Category: Blog
April 22, 2010
Art, 2, Market, Zero
When the Pulitzer Prizes were announced last week, there were two wonderful surprises. The Prize in Editorial cartooning went to San Francisco’s Mark Fiore, and the Prize in Fiction went […]
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Reeling and Writhing
Tony Kushner was speaking on the University of Chicago campus the other night. He’s a very animated speaker, interesting to listen to, and incredibly thoughtful. The University theater is staging […]
READ MOREMarch 26, 2010
And the Winner Is…
I turned in my manuscript, I went to Crimea, I had my tooth implant–but I haven’t forgotten the Book Title Contest. First, the bad news. My editors preferred Body Work, […]
READ MOREMarch 23, 2010
Why I Can’t Write a Book Every Year
One of the questions I get almost every place I go is a request to describe my work day. When I was young, it was action packed. I wrote 4000 […]
READ MOREMarch 4, 2010
In England and Crimea
This is a very long post, about my trip abroad, so I’ve broken it up by date, and you can read a bit at a time. Sadly, I don’t have […]
READ MOREFebruary 28, 2010
Crimea
Just a quick note to say the English tour was wonderful; I loved the Watermill, a crisp clear day where we saw swans and other waterbirds. The venue itself was […]
READ MOREFebruary 11, 2010
Getting Ready for the Road
I’m trying to pack, trying to pull myself together for the road. I suffer from separation anxiety, and the further I’m going, the longer I’ll be gone, the greater the […]
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PotPourri, including a chapter from the new book
I leave on February 13 for my UK tour of Hardball. Kerry Hood, who is the Toscanini of publicity, has me covering as much of England as we can manage […]
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Liu Xiaobo, Prisoner of Conscience
On December 23, 2009, the People’s Republic of China condemned the poet Liu Xiaobo for the crime of “inciting subversion of state power.” The trial lasted less than three hours, […]
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Revels
Every January for more than 5o years, people in the University of Chicago community have tried to lighten winter’s bleakness with a musical revue. For many years, the witty Robert […]
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