Last week’s New York Times magazine has a fun little interview with Charlaine Harris, author of the cool Sookie Stackhouse novels that became the basis of HBO’s True Blood. Vampires are hugely popular nowadays, she says, because “People are really interested in the concept of eternal youth in this plastic-surgery culture. Vampires never die.” Other curious tidbits: She’s never met Stephenie Meyer of the rival Twilight series, and she’s a warden in the Episcopal Church. Read the rest of this interview with the vampire (author).