Terry Griggs on her novel Thought you were Dead
Terry Griggs is the author of a collection of short stories,\xa0Quickening,\xa0which was nominated for a Governor General\u2019s Award, and two novels, The Lusty Man, and Rogues\u2019 Wedding, shortlisted for the Rogers Writers\u2019 Trust Fiction Award. She has also written two books for children, Cat\u2019s Eye Corner, shortlisted for a Mr. Christie\u2019s Book Award and a Red Cedar Award, and most recently a sequel, The Silver Door. In 2003 she received the Marian Engel Award. Born on Manitoulin Island in Lake Huron, she currently lives in Stratford, Ontario.\xa0
\xa0 We met in Ottawa to talk about her latest \u2018farce noir\u2019 comic mystery novel, Thought you were Dead,\xa0 and, as a result about:\xa0cartoons, dead flies, Nabokov, Pnin\u2019s zany, self-mocking speech and ways, fending off intimacy, how comedy sharpens your judgment, wordplay, names and book titles, the male-female divide, ambiguity, contained chapters, Philip Larkin, naked women on book covers, and The Monkeys\u2019 Michael Nesmith\u2019s mother who invented liquid paper.
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