From The Guardian, in which Brady says that the Times, not she, claims her thrillers are less highbrow than her literary fiction.
Tuesday, January 29, 2008
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Thanks for this update. If THIS newspaper quote is accurate...
"The voice is exactly the same as in Theory of War," she counters crossly. "I haven't dumbed down. I never said it. That's the pure invention of the Times. They have decided that this effete literary woman has become so stupid that she can no longer write boring literary fiction and writes poorly selling thrillers instead. My mental faculties haven't deteriorated. And anyway, what an insult it would be to thriller writers to suggest that you need to be stupid to write them. It seems to me so irritating that you would denigrate a remarkable genre where much of the best writing is done. I'm a great admirer of writers like John Grisham and Scott Turow."
If it's so, it means the outrage is not her easy dismissal of thrillers, but once again (sigh), modern media's easy dismissal of accuracy for a juicier angle.
You can't take back the laugh I got from the Times quote, but I may withdraw any related impressions of Brady or her work.
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