Sara Paretsky

It should not take a court order to get a toddler out of a prison.

That was a lovely event. Thanks for reaching out

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Authors Guild is trying a campaign to raise awareness of intellectual theft by AI companies drive.google.com/file/d/1iybD...

Screenshot of an X post by FOX 9 stating that, while describing the impact of an ICE surge, St. Paul’s mayor said agents are asking residents “where the Asian people live” and that she has been advised to carry her passport. The image shows a woman seated at a table speaking into a microphone at a public meeting or hearing, with other officials seated beside her.

To my AANHPI friends: Our families and friends are on their lists, too. Vote out this abominable regime and its enablers.

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Pew Research Institute (2023):

• Red State Texas has about 2.1 million undocumented immigrants

• Red State Florida has 1.6 M undocumented immigrants

• Blue State Minnesota has 130,000.

And yet only Minnesota is being occupied by masked thugs over "immigration."

It's *not* about immigration.

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Many abolitionists were vegetarians. They believed eating red meat inflamed your passions and made you want to claim ownership of other people, and also made you want to inflict pain on other people. Looking at the regime's embrace of RFK's diet recs, abolitionists' ideas seem to be true

I am facing a moral/dietary quandary. I start my day with kefir, milk in my espresso, mid-day snack of cheese, ending with ice cream. I am devastated to learn that I'm on-board with the regime, who are pushing whole milk as a boost for passing cognitive exams.

Terribly uncanny how relevant this is to today.

My slogan for 2026:
No more fascists, no more crooks
Just Happy People Reading Books

I was a sidekick, writing op-eds and letters when they needed text, but they did the heavy lifting that turned Illinois from red to purple to blue. Marcie is 87 now, Terry is 73, and neither of them is slowing down.

Around 1985 she saw that she had a real organization that needed a skilled organizer, so she hired Terry, who worked brilliantly - and tirelessly - for 35 years as a legislative terrier.

In the other photo, I’m with Marcie Love, the brains behind turning around the Illinois legislature, and Terry Cosgrove, brains and brawn. Marcie started Personal PAC at her kitchen table with a few friends back around 1980. Her goal was to start electing pro-choice legislators.

IL governor @jbpritzker.bsky.social and MN Lieutenant Governor @peggyflanagan.bsky.social were the speakers. They did not sugarcoat the dangers we are in but they spoke so powerfully and urgently that we were all inspired. I'm a total JB fan girl and so I shamelessly stalked him for a photo.

Personal PAC, the extremely effective organization that turned Illinois from having the most repressive reproductive healthcare laws in the country to having the most progressive, had its annual lunch last week.

In Grant Park, the crowd is enormous and we are exhilarated!

We handed out banned books, socks, and flyers with ways to support libraries & librarians. We drank wine and cider, and a good time was had by most--except Chiara, who was miffed at the paucity of treats.

p.s.: My t-shirt reads, “Fight Evil, Read Books”

Last night, I hosted a very fun block party to celebrate books. Among the people who stopped by was Deborah Caldwell-Stone, who heads the Freedom to Read Foundation (they’re filing SCOTUS briefs today in the Llano County censorship case).

Join Sara (virtually/online) in conversation with @anncleeves.bsky.social on September 30 at 3pm ET/2pm CT/1pm MT/Noon PT! Registration is required for this special event: bnthekillingstones.eventbrite.com
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Gunnar war in Kassel bei einer Lesung von @saraparetsky.bsky.social Sie las abwechselnd mit ihrer deutschen Verlegerin und Übersetzerin @elselaudan.bsky.social aus ihrem neuesten Roman #Wunderpunkt vor und erzählte in gutem Deutsch von der Entwicklung ihrer Protagonistin. Ein gelungener Abend.

Also everything we do has a big effect in the world and so they worry about that too.

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She said that there has been a lot of intense questioning about the US situation because the alt-right is on the rise in Germany and so they're very worried about what we're doing as their right-wing parties are copying us

At each event, she’s doing a joint reading with her publisher, @elselaudan.bsky.social, part in English and part in German, followed by questions from readers.

Sara is having an amazing time meeting readers in Germany in her tour there! So far she has visited Kassel with Brencher Buchhandlung and Hamburg with Buchhandlung Wassermann, and is looking forward to Munich and Berlin.

sadly - fake news

I never thought I’d see the cowardice that we’re seeing today. The heads of universities, media corps, law firms, elected officials … all afraid of a gaudy orange insecure liar. It’s just overwhelmingly shocking.

Auch im Urlaub hat Gunnar immer einen #Krimi dabei. Diesmal musste der neueste Roman #Wunderpunkt von @saraparetsky.bsky.social mit zum Strand, in dem die Privatermittlerin V.I. Warshawski einem Mordfall in Kansas nachgeht. #Thriller #Urlaubslektüre #Krimiserie @elselaudan.bsky.social

7 neue Titel haben es in die Krimibestenliste August 2025 von Deutschlandfunk und Deutschlandfunk Kultur geschafft und wie Gunnar #Wunderpunkt von @saraparetsky.bsky.social gefallen hat, erfahren wir bestimmt nach seinem Urlaub. Hier auf dem Blog! @elselaudan.bsky.social #Thriller #Krimi #Rezension