Category: Blog
December 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 […]
READ MORENovember 19, 2008
Jumping off the High Board
My favorite cousin has been visiting me and just took off, which leaves me melancholy. She’s an amazing woman: she’s a skilled trekker and wilderness guide, she’s a feminist who […]
READ MORENovember 12, 2008
What should Barack read?
On November 1, the Chicago Tribune invited its two heavy-hitter writers, Aleksander Hemon, and Garry Wills, to come up with a list of required reading for the new president: five […]
READ MORENovember 5, 2008
I can't believe I lived to see the day
From eleven o’clock last night until noon today, November 4, I’ve been getting calls from friends and relations around the world, calling back, hearing the joy, feeling the relief. I […]
READ MORENovember 1, 2008
Studs Terkel, Rest in Action
Studs Terkel died yesterday. Studs was one of the country’s great journalists, in print and on radio, a gifted listener, a commanding raconteur, the ultimate “voice of the voiceless.” He […]
READ MOREOctober 28, 2008
welcome to my world
Why I Support Barack Obama by Sara Paretsky I grew up in rural Kansas, with the kind of Norman Rockwell, regular-gal childhood you hear a lot about these days: […]
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