Category: Blog
August 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 […]
READ MOREAugust 16, 2009
FYI
The New York Times Magazine has an essay of mine this morning in the “Lives” section. It’s about my husband’s and my experience with the French health system, with a […]
READ MOREAugust 14, 2009
Barack, Gates, and America’s Most Segregated City
A reporter asked me recently how I feel, as a Jew, when I tour in Germany. I said I feel like a ghost–in every major city there’s a Jewish museum […]
READ MOREAugust 7, 2009
Book v Kindle
My cousin Barb, in Ukraine with the Peace Corps, took a Kindle with her, and a mighty fine idea that was, too: remote from any English-language bookstores or libraries, she […]
READ MOREAugust 3, 2009
Urban Life
Strangers to Chicago, and even us hard-bitten natives, are wary of muggers in the parks and after dark. I recently learned that all last winter, as my dog and I […]
READ MOREJuly 30, 2009
Tour schedule for Hardball
When my webmistress, Lisa Hazen, finishes my new site, the blog and the tour info and everything will all be available in one place, and I will be trained in […]
READ MOREJuly 28, 2009
V I’s Whereabouts–Updated
I didn’t give enough details on how and when to send in your suggestions for where V I spent the years I was writing other stories (see the post below […]
READ MOREJuly 26, 2009
Where Has V I Warshawski Been?
Hardball will be in stores on September 22, but I have an extra Advance Reader Copy –what some people call bound galleys. As you may remember, it’s been a few […]
READ MOREJuly 24, 2009
Thank you, New Jersey!
I live in a state that has sent 3 governors to prison since 1960, with a 4th on his way. And I live in a city and county where public […]
READ MOREJuly 22, 2009
Suspicions of Mr. Whicher
This book, by Kate Summerscale, is quite a tour de force. Jonathan Whicher was one of the first detectives in the Metropolitan Police in 19th Century London, and Summerscale tells […]
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