The Landscape of Canadian Women's Crime Fiction

Tag: writing

  • Considering Alice Munro

    I’ve been spending a fair amount of time working on a Munro chapter, in my Canadian women’s crime fiction book. The revisions since the spring have been rather more extensive than I’d anticipated. I thought I was writing about how Munro depicts violent crime, or suspicion that crimes have been committed, in a range of…

  • Newspaper Coverage of Crime Fiction

    I’ve been grumpy for some time about how diminished the Globe & Mail‘s book coverage has been, lo these many years. I miss having a Books section, with a weekly column on crime fiction by Margaret Cannon. (Dream job!) That’s down to once a month or less, and it’s more of a quick round-up. But…

  • Another Form of CNF True Crime: Trauma and Abuse Memoirs

    This isn’t material I would teach as mandatory reading in a creative writing class, and probably also not in a literature course, no matter how well crafted. Teaching fiction that deals with childhood violence has offered me enough instances where undergraduate students, many of whom are still teenagers, react strongly and not always predictably to…