Text Ticker: Anne Rice’s Jesus
The new issue of then+1 book review, aptly-named N1BR, just came out, and it includes a lovely essay on Anne Rice:
Four years ago after writing twenty-one books about vampires, witches, mummies, psychic humans, and pleasure slaves (there were five books of erotica, under pseudonyms), she progressed one step further on the ladder of heroes. She announced that she was abandoning her vampires. From now on, all her books would be for and about quot;the ultimate outsider, the ultimate immortal of allquot;: Jesus Christ.
Rice is also quoted as calling H.P. Lovecraft “a hack.” [go!]
