by Admin | Aug 9, 2011 | LB's Afterthoughts, Reviews
“Anyone who wants to be a writer, who is thinking of being a writer, or who just likes to read how a writer thinks will want to read Lawrence Block’s new book on writing called Afterthoughts. Plus it gives a very real, very clear picture of how things were in a...
by Admin | Aug 8, 2011 | LB's Afterthoughts, Reviews
“Afterthoughts is three things. Firstly it is a collection of all the prologues & epilogues that LB has added to various stories throughout the years as they’ve received new attention. Secondly, it is a fantastic introduction to not only the unknown,...
by Admin | Aug 7, 2011 | Jill Emerson
Lawrence Block: There’s some interesting news about the price of Getting Off. Jill Emerson: Ah, the high cost of getting off. Always a problem… LB: That’s Getting Off, with capital letters. JE: Ah, my mistake. Capital letters. I have a problem with...
by Admin | Aug 7, 2011 | LB's Afterthoughts, Reviews
I received the following IM from a prominent small-press publisher: “Larry, understand that I don’t have the @#$%ing time for this sort of nonsense, but I started reading Afterthoughts today, and found myself a quarter of a way through before I...
by Admin | Aug 7, 2011 | LB's Afterthoughts, Reviews
Block’s reminiscences are just as well-written and entertaining as his fiction, and even if you haven’t read all the books he’s talking about in this collection (I certainly haven’t, although I’ll probably get around to most of them...