D-Day Minus Two!

D-Day Minus Two! David Trevor here, doing for LB what he can’t seem to do for himself. In our most recent newsletter, which was devoted entirely to the deluxe Subterranean Press editions of The Burglar Who Met Fredric Brown and The Autobiography Matthew Scudder,...

WHO’S THAT KNOCKING ON MY DOOR?

Whoever it is, tell ’em to come back with a warrant. Now what kind of an attitude is that? Well, maybe you’ll change it when I answer the question. That’s Opportunity knocking, and she’s got places to go and people to see. You might want to put down your phone...

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Here’s the link, missing at the end of the Naked & Deadly Introduction blog post: A Naked and Deadly...

A Naked and Deadly Introduction

As many of you may know, just about everything I’ve written, in a lifetime in which I’ve written far too much, is now once again available, much of it through the miracle of ebooks and print-on-demand paperbacks. The passing years have seen Ego and Avarice...

WHAT’S A META FOR???

Oh, word play. How clever. And how perceptive of you to spot it. But let me move past the pleasantries, if that’s what they are, and get right to the news. Once that’s out of our way, I’ve another item that might make the headline a little more pertinent. First,...

LB’s April Newsletter: THE SCUDDER CAPSTONE

THE SCUDDER CAPSTONE   David Trevor here. I mentioned to LB that we were a long time between newsletters, and that we really ought to share a couple of reviews, etc. “So write one,” he said, and went back to whatever he was doing. (Don’t ask.) I’ll start with The...

Spring Forward! Fall Further and Further Behind!

I suppose you’re referring to Daylight Savings Time. I am, and its return always sparks joy, although I’d be hard-pressed to tell you why. It seems to promise extra hours, but I’ve never been able to find more than the usual twenty-four in a day. And even those hours...

Beyond Roald Dahl and Ian Fleming…

There’s been a fair amount of media attention paid lately to the decisions of the estates of both Roald Dahl and Ian Fleming to make extensive edits to their respective bodies of work with an eye toward improving passages that might strike a contemporary reader...