Author: paretsky
July 29, 2010
Just Three Days Left…
… to enter the “How well do you know V I Warshawski” contest. Your chance for a signed advance reader copy of Body Work is just a mouse click away.
READ MOREJuly 26, 2010
Publishers Weekly gives Body Work a Star
Body Work Sara Paretsky, Putnam, $26.95 (432p) ISBN 978-0-399-15674-8 Paretsky’s superb 14th novel featuring PI V.I. Warshawski (after Hardball) delves into Chicago’s avant-garde art scene. At the trendy Club Gouge, […]
READ MOREJuly 19, 2010
Mini Hiatus
We’re making a video, a sort of “day in the life” in V I’s Chicago. I’m also taking part in Discovery Channel’s new “Hardcover Mysteries” series. I’ll let you know […]
READ MOREJuly 11, 2010
How Well Do You Know V I Warshawski?
I’ve received bound galleys of Body Work, the new V I novel, from Putnam’s, and I have three to give away to the people who know V I best. Answer […]
READ MOREJuly 5, 2010
We the People
of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, promote the general welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and […]
READ MOREJune 29, 2010
Guilty
Yesterday, a jury found former Chicago police commander Jon Burge guilty. Not of the torture which it’s alleged he committed and/or oversaw in his years as a detective and commander […]
READ MOREJune 27, 2010
Call of the Wild
Kathy Lyndes, a friend of mine, and her partner are drawn to the lives of wolves. They just came back from eight days on Isle Royale, assisting in a project […]
READ MOREJune 16, 2010
In Flanders Fields
I bought StreetWise today from Roarke E Moody, the vendor I know best. Moody is a Vietnam vet, and a poet, and for the Memorial Day issue of the paper he […]
READ MOREJune 10, 2010
Aging Gracefully
When I was a child, I was ballet mad, like many little girls. We lived in a small town in eastern Kansas, and now and again famous troups would come […]
READ MOREJune 5, 2010
Eleanor Taylor Bland
Eleanor Taylor Bland, 1944-2010. Eleanor Taylor Bland, 1944-2010, died on June 1, and our world of writers, readers, humans, is diminished. I first met Eleanor in 1992, when she published […]
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