Author: paretsky
October 9, 2012
October 9: Where in Chicago Is V I Warshawski
We had a great response to Week 1 and we have two winners! Rachel Benoit, and silvermaple@ca.rr.com As soon as we get mailing addresses, we’ll get early copies of the […]
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October 2: Where in Chicago is V I Warshawski?
V I is a big sports fan. She went to college on a basketball scholarship, her cousin Boom-Boom played for the Blackhawks, and she herself follows Chicago baseball and football. […]
READ MORESeptember 28, 2012
Where in the World is V I Warshawski?
V I Warshawski spends a lot of time racing across Chicago looking for clues. Here’s your chance to join her on her journeys! Every Tuesday for the next seven weeks […]
READ MORESeptember 20, 2012
On the Road
I recently went to Vienna, Austria to do a little background work for the novel I’m currently writing. I wanted to see the Institute for Radium Research, which was radical […]
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Assault
I have never been raped. One in seven American women experiences this dehumanizing assault some time during her life, so I know, compared to my sisters, that I have been […]
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Chapter One
The first chapter of my work in progress will be included as a special addition to the paperback of Breakdown when that appears in December. However, as a thank you […]
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Cherry Picking Our Sacred Documents
Over the weekend, I heard from a man I went to school with almost 40 years ago. He made a fortune as a stockbroker and in retirement is active in […]
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UK Edition of Breakdown
Breakdown will be on sale in paperback everywhere on December 4. Look for these special lightboxes in airports as you fly this winter.
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Deaccession
This is a year of deaccession for me. Libraries and museums use the word deaccession to mean gleaning from their collections. I’ve been sorting through clutter; two weeks ago I […]
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That Was Then, This is Now
My mother’s father died when she was sixteen; I never met him. He was a doctor in Roodhouse, the small town in downstate Illinois where he grew up. During World […]
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