Thursday, March 04, 2010

Ann Rice is interviewed by Caroline Sayer
The Life of Jesus and Vampires

Carolyn Sayer interviews Ann Rice via webcam. Ann talks about her return to writing about religion rather than her vampire books which she is most known for in her writing career.
When talking about her vampires and the Supernatural they act as a metaphor rather than role models in her books. She, herself does not believe in vampires as actual beings but rather lost souls.
Carolyn asked why so many of her novels feature gay characters and she explained the focus was on love between the characters rather than their sexuality.
She never understood the prejudice concerning trans-gender people and her own son an author, Christopher Rice is gay.
She speaks about her Vampire Chronicles and the character that began the series, Lestat and sees the last book as a redemptive framework where Lestat he struggles internally with his own relationship to God and religion.