by Admin | Jul 14, 2012 | Books, Matthew Scudder, Reviews
Lawrence Block’s The Night and the Music has a kind of finality to it that his many readers will be sorry about. Not a finality suggesting that he’s about to hang up his pen, but that it might be closing time for his most famous creation, Matt Scudder…. Block is one...
by Admin | Jul 13, 2012 | For Writers
A very interesting announcement by the great Kate Wilhelm. Here’s the opening, with a link to the rest on her website: “Open letter to word watchers: “I’ve been a writer since 1956 when I sold my first short story. My first novel came in 1962....
by Admin | Jul 13, 2012 | Matthew Scudder, Reviews
Block is one of the easiest writers to read that you’ll ever have the good fortune to come across. He doesn’t seem to write prose so much as invite you to listen to him (or Matt Scudder) talk. You’re engaged in a conversation. And while admittedly...
by Admin | Jul 10, 2012 | John Warren Wells
July 10, 2012 Around the time 1963 was turning into 1964, I was living in a suburb of Buffalo and trying mightily to make ends meet. I’d done nothing but write for a living ever since I dropped out of college in 1959, and in the interim had acquired a wife and...
by Admin | Jul 10, 2012 | John Warren Wells
Around the time 1963 was turning into 1964, I was living in a suburb of Buffalo and trying mightily to make ends meet. I’d done nothing but write for a living ever since I dropped out of college in 1959, and in the interim had acquired a wife and fathered two...
