Author: Heidi Tiedemann Darroch
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Teaching and Reading Angry Men
Next week, I’ve offered my Creative Nonfiction students three reading options, including a brilliant essay on experiencing an eclipse by nature/science writer Annie Dillard. It’s my preferred piece, of the week’s choices. One of the essays, David Foster Wallace’s “Consider the Lobster,” I really wrestled with including. I’m thinking out loud, here, about teaching the…
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Vladimir: Academic Privilege and Peril
Caption: Rachel Weisz as M in Vladimir (Netflxi) I’m enjoying a not-great adaptation of a not-bad novel. Watching gauzily-filmed melodramas set on Ivy-ish campuses where the sunlight is always dappled and the dialogue is periodically snappy is a tonic, in these times. An irony! The series was apparently filmed in Toronto, during the summer months.…
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Con Artists, Scam Artists, Escape Artists: My Zenias and Atwood’s The Robber Bride
“You might become a detective. You might become a con artist yourself. Or, a blend of the two: you might become a novelist.” Margaret Atwood on writing “The history of the world, my sweet Oh, Mr. Todd, ooh, Mr. Todd What does it tell? Is who gets eaten, and who gets to eat” Stephen Sondheim’s…
