Author: Heidi Tiedemann Darroch
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Eva Jurczyk: Have You Made Your Acquaintance with Her Novels?
Here’s a new-ish author whom I hadn’t realized is Canadian. Her first two books were The Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, which I kept intending to read based on the title alone, and That Night in the Library, which I liked but didn’t love. But wow, her third book! I’m reading an ARC–requisite…
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The Murderous Possibilities of Bathtubs, Showers, and Spas
Bathtubs are disappearing. Not in a needs-to-be-investigated sort of way: they’re being routinely removed as hotels renovate (to enable faster and easier cleaning between guests), or not included in the first place in new condo and sometimes even single-family home design. The Death of the Bathtub is probably not a great murder mystery title. But…
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In Praise of Editors
I’ve just completed comments/corrections in response to the best copyediting of my academic work that I’ve ever experienced (for a forthcoming MLA volume on teaching Margaret Atwood). It was a marked contrast to some past mediocre experiences, and one real disaster, when an entire book manuscript, including my chapter, was outsourced to a non-English-speaking country…
