Breakdown Contest
December 13, 2011
Breakdown Contest
Sara’s hosting a contest on Facebook page to celebrate the release of Breakdown. To enter, fill out the multiple choice questions about Breakdown, Body Work, and the other books you can read right here on the site. Grand Prize is a walk on role in V.I.’s next adventure!
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 court dates far into the future for many defendants–and even eliminated funding for a place that cares for severely brain-damaged adults, including many returning veterans. […]
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 the Peace Corps far from home, to my friends who keep small bookstores going, living on the most minute of salaries to keep the living […]
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 a subscription to PW, here’s the essay: Years ago, when I was in my twenties, I heard an interview with the composer Aaron Copland. The […]
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 have wanted to see my remarks I’m posting them here.) My name is Sara Paretsky and I am here today to speak against proposed library […]
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 finally settled on: “V I Warshawski, matchless for 30 years” and Matea Varvodic has won an early copy of Breakdown.
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 place to read after school, or moms with toddlers who want their babies to learn to read, can all come together and share in a […]
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 private, are cutting acquisitions to the bone, or moving books to remote storage facilities, the U of C has made a bold and strong commitment […]
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 time of euphoria, but endings are for me melancholy times. I typically go around in a kind of brain-dead fog for several weeks. This time […]
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 scene in 1982. I have plenty of time to brood about age and aging, but very little time to figure out how to celebrate this […]
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