Sara Paretsky's latest novel is Shell Game, the 19th V.I. Warshawski book.From her CrimeReads interview with Lori Rader-Day:
Lori Rader-Day: The reviews of your latest book, Shell Game, are all referencing your ability to work current affairs into each of your books. In Shell Game we have the stolen antiquities, the Russian mob, ISIS, and rogue ICE agents. How does dealing in current world issues help keep your series fresh? Or is that the goal?--Marshal Zeringue
Sara Paretsky: I think that it actually comes out of a slightly different approach, if that’s the right word. I write what’s on my mind. There’s a wonderful Chicago writer, Carol Anshaw, whose books are very under-recognized, but she took up painting in middle age and she calls herself an autodidact, which always sounds to me like an extinct bird. But I am an autodidact as a writer. I sometimes think I would be a better writer if I actually had some training, more discipline, more focus. But I write what’s on my mind. And maybe it keeps the series fresh.
It’s sounds like it’s keeping you fresh.
Yeah. If I don’t care about it, I can’t write about it. …When I started 100 years ago, I was working full time for...[read on]