, “a Senegalese writer in her 60s whose every book had caused such scandal that, for some, she’d come to be viewed as an evil Pythia, a ghoul or an outright succubus”; she gives Faye a copy...
As recently as the aughts, when Rick Riordan’s Percy Jackson series exploded onto the middle-grade market, the Gorgon was still coming in for wicked witch/evil succubus treatment. (In the 2010...