IF in 20 years’ time children are asking their parents “Mum, what was a podcast?” then crime writer Denise Mina has a problem – at least she does if she’s concerned enough about her literary legacy to regret filling her books with the technologies and concerns of the moment.
Turns out she isn’t concerned and has no regrets, as she makes abundantly clear when we meet in a café in Glasgow’s West End ahead of the publication of her new novel, Conviction. Let others “write for the ages” (her phrase). She’s quite happy doing what she does, writing for the here and the now.
“I think it’s really freeing as a woman writer that you probably will not be particularly remembered or lauded and if you are it’ll be by the feminist department,” she says, settling into a seat by the window and beaming at me from under her coolly angular haircut. “And as a crime writer you’re not writing for the ages either because it’s a low art form … But I like low…
