Author: Heidi Tiedemann Darroch
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Marsha Mildon’s Cal Meredith Books
A puzzle: during the 1990s, two terrific authors of lesbian private investigator series emerged from the bucolic but small city of Victoria, British Columbia. Both had American publishers, and I’ve described previously how Lauren Wright Douglas was part of the sprawling genre fiction output of Naiad Press, based in Florida. Marsha Mildon‘s two books in…
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Pat Lowther and Sylvia Plath: Back to the Archives
Cover image of Faber’s forthcoming edition of The Poems of Sylvia Plath, edited by Amanda Golden and Karen V. Kukil. Because I write about crime fiction most of the time, I’m acutely conscious when I’m writing about real-life tragedies linked to literary figures that this is a very different matter. There is real suffering and…
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Clearing Space for Kindness
“Kindness” is not a concept that I always associate with higher education, or with education in general. Learning is difficult, but that inherent challenge has been compounded by the human and thus imperfect systems that we’ve built: Grading. Ranking. Prize Days and Spelling Bees. Attendance requirements that punish the chronically ill. The endless, disheartening casualization…
