The Landscape of Canadian Women's Crime Fiction

Tag: mystery

  • Ghost Writers: Generative AI, Intellectual Property, and the Trope of the Hidden Author

    Grading concerns are converging with literary critical ones this weekend as I type less-than-patient messages to class members who wrote an analysis of an autobiographical sketch in which they misrepresent the topic, themes, events, and personages. Thanks, ChatGPT, for that hallucination. Very much appreciated. But intriguingly (one finds the silver lining), mystery fiction is also…

  • “Let Me Entertain You”: Mystery Novels About Acting

    Starting with Sondheim, this morning. Others may wake, stretch, and repeat soothing words of affirmation. I wake, shake off the frissons of anxiety about workplace dreams (only recently) and then decide on a Sondheim lyric to get me through the day. I’ve been steeped in Stephen Sondheim’s work since I was about 12 and found…

  • Ann Cleeves: An Appreciation

    I’m interrupting my set of four posts on academic mysteries to reflect on how brilliant Ann Cleeves’s Vera novels are, in particular. No shade to her other series, which are engaging and innovative as well. This past fall I was due to go to Knowlton, Quebec to see Louise Penny interview Cleeves, at a public…