by LB | Oct 13, 2021 | Anthologies, Audiobooks, Collectibles, Midcentury Erotica
So tell us, LB—what color is the moon? What kind of question is that? Rhetorical, because I already know the answer. It has to be blue, because there’s a newsletter from you in my inbox, and how often does that happen? It’s been a while, hasn’t it? I could dodge your...
by Admin | Aug 12, 2019 | Audiobooks, Books, Midcentury Erotica, News + Events, Newsletter, Non-Series Novels
“The Joys of Retirement,” eh? That’s really big type you used there. So? It’s almost as if you don’t believe it yourself. You know, if there were a special font for Irony I’d be on it like a mongoose on a cobra. My putative...
by LB | Mar 19, 2018 | Books, Matthew Scudder, Midcentury Erotica, News + Events, Newsletter
…but for the fact that an overgrown rodent in Punxutawney saw his shadow and blessed us all with six more weeks of winter. Which still makes it hard to explain the falling-autumn-leaves motif of this newsletter, but it’s my favorite template and I keep...
by LB | Jun 22, 2015 | Midcentury Erotica, The Crime of Our Lives
~David Trevor here, reporting from LB’s eBay Bookstore. I just spent a couple of hours uploading new listings, and LB says tell everybody what you’ve got to tell them and then you can go home. Well okay. This afternoon I took a big box of galleys and...
by LB | Jun 20, 2015 | Midcentury Erotica
~David Trevor here. A week ago LB found three hardcover first edition copies of the Hard Case Crime/Subterranean Press double volume of Strange Embrace and 69 Barrow Street, two examples of what LB has come to call Midcentury Erotica. He decided he wanted to own one...
by LB | Nov 8, 2014 | Midcentury Erotica
Here’s an email that came in this afternoon: Dear Mr. Block, After a few pages of a pretty bad paperback novel I was reading on my train, I gave up and bought Gigolo Johnny Wells on my Kindle on a whim. I have read a lot of your books, maybe most of them and I...
