Just Three Days Left…
July 29, 2010
Just Three Days Left…
… to enter the “How well do you know V I Warshawski” contest. Your chance for a signed advance reader copy of Body Work is just a mouse click away.
READ MOREJuly 26, 2010
Publishers Weekly gives Body Work a Star
Body Work Sara Paretsky, Putnam, $26.95 (432p) ISBN 978-0-399-15674-8 Paretsky’s superb 14th novel featuring PI V.I. Warshawski (after Hardball) delves into Chicago’s avant-garde art scene. At the trendy Club Gouge, where Warshawski is keeping an eye on Petra, a young cousin who caused trouble in the previous book, performance artist Karen Buckley (aka the Body […]
READ MOREJuly 19, 2010
Mini Hiatus
We’re making a video, a sort of “day in the life” in V I’s Chicago. I’m also taking part in Discovery Channel’s new “Hardcover Mysteries” series. I’ll let you know the run date. That, getting ready to launch Body Work, and trying to come up with a storyline for a new book have kept me […]
READ MOREJuly 11, 2010
How Well Do You Know V I Warshawski?
I’ve received bound galleys of Body Work, the new V I novel, from Putnam’s, and I have three to give away to the people who know V I best. Answer these five questions correctly, and your name will go into a hat for a drawing on August 2. Send your answers to: vi-bodywork@mindspring.com if you […]
READ MOREJuly 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 our posterity, do establish and ordain this Constitution of the United States of America. Yesterday was the Fourth of July, and I went with my […]
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 in Chicago Police Area 2, but of lying about the torture under oath. Many hundreds of people were (allegedly) tortured, some into confessing to crimes […]
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 to track wolf habits and habitats. The whole trip seemed so fascinating, and yet so physically challenging, that I asked her to share the adventure […]
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 wrote, Naked-eyed toy soldiers take few shortcuts through hell. We all had our own piece of hell. In this mess of a war, in this […]
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 to Kansas City and my dad would take me on the train to watch them. Of all the dancers I saw, the one who most […]
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 Dead Time. We bonded over concerns about depictions of women and African-Americans in crime fiction, and the fact that we both had full-time corporate jobs […]
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