Ready for Take-Off (or getting there)
September 17, 2009
Ready for Take-Off (or getting there)
We launch Hardball on September 22, and I’m slowly getting ready. We had t-shirts made (be sure to join the raffle if you want one) I’ve done a few interviews, including the chance to take part in NPR’s “You Must Read This” series. I’ll be launching the tour at Barnes & Noble in Old Orchard at 7:30 on […]
READ MORESeptember 13, 2009
Writing in Slow Motion
After I wrote about Richard Poirier, and his desire that we “read in slow motion,” I started thinking about all the things that are better done slowly. Nicole Hollander once did a Sylvia episode that shows the devil offering a man “life in the fast lane” in exchange for his soul: “Fast cars, fast women, […]
READ MORESeptember 10, 2009
Strange Times for Books
“I shall always treasure my books, but I shall do so for antiquarian reasons alone. I am at the same time tremendously excited, as a reader and learner, by the possibility of someday soon being able to carry the equivalent of the Library of Congress in the palm of my hand. That will be the […]
READ MORESeptember 9, 2009
V I, The T-Shirt
We created a t-shirt to celebrate V I’s return to business. They’ll be available as raffle items at the stores where I’ll be on tour, but I’m also holding a raffle through my website so that people who want shirts and can’t make it to my tour events can have a chance to get one. […]
READ MORESeptember 5, 2009
And the Winner Is…
Where was V I Warshawski while I was working on other projects? We posed the question, and people with way more imagination than I have came up with ideas that were both clever and appropriately cynical. Although this is Chicago, the fix was not in. No money or goods or even services changed hands in […]
READ MOREAugust 29, 2009
Scheduling Conflicts
I have a problem: I’m supposed to start my tour for Hardball on September 22, but that’s also the season premiere for NCIS. I confess that I’m a fan. Some of my friends say the dialogue is wooden and the action predictable, others that the show is hard on women, but I still love it. […]
READ MOREAugust 24, 2009
Slow Reading
There’s a beautiful, thought-provoking commentary on reading in the August 23 NY Times, a tribute to the late Richard Poirier, whose work I confess I didn’t know–but am now eager to read. Poirier wrote about reading in slow motion–like the slow food movement–a step aside from our hyperlinking era. I’ve pasted much of the essay […]
READ MOREAugust 19, 2009
Hardball, Chapter 1, Part 1
Click below to listen to author Sara Paretsky read from Hardball, Chapter 1. Part 1 of 2. Hardball, Chapter 1, Part 1
READ MOREAugust 18, 2009
In the Unlikely Event
Of one’s own death, what happens to all your emails, websites, blogs, bank accounts and bills with online only access? Searching for another topic, I came on a nifty article in Time Magazine, “How to Manage your online life when you’re dead.” There are several companies now that will store your details–passwords, and so on. […]
READ MOREAugust 18, 2009
Hardball, Chapter 1, Part 2
Click below to listen to author Sara Paretsky read from Hardball, Chapter 1. Part 2 of 2. Hardball, Chapter 1, Part2
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