Lynn Coady

My guest on this episode is Lynn Coady. Lynn is the author of eight books, including the novel The Antagonist, which was shortlisted for the 2011 Giller Prize, and the short-story collection Hellgoing, which won the Giller Prize in 2013. Her most recent novel novel is Watching You Without Me, which was published by House of Anansi  2019 and Knopf US in 2020.

 

Publishers Weekly said that Watching You Without Me “stands out for its incisive, bleakly humorous look at gullibility and the complexities of guilt.”

 

Lynn is also an accomplished TV writer who has worked on shows like Diggstown and Orphan Black.

 

Lynn and I talk about how winning the Giller did, and didn’t, change her career and her perspective on her own writing, how writing for TV has become her main creative outlet, and is in many ways a healthier and more rewarding one, and why she isn’t 100% sure she will ever write another novel. We also talk very, very briefly about the scandal that her book Hellgoing played a very minor part in.

 

Lynn Coady: lynncoady.com

Music: "simple-hearted thing" by Alex Lukashevsky. Used with permission.

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