Interview with Lynn Coady: Feminism, Facebook, and Jian Ghomeshi

Lynn Coady is a writer, editor, playwright and journalist originally from Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. She has been described as “an acute, often hilarious observer of the absurdities and indignities of everyday life in small town Canada. Her work explores class conflict and the uneasy exchange between local and global perspectives and allegiances.”Her collection of stories, Hellgoing, won the 2013 Scotiabank Giller Prize. Her previous novel The Antagonist was widely praised and shortlisted for the 2011 Scotiabank Giller Prize. She has won numerous other awards, has published six books, and her work has been anthologized numerous times.carte blanche interviewed Coady in late March in the Richler Reading Room at Concordia University.[soundcloud url="https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/200839744" params="color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false" width="100%" height="166" iframe="true" /]