Master Interviewer dead at 77.
Abrasive, confrontational, fearless… un-PC even before there was such a concept as “PC”… and yes, sometimes an aggravating righteous b***h. But then again, you knew that her interviews would deliver.
I highly recommend this profile published in the New Yorker only a few months ago. She was full of fire and rabble rousing right up to the end.
On the geekier side, Babylon 5 fans will appreciate this passage from her interview with Ray Bradbury in If the Sun Dies, which was later adapted into a script for the show. She could really draw what she wanted out of her subject.
And her own (non-interview) writings contain stuff that will probably equally tick off the left and the right, which is no mean trick…