Author: paretsky
December 2, 2009
A Quiet Week
in Lake Woebegone, Garrison Keillor’s home town, but not so much so in Chicago. We started with a gang of housebreakers who targeted our area. They would come to the […]
READ MORENovember 22, 2009
The Wolf in the Garden
It was dusk when I finally drove into the city of W–. A series of mishaps had dogged my journey, making me feel almost as though the Fates themselves were […]
READ MORENovember 21, 2009
A Weighty Matter
I was a chubby kid. When we lived in town, a couple of boys in my school used to stand on the sidewalk and chant a rude verse at me […]
READ MORENovember 18, 2009
Will Write For…
A violinist I know who’s part of The New Millennium Orchestra told me they’re working on a business plan these days. Up to now, if they had money they paid […]
READ MORENovember 14, 2009
Waiting for???
Earlier this year I was at a dinner for the Freedom to Read Foundation, and was privileged to be seated at the same table with a gifted Y/A writer, who […]
READ MORENovember 6, 2009
How Much Is Enough?
I have a friend whose husband won the Nobel Prize. We were all thrilled, but he didn’t interpret it as success: he thought he needed two before the restless face […]
READ MORENovember 4, 2009
Mad as Hell?
Or, Testosterone Fights Back. Publishers Weekly has published its list of the ten best books of 2009, and they are all by men. Some, like Richard Holmes’s Age of Wonder, […]
READ MOREOctober 25, 2009
A Nail and a Piece of Glass
Last night, I was at a benefit for the Marjorie Kovler Center, which helps treat survivors of torture, and works to try to end torture. One of the women who […]
READ MOREOctober 20, 2009
Edgar Allen Poe & Joyce Kilmer
While I was at the Bouchercon, I took part in a panel on Poe with John Lutz and Peter Lovesey, who share my interest in him and had both done […]
READ MOREOctober 19, 2009
Home is the Sailor
Or the writer, I guess. I got back late yesterday from the Indianapolis Bouchercon. It was a great chance to reconnect with old friends–especially Liza Cody, from London & Bath, […]
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