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February 12, 2012
A Farewell to Arms, or at least to Touring
I was on the road with my new novel, Breakdown, from the first of January until February 2, so I substituted little snippets on Facebook for my blog. Being on […]
READ MORENovember 29, 2011
Good News on the Budget Frontiers
My native state, Kansas, has so little money that the governor cancelled the state arts program, tried to eliminate all funding for family planning, slashed budgets for judicial support staff–putting […]
READ MORENovember 24, 2011
Happy Thanksgiving
To all friends near and far, new and old. I am grateful for another year with such good friends, grateful for my cousin Barb and her intrepid spirit, serving in […]
READ MORENovember 19, 2011
Why I Write
Publishers Weekly invited me to contribute an essay to their weekly “Why I Write” column. My piece ran on November 18; for those of you who, like me, don’t have […]
READ MORENovember 6, 2011
Testimony Before the City Council
(On Wednesday, November 2, I joined Robert Wislow and Stuart Dybek in presenting testimony to the Chicago City Council in defense of the library system. Since people who weren’t there […]
READ MORENovember 3, 2011
And the winner is…
Many thanks to everyone who took part in the “Name the Flashlight Slogan” contest. The ideas were all unusual and wonderful, and it was hard to choose a winner. We […]
READ MOREOctober 30, 2011
There is no frigate like a book
And no harbor like a library ,where those who love books but can’t afford their own complete collections, or those who need a computer, or kids who need a safe […]
READ MOREOctober 12, 2011
The printed word
Is not a spent force. On October 11 I attended the dedication of the University of Chicago’s new library, the Mansueto library. At a time when many libraries, public and […]
READ MOREAugust 31, 2011
Finishing
Yesterday I finished making my final edits, responding to the publisher’s final edits, on a new book (Breakdown, which will be in stores on January 3). This should be a […]
READ MOREAugust 22, 2011
Happy Birthday to V I
This coming January, V I Warshawski will turn thirty. It makes me gulp–a whole generation of readers and writers has matured since the brash Chicago PI first came on the […]
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