The Landscape of Canadian Women's Crime Fiction

Tag: fiction

  • “I’m no prude but . . .”: Alice Munro’s Women and the Problems of Sex and Love

    In Munro’s Who Do You Think You Are? (I always feel like the question mark is wrong, as it’s an accusation and not a question), Rose recovers from the birth of her first child in a maternity ward, where one woman dominates the conversation about how her kitchen shelves are arranged. In a sea of…

  • “Don’t Exhaust Yourself” (from Sisters in Crime)

    The full quotation from this morning’s email from my favourite organization is “Challenge yourself; don’t exhaust yourself.” I’m doing a “January Jumpstart,” which is a kind of crime-writing marathon training of daily writing practice. My relationship with my writing gets tetchy if I don’t write five or six days a week, and it’s much like…

  • Ellen Godfrey and Rebecca Godfrey: Mothers, Daughters, and Crime Writing

    I was intending to write on Alice Munro’s “Vandals” (redux) this morning, but it’s the first teaching day of the term and so my mind has turned, inevitably, to final proofreading of course outlines. At the moment I have a creative writing course, Introduction to Creative Nonfiction, taught entirely online. Contemplating how to make this…