Author: paretsky
July 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 […]
READ MOREJune 1, 2010
Air and Rice
I took a week away from the computer and it was very restful. I’m trying to work out ways to focus more on my writing, less on anxiety and the […]
READ MOREMay 24, 2010
The Copy-Editor’s Revenge
After writing in here about my editing woes, I thought I’d give Shakespeare’s copy editor, channeled here by Rowan Atkinson, a chance to reply:
READ MOREMay 24, 2010
Hardball-Coming July 31 in Paperback
Hardball, which was one of 2009’s five “most mesmerizing mysteries,” according to National Public Radio, will be out in paper on July 31.
READ MOREMay 21, 2010
As Granny used to say…
A friend of mine wrote recently, and said, “‘It’s a great life, if you don’t weaken,’ as my grandmother used to say.” The images that conjured up were somewhat terrifying, […]
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