This post originally appeared on Murder Is Everywhere. A novelist I greatly admire wrote her last blogpost in September. Catriona McPherson, formerly of the Femmes Fatales, declared that that with the election ahead, so much work needed to be done that she felt it useless to write about “cats and courgettes”—nor did she want to turn her … Read more
This post originally appeared on Murder Is Everywhere. “Wear all black,” the woman said over the phone. Come at eight-thirty, and don’t carry too much. Be prepared to go from the Supreme Court of the United States to the offices of senators. Last Sunday, I learned the Women’s March organizers were a series of actions this … Read more
This post originally appeared on Murder Is Everywhere. I regret to interrupt my regularly scheduled post—which was going to be food-related, alas!—because my life keeps getting interrupted. Just like my nation’s standard operating procedure. These days, my writing schedule seems divided between fiction and emails to senators, congressmen, and activist friends. And I’ve been on … Read more