On faking your own death: the handbook is out

“I’m not an inherently morbid person,” she says, “but I am very drawn to the darkly comic and absurd, and I don’t think there is anything more at the crossroads of comic absurdity than faking your own death.” Greenwood, who was finishing up an MFA at Columbia (where she now teaches), sensed that death-faking would be a good topic for a book, but her professors were less certain: what was her story, what was her through-line?