lesson 7: genre articles
Choose from the following articles to read, according to the directions atop each section. (You will have to locate the articles on your own using library databases.) For each section, write three (3) facts you did not know about the genre before reading the article OR just three interesting facts about the genre you can share at a cocktail party.
Section I (Choose 1)
Section II (Choose 2)
Section III (Choose 3 - All articles below are from the Novelist database
Section I (Choose 1)
- "Mass Appeal: Spotlight Graphic Novels" by Ingrid Bohnenkamp, Library Journal, June 1, 2019
- “Love for All" by Eve Stano, Library Journal, October 2019
- "Past Is Prologue: Science Fiction and Ways of Working" by Gillian Speace, Reference and Users Services Quarterly, December 1, 2019
- "A Delicate Balance: Spotlight Christian Fiction" by Julia M. Refner, Library Journal, November 15, 2017
- "Cracking open the Cold War Spy Novel" by Anton Fedyashin, Phi Kappa Phi Forum, Spring 2019
- "Not Your Usual Suspects" by Kristi Chadwick, Library Journal, April 15, 2015
Section II (Choose 2)
- "Expanding the SF/Fantasy Universe" by Megan Rosol, Library Journal, May 1, 2017
- "Making Horror Less Scary" by Becky Spratford, Library Journal, May 1, 2017
- "Living on the Edge with Thrillers" by Jeff Ayers, Library Journal, May 1, 2017
- "Taking the Mystery out of Mystery" by Stacy Alesi, Library Journal, May 1, 2017
- "Leading Adults to YA Fiction" by Molly Wetta, Library Journal, May 1, 2017
- "Core Collection: Essential Cozies in Print and on Audio" by Joyce Saricks, Booklist, May 1, 2015
- "Fiction's Gentle Side" by Joyce Saricks, Booklist, November 1, 2015
Section III (Choose 3 - All articles below are from the Novelist database
- "Diverse Writing: Fantasy" by Barry Trott, November 2019
- "Diverse Reading: Historical Fiction" by Bethany Latham, February 2019
- "Diverse Reading: Horror" by Barry Trott, December 2019
- "Diverse Reading: Mysteries and Thrillers" by Sarah S. Davis, January 2019
- "Diverse Reading: Romance" by Nanci Millone Hill, January 2019
- "Diverse Reading: Science Fiction" by Audrey Barbakoff, June 2018
- "A License to Thrill: Spy Fiction Classics" by David Wright, July 2019
- "Literary Fantasy" by Jessica Zellers, December 2019
- "Women's Romantic Fiction" by Erin Holt, October 2019
- "Christian Fiction Today" by Shannon Salter, October 2019
- "Psychological Horror" by Jessica Zellers, September 2019
- "Wanted, Dead or Alive or Undead: the Weird Wild West" by Tara Bannon Williamson, July 2019
- "The Blue Line: Police Procedurals around the World" by Barry Trott, February 2019
- "Subgenre Special: Historical Thrillers" by Bethany Latham, November 2018 - (Any of the 'Subgenre Special' articles from 2018-19 can be substituted - others include Paranormal Romance, Gothic Romance, Romantic Comedies, Christian Thrillers, Historical Mystiers, Urban Fantasy, and Historical Romances)