Author: Heidi Tiedemann Darroch
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Southern-Fried Crime Fiction: Margaret Maron’s Deborah Knott Novels
I won’t start eating biscuits and gravy or grits for breakfast every day, but this was a nice change on a very rainy late-March morning. One of my mother’s favourite songs to sing us was “Mama’s little baby loves shortnin’, shortnin’”, a ditty which I’ve only recently realized was deeply problematic. The version I learned…
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Can You Teach Creative Writing?
Times are tough at colleges across Canada. The Globe & Mail is reporting this morning on the hundreds of part-time and sessional instructors who are losing jobs they’ve held for years. Many will struggle to find alternate work, because the layoffs are so devastating and pervasive across the whole sector. I ran into a colleague…
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The Residence and The Last of Sheila
I was in need of escapism this weekend, as I worked on a tricky MLA proposal, finished reviewing an article, co-hosted a baby shower, and drafted my taxes. The Guardian alerted me to the pleasures of a new 8-part Netflix series, The Residence, and this was a perfect antidote to a too-busy weekend. The premise…
