http://www.wired.com/underwire/2012/...ide-anne-rice/
This week's Geeks Guide to the Galaxy podcast is an interview with Anne Rice. Her new book is a return to supernatural/monster fiction after a decade of Christian fiction (she's also left the Catholic church and spoken out against organized religion in recent years). I gobbled up nearly all of her books as a teen, but haven't read anything from this millennium.
She and the interviewer also agree that her werewolf is a superhero of sorts, rather than a tortured or conflicted monster like many of her vampires.