…
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Reading Journal: Women of Mystery
As the students in my Reviewing course are gaining traction on their own weekly journals, I’m realizing that several of…
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Reading Journal—for Mason Reviewing Course
This fall’s classes at George Mason University include a course in “Reviewing”—one which I originally taught in Spring 2017, and…
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Death on the Nile at OLLI
I had a great time talking about Agatha Christie’s novel Death on the Nile (and her short story “Death on…
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