Author: Heidi Tiedemann Darroch
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“We Can’t Ask Alice”: Our Munro Roundtable at MLA 2026 in Toronto
Huge thanks to Sarah Caskey, Nadine Fladd, and Julie Rivkin for their wonderfully thoughtful and engaging presentations. This was a tricky session for me, and I appreciated the guidance of Munro scholars–notably Maggie Redekop and Naomi Morgenstern, during the planning stage–as well as Lorraine York, whose work on Atwood and celebrity helped shape Nadine Fladd’s…
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Ausma Zehanat Khan, the Iran Protests, and the MLA Convention
Flying across the country tends to wear me out, so I splurged at the airport and lined up for a car service rather than take the fast, convenient, and reasonably priced Union Pearson express. I just couldn’t with crowds anymore. The driver, after chitchat about weather and tourist sites, asked about my weekend conference: he’d…
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Freida McFadden’s The Housemaid
Am very late to the party on The Housemaid. I started this novel three times before I finally pushed through to the end, so my experience is clearly a bit different than the legions of fans who rave about it online. On GoodReads there are more than three million ratings and 274,000 some reviews. So…
