Category: Blog
May 20, 2015
KU Commencement Address, May 17 2015
I was privileged to receive the honorary degree of Doctor of Letters and to address the graduates at the University of Kansas on their May 17 2015 Commencement. Remarks […]
READ MOREMay 12, 2015
The DOLLUS Syndrome
Sara published an essay in the May 1 Booklist on issues around missing voices in contemporary crime fiction Sara’s new novel Brush Back, about troubled families, Chicago sports, and Illinois politics, will […]
READ MOREFebruary 24, 2015
Who We Like To Read
After a week of totally unscientific polling, in which visitors to my Facebook page listed their favorite crime/thriller/mystery writers, we came up with a list of 276 beloved writers. They’re […]
READ MOREJanuary 3, 2015
Miss Bianca: A Cold WAr Story
Miss Bianca by Sara Paretsky Abigail made her tour of the cages, adding water to all the drinking bowls. The food was more complicated, because not all the mice got […]
READ MORENovember 18, 2014
Voices on the Margins
Remarks to open the session on “Voices on the Margins,” Bouchercon 2014, Long Beach We live in a society that is contemptuous of the written word. Many, perhaps most, cities […]
READ MOREOctober 15, 2014
Climate Change Ballad Number 1
The story of 35000 walruses crowded together on an Alaska beach because of the disappearance of Arctic ice distressed me as I’m sure it did you. I don’t know if […]
READ MORESeptember 8, 2014
Words in Honor of Dorothy Salisbury Davis (1916-2014)
I went to Dorothy’s home town in Sneden’s Landing for her interment and memorial. Although she had a long and rich life, it’s still very hard to know that this […]
READ MOREAugust 28, 2014
Home is the sailor
And I’m home, as well. Time goes too quickly these days, so I want to write a little about my recent trip to the UK (soon to be only a […]
READ MOREJuly 4, 2014
Happy 4th
When I was a child, before my family imploded, my father used to take us for a walk on the 4th and retell the story of the Revolution. We would […]
READ MOREMay 2, 2014
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 […]
READ MORE