The possibility of bringing white-collar criminals to justice is ever receding over the horizon.

Sisters in Crime now has more than 4,000 members worldwide.

No agent wants to see a book until he or she has decided whether to pursue the relationship

I live and die with the Chicago Cubs

It's hard for me to believe that just my words on the page are enough. I ought to be out physically keeping abortion safe and legal, restoring the Fourth Amendment, getting clean water back into Kentucky since the Bush Administration has allowed strip miners to fill it all up with slag. The list is endless. Bring it down. Make it small. Make it one thing that you can do. It's very hard for me to remember that.

Capo, my first golden retriever, so loved to swim she once jumped off a cliff to get into Lake Superior.

I believe in the dull lie - make your story boring enough and no one will question it.