Reader: Vampires are sucking the life out of literature

Patricia Calhoun August 29, 2012 6:00AM

Edward Cullen and his sparkly friends have made vampires very popular today. But for a modern take on vampires with real bite, Cory Casciato suggests you check out Jeanne Stein's Anna Strong vampire series.

If you want to read about vampires at all, that is.

Says Rusty:

One thing about literature these days I never could stomach, all the damn vampires.

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Patricia Calhoun co-founded Westword in 1977; she’s been the editor ever since. She’s a regular on the weekly CPT12 roundtable Colorado Inside Out, played a real journalist in John Sayles’s Silver City, once interviewed President Bill Clinton while wearing flip-flops, and has been honored with numerous national awards for her columns and feature-writing.

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