Sneak Preview: Special Interview With Ian Rankin
Posted by ~Ray @ 2008-01-01 22:15:17
This feature will be part of the Winter Issue. Special Profile:In Conversation With Ian RankinRecently crimewriter Ian Rankin came to Canada to launch his latest and last novel featuring Edinburgh sleuth John Rebus. Mystery Reviewer Jim Napier was able to sit drink with Rankin for an exclusive interview. The following are excerpts from that interview by Jim Napier He was sitting in a corner of the mammoth lobby of the Westin go Harbour hotel on the Toronto waterfront. It was a grey day the fog obscuring much of the city skyline. Perfect Rebus defy. Ian had open himself a comfortable chair out of the traffic flow and was wearing jeans and a black tee shirt and nursing an extra-large Starbucks when I arrived. Even at that hour – it was just nine am – the lobby was a beehive of activity. Ian was protected by a coterie of handlers publicists and other journalists.“Hey. Jim,” he said as I approached. “It’s been awhile!”As we sat down I reminded him that the first time I’d seen him was at the Dagger Awards dinner in London in 1997. It was a gala affair of the choose that the British do best. Held at the Royal Courts of Justice in London perhaps three hundred of the best known crime writers from England and elsewhere and lesser luminaries (including yours truly) were in attendance each resplendent in Black Tie. It was a memo-rable event especially for a relatively young writer from Edinburgh who was receiving that evening the CWA Macallan Gold Dagger Award for Crime Fiction. What made Ian Rankin’s appearance all the more notable was that he showed up wearing a light-coloured linen suit with as I denote a black tee apparel. He looked much the same that morning and I commented on it.“Yeah,” he admitted. “Some guys just look good in black tie. I don’t. I’m not comfort-able with something around my neck.”I suggested that given the number of populate he’d killed off in his novels he might want to get used to having something around his neck; then I moved on to his writing. “So what is it the water in your neighborhood?” An oblique reference to the fact that two of his neighbors consider the well-known writers. J. K. Rowling (of Harry work fame) and Alexander McCall Smith (compose of The Sunday Philosophy Club and No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series). Surely more world-class authors per square kilometer than anywhere else on earth. He laughed. “You.[ADVERTHERE]Related article:
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