Author: paretsky
September 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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Harold Washington Literary Award
Near South Planning Board gives Sara Paretsky 2012 Harold Washington Literary Award. Previous recipients include Toni Morrison, Margaret Atwood and Saul Bellow.
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Darraugh Graham Rebrands Himself
The Board of the company formerly known as “Continental United” spent a great deal of money on an image and branding consulting firm in order to come up with a […]
READ MOREMarch 29, 2012
On Weapons
Shortly after publishing my third book, I met a private detective who came to a reading at Kate’s Mystery Books outside Boston. The detective told me her practice is a […]
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