Author: paretsky
December 24, 2010
Ho, Ho, Ho
As this year winds down, I am grateful for much. Thanks to everyone who comes to this site. BagLady and Bookwitch and other readers have found new friends here, […]
READ MOREDecember 19, 2010
Change in Comments Coming
During the last month, I’ve started getting hit by 200-plus spams a day, so I’m going to have to set up a comment registration policy. I’m sorry to inconvenience all […]
READ MOREDecember 11, 2010
Sara, Callie and Bark Magazine
I think if you click on this link, you will be able to read a PDF file of Callie’s and my story in Bark Magazine. If the link doesn’t work, […]
READ MOREDecember 8, 2010
Making Coffee, Giving Prizes–and a Dog–What could be more perfect?
The Alberta Clipper has hit Chicago a month early–with temperatures of -3 to +9 forcast for December 13. So I want to think about lighter things, and just a few […]
READ MORENovember 24, 2010
Congress Shall Make no Law
Abridging the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances. But the town of Columbus, Georgia–that’s another story altogether. For the […]
READ MORENovember 19, 2010
Edgar Allen Poe Awards
On November 18, I learned that the Mystery Writers of America are bestowing the Grand Master Award for Lifetime Achievement on me this coming April. I feel really excited, and […]
READ MORENovember 16, 2010
Elvis is Dead
And I don’t feel so good myself. That’s one of my all-time favorite book titles, by the humorist and memoirist Lewis Grizzard, but it sort of sums up why I’ve […]
READ MOREOctober 21, 2010
Body Work Grand Prize
Yours for not quite the asking, the Grand Prize in the Body Work Sweepstakes. We’re giving away a signed copy of Body Work along with some Chicago memorabilia including not […]
READ MOREOctober 9, 2010
Hossein Derakhshan, Prisoner of Conscience
On September 29, the Iranian government sentenced 33-year-old Canadian-Iranian writer Hossein Derakhshan to 19.5 years in prison for his writing. He was accused of many bogus crimes, including being an […]
READ MOREOctober 3, 2010
JAPAN, PEN literary forum and more
LITERARY FORUM, TOKYO-WASEDA UNIVERSITY PEN-Japan hosted this year’s annual PEN Congress from September 23-September 28, and I was privileged to be present. The Congress began with a literary forum, presented […]
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