Reviews of Craig Johnson and more… Summer is on its way but it’s not quite time for beach reads. In this month’s selection, the old adage that crime happens everywhere couldn’t be clearer. From the sparsely populated areas policed by the heroes in Craig Johnson and Karin Salvalaggio’s latest series installments—it’s a safe bet that […]
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Interview with Sara Paretsky
Interview with Sara Paretsky The Strand Magazine: Sara, what are you working on now? Sara Paretsky: I’m at the very beginning of a new book that will take V.I. into the world of biological warfare. TSM: Who was the inspiration for V.I. Warshawski? SP: I had wanted to create a hard-boiled woman investigator from […]
Lyndsay Faye on Victorian Writing and Upon Women and Their Uses
Lyndsay Faye on Victorian Writing What are women useful for? The question has plagued humanity since the dawn of time. Certain answers are more obvious than others: we excel at pregnancy by comparison to men. Childbirth is another arena in which men don’t hold a candle to our capabilities. Likewise child-rearing has long been the […]