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Dave King, the author of The Ha-Ha, was interviewed on Leonard Lopate's WNYC radio show. Where did King get that striking title? Let's find out...

"A ha-ha is [King writes], in simplest terms, a sunken fence used to contain livestock without interrupting a view; the goal is to create an optical illusion so that the land appears to roll on continuously, with no evidence of this concealed division. In the novel, there's an actual ha-ha, of course, and it plays a major role in the story, but initially all I wanted was to present the convent grounds as an urban, rather than rural, paradise: a little compromised, a little artificial."

If for some reason you don't catch King on the radio, he'll be reading several times in New York City this month, then hitting the road--see his website for the full details.