TY - BOOK AU - Percy,Benjamin TI - Thrill me: essays on fiction SN - 9781555977597 PY - 2016///] CY - Minneapolis, Minnesota PB - Graywolf Press KW - Fiction KW - Authorship KW - Technique KW - Creative writing KW - History and criticism KW - Essays KW - lcgft N1 - "In fifteen essays that challenge the notion that literary and genre fiction are mutually exclusive, the author turns to Cormac McCarthy, Ursula K. Le Guin, Stephen King, and others to discover how contemporary writers engage plot, character, dialogue, and suspense"--Page [4] of cover; Thrill me --; Urgency --; Set pieces: staging the iconic scene --; There will be blood: writing violence --; Making the extraordinary ordinary --; Designing suspense --; Don't look back --; Modulation: the art of reversal --; Sounds like writing --; Move mountains: activating setting --; Feckless pondering --; Get a job --; Consider the orange: meaningful repetition --; Home improvement: revision as renovation --; Go the distance ER -