{"id":8213,"date":"2004-01-09T08:09:32","date_gmt":"2004-01-09T08:09:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2004\/01\/interview_with_an_author_1.html"},"modified":"2004-01-09T08:09:32","modified_gmt":"2004-01-09T08:09:32","slug":"interview_with_an_author_1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2004\/01\/interview_with_an_author_1.html","title":{"rendered":"Interview with an author"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ann Rice, here<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Anne Rice, the author who gave new life to the undead, lives in a house full of saints.<\/p>\n

Her library holds six 15-inch to 2 \u00bd-foot-high statues, including a porcelain Virgin Mary and Child dressed in embroidered velvet and stiff, gold lace. Almost life-sized wooden figures of Mary and of St. Lucy, holding two eyeballs on a plate, stand serenely in a dining room decorated with antebellum murals of rural Italy. A smaller, arrow-pierced St. Sebastian writhes on a sideboard, contorted in holy agony.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ann Rice, here: Anne Rice, the author who gave new life to the undead, lives in a house full of saints. Her library holds six 15-inch to 2 \u00bd-foot-high statues, including a porcelain Virgin Mary and Child dressed in embroidered velvet and stiff, gold lace. 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