Author: Heidi Tiedemann Darroch
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Sunday Research (with a Chance of Teaching)
Last night I dreamt I went to an academic conference again. And unlike the gothic pile that is Manderley, haunted by the charismatic first wife, the titular Rebecca, there was no food and no sex. So pretty much a standard academic conference. But in my dream, I was in charge of food and drink, but…
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Margaret Atwood, Carol Shields, and Pat Lowther’s Life and Poetry
I’m working on an event to celebrate the brilliant poetry that Pat Lowther wrote before she was murdered when she was 40. This is a legacy that many others before me have contemplated, and it belongs most properly to her family members. Literary critics have limited emotional stakes in our work; we move on to…
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Alice Munro, Again: “Fiction”
But first, for something completely different. Readers may have noticed that there is a decided lack of ethnocultural/racial diversity among the authors I’m considering in this project. It’s a challenge in the field of crime fiction in Canada and it leads to, for instance, Pamela Bedore’s excellent book devoting a chapter to Ausma Zehanat Khan’s…
