‘I’m just playing life’: an interview with Rob Drummond

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Acknowledgements

I am grateful to the anonymous reviewer for New Writing: The International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing, to the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, and to the University of Toronto at Scarborough.

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author.

Notes on contributor

Tom Ue was educated at Linacre College, University of Oxford, and at University College London, where he has worked from 2011 to 2016. His PhD examined Shakespeare’s influence on the writing of George Gissing. Ue has held visiting fellowships at Indiana University, Yale University, and the University of Toronto Scarborough, and he was the 2011 Cameron Hollyer Memorial Lecturer. He has published widely on Gissing, Conan Doyle, E. W. Hornung, and their contemporaries. Ue is the Frederick Banting Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of English at the University of Toronto Scarborough and an Honorary Research Fellow at University College London.

Notes

1 Breaking up their game of truth or dare, Autumn explains to her family that she is no longer playing that game, that she is ‘just playing life’ (Drummond 2016, 44).