To Hell With Love

I had an unusual traffic spike last Friday, and discovered that a lot of people had stumbled upon one of my archived interviews because it's Google's top-ranked item for searching "Emma Forrest." OK, I thought, that's interesting, but why is everybody Googling Emma Forrest all of a sudden? Turns out somebody at the Associated Press spoke to her about the general uselessness of men in happily coincidental timing with the publication of her new novel, Cherries in the Snow.

(One quibble; the reporter notes that Forrest got her start in celebrity journalism when she was 13 and did an interview with Ian McKellen, "who starred in such films as Richard III, X-Men and the Lord of the Rings trilogy," for her school magazine. Said interview, however, took place back in 1990, when none of those films were even in development, and McKellen was either talking primarily about his stagecraft, his role as Iago in a TV-movie Othello, or maybe his performance in Scandal.)