Old drafts of DCC [Dead Celebrities Club] : some in Win Harper's voice
- 2017-010/016(01)
- File
- 2015
Part of Susan Swan fonds
File consists of various annotated drafts of The Dead Celebrities Club.
Old drafts of DCC [Dead Celebrities Club] : some in Win Harper's voice
Part of Susan Swan fonds
File consists of various annotated drafts of The Dead Celebrities Club.
Old drafts of the DCC [Dead Celebrities Club]
Part of Susan Swan fonds
File consists of annotated drafts of The Dead Celebrities Club
Fall versions of DCC [Dead Celebrities Club] : 2013
Part of Susan Swan fonds
File consists of October 2013 annotated draft partial manuscripts.
"The Dead Celebrities Club" : Walrus submission : March 18, 2013
Part of Susan Swan fonds
File consists of two draft annotated excerpts from The Dead Celebrities Club, prepared for submission to The Walrus magazine.
A third person take on "The Dead Celebrities Club" : Feb. 27, 2013
Part of Susan Swan fonds
File consists of annotated partial drafts of The Dead Celebrities Club.
"The Dead Celebrities Club" : draft partial manuscripts
Part of Susan Swan fonds
"The Dead Celebrities Club" : draft partial manuscripts : November 1, 2011
Part of Susan Swan fonds
Old drafts : DCC [Dead Celebrities Club]
Part of Susan Swan fonds
File includes a project description and partial drafts of The Dead Celebrities Club.
Early drafts of "The Dead Celebrities Club"
Part of Susan Swan fonds
File consists of annotated partial drafts of The Dead Celebrities Club.
Old drafts of "The Dead Celebrities Club"
Part of Susan Swan fonds
Background on celebrities and celebrity dead pools
Part of Susan Swan fonds
"Death at the Hotel Chelsea" : draft manuscripts
Part of Susan Swan fonds
"Death at the Hotel Chelsea" : draft manuscripts
Part of Susan Swan fonds
File also includes e-mail exchanged with one of Swan's students, Emiko Hsuen, pertaining to Swan's questions about Japanese culture for this story, e-mail regarding research about the Chelsea Hotel, a copy of a paper entitled "Thomas Wolfe's German girlfriend: some further thoughts on Thea Voelcker" by Lawrence D. Stokes, and Thomas Wolfe Society publications entitled "Thomas Wolfe's friendship with Henry Volkening: the documents" and "The proceedings and membership list of the Thomas Wolfe Society: the twenty-seventh annual meeting, Portland, Maine, May 27-29, 2005".
"Death at the Hotel Chelsea" : draft manuscripts
Part of Susan Swan fonds
File consists of annotated drafts of this story by Swan from 2005 to 2006. Later drafts are entitled "A Haunting at the Hotel Chelsea".
"Death at the Hotel Chelsea" : draft manuscripts
Part of Susan Swan fonds
File consists of annotated drafts of this story by Swan from 2005 to 2006. Later drafts are entitled "A Haunting at the Hotel Chelsea".
"Death at the Hotel Chelsea" : draft manuscripts
Part of Susan Swan fonds
File consists of annotated drafts of this story by Swan from 2005 to 2006. Later drafts are entitled "A Haunting at the Hotel Chelsea".
Story about the Thomas Wolfe suite at the Chelsea Hotel : drafts
Part of Susan Swan fonds
File consists of notes, a pitch and annotated drafts by Swan about her stay in the Thomas Wolfe suite at the Chelsea Hotel. Also included in the file is a clipping of an article by Swan published in the National Post about Thomas Wolfe and her father (18 June 2005).
Federal funding for the arts : e-mail and statistics
Part of Susan Swan fonds
File consists of a list of cuts by the Canadian federal government since 1 Apr. 2008 prepared by the Canadian Conference of the Arts, e-mail sent by Swan and others regarding a town hall about cuts to cultural and heritage granting programs, and an essay by Swan entitled "Tips for the emerging writer Stephen Harper".
Talk by Swan to Chinese writers at University of Waterloo, 2014
Part of Susan Swan fonds
File pertains to Swan's presentation at "A Sino-Canada literary forum: literature and our environment" organized by the Confucius Institute at the University of Waterloo (25 Oct. 2014). File includes a program and the text of Swan's talk on literature and the political environment.
Writers' Union 2007 : fight vs. Harper
Part of Susan Swan fonds
File consists of The Writers' Union of Canada information sheets/promotional materials regarding Prime Minister Stephen Harper's support of the arts in Canada, as well as a creative writing piece about Harper by one of Swan's students and an agenda and related e-mail pertaining to a writers' protest, "The awakening", to be held in Ottawa at the Parliament buildings. Also included in the file is a document entitled "Thoughts towards a writer's ten digital commandments" and an e-mail from Susan Kersten regarding digital publishing.
