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August 24, 2012
Assault
I have never been raped. One in seven American women experiences this dehumanizing assault some time during her life, so I know, compared to my sisters, that I have been […]
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Chapter One
The first chapter of my work in progress will be included as a special addition to the paperback of Breakdown when that appears in December. However, as a thank you […]
READ MOREJuly 23, 2012
Cherry Picking Our Sacred Documents
Over the weekend, I heard from a man I went to school with almost 40 years ago. He made a fortune as a stockbroker and in retirement is active in […]
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Deaccession
This is a year of deaccession for me. Libraries and museums use the word deaccession to mean gleaning from their collections. I’ve been sorting through clutter; two weeks ago I […]
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That Was Then, This is Now
My mother’s father died when she was sixteen; I never met him. He was a doctor in Roodhouse, the small town in downstate Illinois where he grew up. During World […]
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Darraugh Graham Rebrands Himself
The Board of the company formerly known as “Continental United” spent a great deal of money on an image and branding consulting firm in order to come up with a […]
READ MOREMarch 29, 2012
On Weapons
Shortly after publishing my third book, I met a private detective who came to a reading at Kate’s Mystery Books outside Boston. The detective told me her practice is a […]
READ MOREMarch 15, 2012
Sara Paretsky Day at the Chicago Public Library
The Chicago Public Library declared March 14 “Sara Paretsky Day.” They made a wonderful event of it, putting up posters in all the branches, and getting Mayor Rahm Emmanuel to […]
READ MOREMarch 11, 2012
Name That Corporation!
Did the first Breakdown contest frustrate you because you had to be a U.S. resident with a Facebook page? Here’s your chance to enter and win no matter where you are […]
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What is Too Political for Fun?
Every time I publish a book, I know I’ll get some angry letters, and readers response to Breakdown proved no exception. “I just threw away my hardcover copy,” one reader […]
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