Author: paretsky
April 9, 2011
To F*CK, or Not
I just came from seeing Black Watch, a play about the famed Scottish regiment put on by the National Theatre of Scotland. The play is about the deployment of the […]
READ MOREApril 1, 2011
Home is the Sailor
I’m just back from a great trip overseas, touring in the UK for Body Work. I did a few posts on Facebook along the way but I’ll try to share […]
READ MOREMarch 7, 2011
The Power to Destroy
America’s great first Chief Justice John Marshall famously wrote, “The power to tax involves the power to destroy.” Today, the power to refuse to levy taxes is proving a more […]
READ MOREMarch 2, 2011
From chapter 30 of the New Book
From Chapter 30 of the book with no name My dreams were filled with Miles and Iva Wuchnik. Iva climbed onto the catafalque to lie next to her brother. The […]
READ MOREFebruary 24, 2011
Tweeting VI
Nisha Susan, who had been using “VIWarshawski” as her twitter handle, graciously gave the name to me. You can now follow VI on Twitter. I loved the suggestions people sent […]
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How to Tweet V I
I was thinking of starting a Twitter account in V I’s name, only to find that someone is already using “V I WArshawski.” The someone is a woman named Nisha […]
READ MOREJanuary 13, 2011
Singing in the Snow
Winter blues got you down? I know! Let’s put on a show! Every January for the last hundred years or so, enthusiastic performers from the University of Chicago community have […]
READ MOREJanuary 9, 2011
Arizona Massacre
Yesterday, January 8, as most of you know, a gunman shot U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords in the brain at point-blank range. She is alive but her condition is critical and […]
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Are Women Human?
We may be human, but we are not persons under the United States Constitution, according to that militantly anti-female Justice, Anton Scalia. The Fourteenth Amendment defines as “citizens” all persons […]
READ MOREDecember 31, 2010
V I and me on New Year’s Eve
I spent six hours today, New Year’s Eve, writing and rewriting 600 words. One question I’m often asked is my daily writing quota. I’d love to write 1500 – 2000 […]
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