Category: Blog
November 19, 2011
Why I Write
Publishers Weekly invited me to contribute an essay to their weekly “Why I Write” column. My piece ran on November 18; for those of you who, like me, don’t have […]
READ MORENovember 6, 2011
Testimony Before the City Council
(On Wednesday, November 2, I joined Robert Wislow and Stuart Dybek in presenting testimony to the Chicago City Council in defense of the library system. Since people who weren’t there […]
READ MORENovember 3, 2011
And the winner is…
Many thanks to everyone who took part in the “Name the Flashlight Slogan” contest. The ideas were all unusual and wonderful, and it was hard to choose a winner. We […]
READ MOREOctober 30, 2011
There is no frigate like a book
And no harbor like a library ,where those who love books but can’t afford their own complete collections, or those who need a computer, or kids who need a safe […]
READ MOREOctober 12, 2011
The printed word
Is not a spent force. On October 11 I attended the dedication of the University of Chicago’s new library, the Mansueto library. At a time when many libraries, public and […]
READ MOREAugust 31, 2011
Finishing
Yesterday I finished making my final edits, responding to the publisher’s final edits, on a new book (Breakdown, which will be in stores on January 3). This should be a […]
READ MOREAugust 22, 2011
Happy Birthday to V I
This coming January, V I Warshawski will turn thirty. It makes me gulp–a whole generation of readers and writers has matured since the brash Chicago PI first came on the […]
READ MOREJuly 14, 2011
Breakdown
Breakdown is the title of the new V I novel, which will be published early next year. In this excerpt, an old law school friend of V I’s has called […]
READ MOREJune 30, 2011
Twice their Natural Size
I was at a dinner recently for an organization that does important work in the arena of climate change and energy policy. In the middle of a conversation I was […]
READ MOREJune 7, 2011
I am Not V I Warshawski
People often ask me how much like V I Warshawki I am, and I have to say, not at all. This morning I went out early to Lake Michigan with […]
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