Category: Blog
February 2, 2009
The iPod and the cellphone and the YouTube that we know
May just be passing fancies And in time may go But the book is here to stay Or not. My editor tells me this is the last time the company will […]
READ MOREJanuary 25, 2009
Alchemy, Chap 3 (beginning)
3 “You have five minutes to explain why you didn’t tell me that Cardozo is dead. Because that’s how long I’m going to wait before I call the […]
READ MOREJanuary 24, 2009
Reigns of Terror
I think I spent a good chunk of the last eight years writing letters to W, to his secretary of state, and to my senators, protesting everything from W’s dismemberment […]
READ MOREJanuary 20, 2009
The Inauguration
We watched with friends. I won’t add commentary, since we were all in the moment together, and it doesn’t need parsing. I thought Barack gave a good and forceful speech, […]
READ MOREJanuary 16, 2009
Your copyrights and google
In 2004, Google made arrangements with the University of Michigan to digitize their entire library, some seven or eight million volumes. Google planned to make this library available to the […]
READ MOREJanuary 10, 2009
Alchemy, chap 2, In which the Expected Occurs
2 Don Pasquale and his cronies lived in River Forest, an old suburb just west of Chicago, where Frank Lloyd Wright houses and a charming little shopping street make […]
READ MOREDecember 31, 2008
It's New Year's
And a bright sunny day in Chicago. Cold, but nothing like the -2 F we had a week ago, so we’re happy. About half a mile from my home, in […]
READ MOREDecember 21, 2008
South Chicago
The map that I’ve put at the top of the blog is a slice of a stylized drawing of South Chicago, the neighborhood where V I Warshawski grew up. I’ve […]
READ MOREDecember 20, 2008
Writing Late at night
I was imagining a V I kind of story and started it here on the blog, Alchemy, Chapter One–but I didn’t explain that it was a kind of story, or […]
READ MOREDecember 7, 2008
Hardball: the return of V I
This is the title of a new novel about V I which I finished writing a few weeks ago. My publisher likes it, so it’s a go. They haven’t given […]
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