Southern Ontario Gothic

So what inspired this new book?

Well, it comes from me stumbling across an old phrase, I guess, or an old literary term called Southern Ontario Gothic.

I mean, I knew much about Southern Gothic, but I'd never heard anyone refer to Southern Ontario Gothic.

And I came across this old interview, Graham Gibson, who is the late husband of... margaret atwood and he'd been interviewing the the novelist timothy finley um about uh finley's first novel uh back in the late 60s called last of the crazy people and he referred to it as as reminding with southern gothic and finley said well it is a southern ontario gothic i went that's interesting and born and raised in london ontario which is a you know the the dead center of uh southwestern ontario i uh I thought that was interesting.

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