Comments on: In Flanders Fields

By: genny from jersey

genny from jersey — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 13:24:30 +0000

Sara, thanks for the preview. Can’t wait! I just have to figure out how to get a signed copy this time.

By: the Bag Lady

the Bag Lady — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 12:22:16 +0000

Ohmygosh! – you’ll be in Coeur D’Alene in October! We were just discussing with the in-laws about going on a vacation there….. in Aug/Sept. Wonder if I can talk them into holding off until October.
Probably not. Sigh.

By: paretsky

paretsky — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 03:14:28 +0000

My tour is complicated this year by the High Holy Days and by labor day. It would have been better if Putnam could have delayed publication until I got back from Japan, but there’s no ideal universe, and the August 31 pub date made the most sense to them. I haven’t been east with a book since 2003, so I’ll have to figure out something! But, Genny, as a consolation prize, here’s your paragraph:
“
My best materials engineer, Genny Winne, did the analysis. Winne says that she’s prepared to testify on both those points, and she doesn’t say that unless she thinks her results are unimpeachable.”

By: CherylK

CherylK — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 02:13:23 +0000

Yes!! Minneapolis…September 2nd…I am SO THERE! I am still really disappointed that I couldn’t make it to Chicago last year. If I bring Hardball with me would you autograph it, too, please?

By: genny from jersey

genny from jersey — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 00:33:33 +0000

Oh no, I’m so disappointed–nothing on the east coast. Last year we had such a great time at your Bethesda stop. Any chance that you’ll be adding any additional dates?

By: paretsky

paretsky — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 17:25:29 +0000

Shirley, the publication date for Body Work is August 31. I’ve just put up my US tour schedule: http://www.saraparetsky.com/events/
And shortly I’ll be having a contest for an early copy of the book.
Thanks for your interest

By: Shirley

Shirley — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 17:14:13 +0000

Sara, Do you have a publication date for “Body Work” yet?

By: Bani

Bani — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 08:15:57 +0000

In between blinking away tears at this I am so impressed and happy to see how many brave people there are who dare bear witness to their experiences as soldiers in all these wars. That’s courage.

By: Sara Paretsky

Sara Paretsky — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 02:12:41 +0000

Genny, I didn’t know about this museum. I’ll go this week. And I’m sorry you lost your cousin; his sounds like such an important voice.

By: genny from jersey

genny from jersey — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 22:10:16 +0000

Sara, Moody’s piece in “Streetwise” reminds me of my cousin’s response to his time in Vietnam. He was one of the original artist that helped start the National Vietnam Veterans Art Museum in Chicago. A number of his pieces are on display there. Unfortunately he is no longer with us.

About one of his pieces he wrote:

“The figure I draw is the depersonalized soldier, the soldier within, who has suppressed the emotion of the community of war. To me it is impossible to see war as anything but an old habit of thinking, an old frame of mind and an old male political maneuver.

The physical act of war contains many ingredients: the personality of heroism, horror, a strange glamour, destruction, and desolation. I have internalized the experience of the physical act of war and transformed it into the metaphorical gestures of the human form. The living becomes a brutalized icon.”

I don’t know if you’ve visited the museum. For those of us the lived through those years, it’s an experience that is difficult to describe.