Part of Susan Swan fonds
File pertains to speaking engagements by Swan pertaining to the promotion of The Western Light in 2012 and 2013, as well as her talk at a tribute for Constance Rooke and her participation at a Mar. 2015 Trampoline Hall event. Included in the file are her speaking notes and lectures, e-mail, excerpts from the book, and research materials.
E-mail and paper : Russell Morton Brown
Part of Susan Swan fonds
File consists of a paper by Russell Morton Brown entitled "Robert Kroetsch, Marshall McLuhan, and Canada's prairie postmodernism: the Aberhart effect" and an accompanying e-mail sent to Patrick Crean.
Part of Susan Swan fonds
File consists of Swan's e-mail, including e-mail pertaining to efforts to sell The Hockey Killer, letters, greeting cards and drafts of her story "Death at the Hotel Chelsea". Also included in the file is e-mail exchanged between Swan and Catherine Gildiner in 2004-2005, student feedback forms about Swan's creative writing teaching at Humber College, and a photograph of Swan taken in Toronto (Oct. 2009).
Part of Susan Swan fonds
File consists of e-mail, greeting cards and letters pertaining to Swan's personal life, her writing career, her creative writing teaching and her involvement with the Writers' Union of Canada.
Part of Susan Swan fonds
File consists of greeting cards sent to Swan, including cards celebrating her 70th birthday in 2015 and her engagement and marriage to Patrick Crean in 2016.
Visit to Sing Sing and interviews with Charlie Shrem, a jailed Bitcoin operator : 2015
Part of Susan Swan fonds
File pertains to Swan's research for her book, The Dead Celebrities Club, including an e-mail interviews/correspondence with Charlie Shrem while he was in prison and her visit to Sing Sing prison in New York State to attend a Rehabilitations Through the Arts (RTA) prisoner performance of The Wizard of Oz. Records in this file are e-mail, transcripts, a program, articles by Shrem, and news articles about the RTA program.
E-mail, proposals about "Sexual Gothic" or "The Dead Celebrities Club"
Part of Susan Swan fonds
File consists of e-mail sent and received by Swan pertaining to research for her book, The Dead Celebrities Club, performances of her theatre project, "Heroines of the Sexual Gothic", her participation in writers' festivals, and other topics relating to her literary career.
Part of Susan Swan fonds
File consists of e-mail exchanged between Swan and Natalee Caple, as well as related e-mail from Margaret Atwood, Brad Cran, Judy Rebick and Joseph Boyden, and a copy of a letter from Brian Brett to the president of the University of British Columbia.
Part of Susan Swan fonds
E-mail about Globe and Mail essay
Part of Susan Swan fonds
File consists of e-mail exchanged between Swan, Sheila Heti, Lisan Jutras and Jared Bland pertaining to Swan's essay for the Globe and Mail on the subject of the "new unromantic romantics" in literature.
Part of Susan Swan fonds
File consists of e-mail exchanged between Swan and Marc Cote, Fred Hacker and Barbara Gowdy, as well as greeting cards sent to Swan on the occasions of her birthday, Christmas and marriage to Patrick Crean.
E-mail relating to "The Western Light"
Part of Susan Swan fonds
File consists of e-mail exchanged between Swan, her literary agent, publisher and others pertaining to the editing, publication and promotion of The Western Light. Also included are research materials pertaining to fact-checking and promoting the novel.
Notes on Canadian humour/irony, Linda Hutcheon
Part of Susan Swan fonds
Notes on Canadian humour/irony, Linda Hutcheon
Part of Susan Swan fonds
Part of Susan Swan fonds
Part of Susan Swan fonds
Part of Susan Swan fonds
Part of Susan Swan fonds
Stratford lecture : burden of adjustment
Part of Susan Swan fonds
Part of Susan Swan fonds
File pertains to the estate of Swan's father, Dalton Churchill Swan.
Part of Susan Swan fonds
Part of Susan Swan fonds
Part of Susan Swan fonds
Part of Susan Swan fonds
"What Casanova Told Me" : plot synopsis, statement and email
Part of Susan Swan fonds
"What Casanova Told Me" : plot synopsis, statement and email
Part of Susan Swan fonds
"What Casanova Told Me" : pitch pages
Part of Susan Swan fonds
"What Casanova Told Me" : pitch pages
Part of Susan Swan fonds
"Stupid Boys are Good to Relax With" : TV pilot script and pitch pages
Part of Susan Swan fonds
"Stupid Boys are Good to Relax With" : TV pilot script and pitch pages
Part of Susan Swan fonds
Part of Susan Swan fonds
File pertains to a diary project by Swan, Margaret Dragu and Marcella Lustig, and Swan's efforts to get a re-worked version of it published under the title, "It's not all porn". Included is correspondence exchanged between Swan, Dragu and Lustig, as well as copies of letters written by Swan to magazines regarding publication.
Part of Susan Swan fonds
File pertains to a diary project by Swan, Margaret Dragu and Marcella Lustig, and Swan's efforts to get a re-worked version of it published under the title, "It's not all porn". Included is correspondence exchanged between Swan, Dragu and Lustig, as well as copies of letters written by Swan to magazines regarding publication.
