Crime fictionInterviewSue Grafton: 'My childhood ended when I was five'John CraceThe novelist talks about growing up with alcoholic parents, and how it shaped her writing and led to her fictional alter ego, Kinsey Millhone. And, below, we publish an extract from her latest book, Kinsey and MeMost novelists prefer to maintain a distance between themselves and their characters; it preserves a veneer of sanity. If not always one of mystery. Sue Grafton, author of the best-selling alphabetical detective series that began with A is for Alibi in 1982 and is now up to V is for Vengeance, has seldom made any effort to separate herself from her fictional creation, PI Kinsey Millhone. Read More...
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Food'Nyotaimori' is the Japanese tradition of eating sushi off a perfectly still, naked woman's body. Just the sort of thing to enrage a diehard feministAs I booked a ticket for the most expensive meal I have ever eaten, it did occur to me that I don't like sushi. But this was not the only problem for someone who has been a lifelong feminist campaigner against the sexual exploitation of women: I was about to eat raw fish off a naked woman's body. Read More...