Sara Paretsky Takes On Homeland Security
My attention was caught yesterday afternoon by an interview of author Sara Paretsky interview by The Progressive. Paretsky discussed her identity as an author of crime fiction, but then talked about her non-fiction interests, which seem focused on the threats to American liberty posed by the american government’s transformation into a nationalist regime of Homeland Security.
Paretsky writes about her ideas about the Homeland Security State in her memoir, Writing In An Age Of Silence, as well as through fiction in the V I Warshawski tale, Blacklist: “The trail leads her back to the McCarthy era blacklists, and forward to the ominous police powers the American government has assumed today. V I finds herself penned into a smaller and smaller space by an array of business and political leaders who can call on the power of the Patriot Act to shut her up.”
It’s an interview worth listening to, and two books worth reading.
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