Tag: books
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The Sylvia Hotel and Vancouver Writers
“The Americans have a new war that’s how we know the generations have changed.” – George Fetherling, “First Signs of Wartime Spring,” The Sylvia Hotel Poems The Sylvia Hotel is a venerable institution, and this is my first visit. I was curious about whether the Sylvia had made it into any crime fiction. My research…
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Marsha Mildon’s Cal Meredith Books
A puzzle: during the 1990s, two terrific authors of lesbian private investigator series emerged from the bucolic but small city of Victoria, British Columbia. Both had American publishers, and I’ve described previously how Lauren Wright Douglas was part of the sprawling genre fiction output of Naiad Press, based in Florida. Marsha Mildon‘s two books in…
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Pat Lowther and Sylvia Plath: Back to the Archives
Cover image of Faber’s forthcoming edition of The Poems of Sylvia Plath, edited by Amanda Golden and Karen V. Kukil. Because I write about crime fiction most of the time, I’m acutely conscious when I’m writing about real-life tragedies linked to literary figures that this is a very different matter. There is real suffering and…
The Landscape of Canadian Women's Crime Fiction 