"Room 829: a ghost story at the Hotel Chelsea" : manuscripts
Part of Susan Swan fonds
Part of Susan Swan fonds
Part of Susan Swan fonds
"Paulie Lives!" : annotated manuscripts
Part of Susan Swan fonds
File includes resource material pertaining to Havergal College.
Part of Susan Swan fonds
Part of Susan Swan fonds
Part of Susan Swan fonds
Part of Susan Swan fonds
Part of Susan Swan fonds
Old versions of "Somewhere" : manuscripts
Part of Susan Swan fonds
Part of Susan Swan fonds
"Nobody calls them servants any more" and "The interim man" : manuscripts
Part of Susan Swan fonds
Part of Susan Swan fonds
Part of Susan Swan fonds
Part of Susan Swan fonds
Love triangle short story : typescript
Part of Susan Swan fonds
File includes a photograph of Susan Swan (?).
Joint story : chapter three : "The man who loved books"
Part of Susan Swan fonds
File consists of draft manuscripts and correspondence pertaining to Swan's part of a jointly written story for the Globe and Mail. The other participating writers were Catherine Bush and Paul Quarrington.
Part of Susan Swan fonds
"The Hockey Killer" : annotated manuscripts
Part of Susan Swan fonds
Part of Susan Swan fonds
Part of Susan Swan fonds
Feminist goddess sites in Israel
Part of Susan Swan fonds
Part of Susan Swan fonds
Part of Susan Swan fonds
Contents of the disc include an essay written by Swan about her novel The Wives of Bath, a memorandum from York University regarding a reduction in Swan's teaching load for 2003-2004, and a table of corrections pertaining to one of Swan's pieces of writing. Not all files on this disc are retrievable. Paper copies of accessible documents are also in the file.
Early notes & writing about novel & actual early pages of novel
Part of Susan Swan fonds
File includes journal notes from Swan's 1995 trip to Crete on a "goddess tour".
Drafts of short story "Paulie Lives" (published in Exile)
Part of Susan Swan fonds
Part of Susan Swan fonds
File consists of diary entries and letters written by and exchanged between Swan, Margaret Dragu and Marcella Lustig.
Part of Susan Swan fonds
File pertains to a diary project by Swan, Margaret Dragu and Marcella Lustig, and Swan's efforts to get a re-worked version of it published under the title, "It's not all porn". Included in the file are rejection letters from Rona Maynard of Chatelaine magazine and Robert Fulford of Saturday Night magazine.
"Black Ships" : annotated manuscripts
Part of Susan Swan fonds
File includes a letter from the Ontario Arts Council informing Swan of her grant for this project, which was renamed The Western Light.
Part of Susan Swan fonds
Articles that didn't get published
Part of Susan Swan fonds
AIS [androgen insensitivity syndrome] emails
Part of Susan Swan fonds
The writer's conscience (Robarts lecture)
Part of Susan Swan fonds
TV Ontario interview : Susan Swan and Diana Souhami : pre-interview questions
Part of Susan Swan fonds
Robarts Chair 1999/2000 : newspaper clippings and lecture notes
Part of Susan Swan fonds
Notes on essay for [Barbara] Goddard : media as literature
Part of Susan Swan fonds
My speech in Amsterdam : "The writer's conscience and the rhetoric of Canadian writing"
Part of Susan Swan fonds
Millennial Wisdom Symposium : grant application, newspaper clippings and research materials
Part of Susan Swan fonds
File pertains to a six-part symposium organized by Swan titled "Making up the past: the archaeology of fiction".
Writers' Coalition Program benefits plan : correspondence and resource materials
Part of Susan Swan fonds
Writers' Union of Canada correspondence and resource materials
Part of Susan Swan fonds
File pertains to Swan's year as chair of the Union (2007-2008).
Writers' Union of Canada correspondence and resource materials
Part of Susan Swan fonds
File pertains to Swan's year as chair of the Union (2007-2008).
Part of Susan Swan fonds
File consists of personal and professional correspondence, both handwritten and e-mail, sent and received by Swan. Correspondents include Nino Ricci, Margaret Atwood, Samantha Haywood, Patrick Crean, Sheila Heti and many others. Included is a publicity photograph of writer Barbara Gowdy.
Part of Susan Swan fonds
File consists of personal and professional correspondence, both handwritten and e-mail, sent and received by Swan. Correspondents include Nino Ricci, Margaret Atwood, Samantha Haywood, Patrick Crean, Sheila Heti and many others.
Part of Susan Swan fonds
File includes correspondence from Dragu to Swan and newspaper clippings, a notice and poster for a 1979 show titled "33 1/3 Double Live", and a zine by Dragu titled "A new way of walking".
Correspondence from Sheila Kay
Part of Susan Swan fonds
File pertains to the promotional tour for Swan's novel What Casanova Told Me.
Part of Susan Swan fonds
Child care & divorce documents
Part of Susan Swan fonds
Part of Susan Swan fonds