Critical Mass, Chapter 21, Part 2
June 26, 2014
Critical Mass, Chapter 21, Part 2
Click below to listen to author Sara Paretsky read from Critical Mass, Chapter 21. Part 2 of 3. Critical Mass, Chapter 21, Part 2
READ MOREJune 26, 2014
Critical Mass, Chapter 21, Part 3
Click below to listen to author Sara Paretsky read from Critical Mass, Chapter 21. Part 3 of 3. Critical Mass, Chapter 21, Part 3
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Moving On
American impatience, American optimism, all seem summed in the phrase, “Move on.” We have a death or another greater or lesser loss and we’re adjured to get over it, to move on, not to wallow. Eight years ago I was badly injured in a car crash–a kid going 80 on a Chicago expressway rear-ended us, […]
READ MOREFebruary 12, 2014
Critical Mass–Critical Response
Marilyn Stasio in the New York Times says, “There are plenty of women among…genre writers, but not many like Sara Paretsky…Critical Mass hits a nerve with its historical back story about a Viennese physicist, “a great scientist who had a gender handicap.” Steve Bertrand talks to Sara Paretsky about Critical Mass and Chicago on WGN Radio Randy Cohen’s creative show, “Person, Place, […]
READ MOREDecember 23, 2013
Critical Response to Critical Mass
The Crime Review does a fun “countdown” with the author. The London Times calls Critical Mass “A career crowning achievement.”
READ MOREDecember 22, 2013
Just gimme love
She was 21, he was 24, they’d known each other for three months when they decided to get married. They were both graduate students in bacteriology at Iowa State College in Ames. It was December 22, 1942 and they ran away to a neighboring county for a secret wedding: the laws of the time meant […]
READ MORENovember 29, 2013
Agreeing with O’Reilly and Palin about the War on Christmas
And it came to pass that the Divine Justice heard that war was being waged on Christmas. Humans waged innumerable wars. They all called on the Holy One to support their battling sides in each war they fought, so much so that the heavenly host had put a block on all incoming war petitions. And […]
READ MOREAugust 8, 2013
ARC Giveaway
We’re holding a drawing to give away two advance copies of Critical Mass. To enter, simply send an email to vicontests@mindspring.com Critical Mass is partly set in Vienna during Lotty Herschel’s childhood, when Austria’s Nazi government forced her family to leave their apartment and share four rooms with twelve other people. Here’s a photograph I […]
READ MOREJuly 20, 2013
Coming in October… Critical Mass
V.I.’s newest outing takes her from drug houses to Vienna’s posh cafés. Critical Mass goes on sale everywhere October 22nd. Pre-order here. Booklist’s starred review says Critical Mass is Paretsky at her “most dynamic since the early days.”
READ MOREJuly 20, 2013
Girls in the Game: We Want to Hear About Women Athletes
I love Girls in the Game. Through my Sara & Two C-Dogs Foundation I support about ten programs, which range from sending kids to Montana to dig for dinosaurs, through scholarships for young women musicians trying for their big break, to literacy for pregnant teens and teen moms. There’s a special energy and team spirit […]
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