Enrique Gili is a freelance writer covering Lifestyles of Health and Sustainability (Add vampires and you have the makings of Basic Instinct meets Dracula. Enter Ian Rankin one of the UK's leading crime novelists but instead of developing next Summer's blockbuster he's slagging on women working in the genre.
Britain's bestselling crime writer found himself condemned as "offensive" by a leading female rival yesterday after suggesting that women authors, and gay ones in particular, are more bloodthirsty than men. The acclaimed writer of the Inspector Rebus novels said in an interview last year: "The people writing the most graphic novels today are women. They are mostly lesbians as well, which I find interesting." ( Times Online)
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This seems to be one of those literary spats which has been blown out all of proportion by the broadsheets trying to find something interesting to fill their pages during the silly season. Remember how Terry Pratchett's off-the-cuff remark about tossing a piece of costume jewelry into a volcano turned into a "Top Author Slams Tolkien" headline a couple of years ago?
More information on the vampire lesbians here:
http://books.guardian.co.uk/departments/crime/story/0,,2150615,00.html
Incidentally, it appears that McDermid isn't so much "a rival" of Rankin as a good personal friend.
Posted by: csrster | August 23, 2007 09:23 AM
I'm going to have to start reading more lesbian novels.
Posted by: tourettist | August 23, 2007 02:54 PM