Sara Paretsky's Blog, page 25
September 5, 2009
And the Winner Is…
Where was V I Warshawski while I was working on other projects? We posed the question, and people with way more imagination than I have came up with ideas that were both clever and appropriately cynical. Although this is Chicago, the fix was not in. No money or goods or even services changed hands in determining a winner. Instead, the judging was completely arbitrary.
The winner gets an advance copy of Hardball and a V I t-shirt. There are also two runners-up, who each get a V I...
August 29, 2009
Scheduling Conflicts
I have a problem: I'm supposed to start my tour for Hardball on September 22, but that's also the season premiere for NCIS. I confess that I'm a fan. Some of my friends say the dialogue is wooden and the action predictable, others that the show is hard on women, but I still love it. Because we left Ziva in a Somali torture cell, I'm not sure I'm strong enough to go to Old Orchard to read from Hardball
while her fate is in the balance.
Agent Todd was murdered, Agent Cassidy was killed in an ...
August 24, 2009
Slow Reading
There's a beautiful, thought-provoking commentary on reading in the August 23 NY Times, a tribute to the late Richard Poirier, whose work I confess I didn't know–but am now eager to read. Poirier wrote about reading in slow motion–like the slow food movement–a step aside from our hyperlinking era.
I've pasted much of the essay below:
A Man of Good Reading By ALEXANDER STAR
The literary scholar Richard Poirier, who died last weekend at the age of 83, was one of the strong critics of his time...
August 20, 2009
Hardball, Chapter 1, Part 1
Click below to listen to author Sara Paretsky read from Hardball, Chapter 1. Part 1 of 2.
Hardball, Chapter 1, Part 1
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August 19, 2009
In the Unlikely Event
Of one's own death, what happens to all your emails, websites, blogs, bank accounts and bills with online only access? Searching for another topic, I came on a nifty article in Time Magazine, "How to Manage your online life when you're dead." There are several companies now that will store your details–passwords, and so on. They'll check in with you periodically to see if you're still alive, and if some number of e-mails go unanswered, they'll release your information to a designated...
August 18, 2009
Hardball, Chapter 1, Part 2
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August 17, 2009
Hardball, Chapter 24
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August 16, 2009
FYI
The New York Times Magazine has an essay of mine this morning in the "Lives" section. It's about my husband's and my experience with the French health system, with a side look at a French student of French eating disorders.
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