LB on Charles Willeford

In this article, originally published in Mystery Scene in 2010, LB talks about Charles Willeford. In the summer of 1985, Lynne and I moved from New York to Fort Myers Beach, Florida. Well, it seemed like a good idea at the time. After we’d been there a few months, I...

My Buddy Akalitus

With a new season of Nurse Jackie starting soon, I thought it might be worth repeating this post. I never did get to the set, but I live in hope… On a Sunday evening a little over a month ago, my Frequent Companion and I were on our way to the Encores!...

Synchronicity keeps happening at the same time…

So I left the house early this morning to catch the Magritte show at the Museum of Modern Art—as if it’s insufficiently surrealistic around here, as I tweeted before departing. I’m glad I went, the man combined great painterly ability with a unique...

Well, here’s an interesting site:

It’s called eReaderiQ, and it tracks titles on Kindle. If you want, it’ll notify you when a title you’re interested in drops in price. I did an EgoSearch, naturally, and found it fascinating to see all my titles listed, with price reductions...

Well, some of you can hear me now…

On June 25 I blogged about audiobooks, and five days later, coincidentally enough, The New York Times had an unrelated feature on the subject. My thanks to Norman Haase, who called my attention to this letter in the Times: To the Editor: Re “Actors Today Don’t Just...