The New York Times has a short interview with S. E. Hinton, author of The Outsiders. The occasion is the release of a new cut of Francis Ford Coppola’s film adaptation of the book.

Hinton has recently returned to writing and her new work seems a departure from her teen novels:

Last year . . . Ms. Hinton published her first adult novel, “Hawkes Harbor,” about an orphan raised by nuns who encounters pirates, gun runners and sharks while at sea, and is protected by a vampire.