Jeanette Winterson's new novel The Stone Gods goes on sale today, and to celebrate you have your choice of two good Q&As.
The first, reprinted on her landmark website, discusses the book, its wacked out alternate histories (finding a new planet like Earth was 65 million years ago) and Jeanette's views on science and technology. Let's get one thing clear, even though this novel's love interest is a Robo-sapien and there's a fair amount of interplanetary travel, Jeanette says, "I hate science fiction." Read it all here.
The other interview, from Pop Matters, is Jeanette answering their standard twenty questions. Or not, as the case may be. But you kind of have to read it. She loathed There Will Be Blood, "emptiness masquerading as content." And guess what she loved? The children's movie Waterhorse, about the baby Loch Ness monster that grows up to be the big Loch Ness Monster. Not an April Fool's joke. So much more. Read it.
As for the novel's reviews, you couldn't expect them to be anything other than mixed. NYT Book Review loved it and Los Angeles Times had some qualms.
Well I'm a big Winterson fan from way back so predictably I loved it (It came out in the UK last September: see my blog). Or not so predictably: I wasn't so blind that I couldn't see that Gut Symmetries and The Powerbook weren't up to scratch.
Hated There Will Be Blood, eh? Aw, she's just saying that to be controversial!
Posted by: John Self | April 17, 2008 at 03:40 AM