by Admin | Aug 4, 2011 | News, Reviews
Others, like Lawrence Block, would rather go where-ever their muse takes them, regardless of whether it makes the most commercial sense or disappoints some of their fans (I am sure there are scores of readers who wish he’d do nothing but write Scudder and...
by Admin | Aug 2, 2011 | Jill Emerson, Reviews
Mr. Block doesn’t write so much as paint. His words are so vivid I could see every single scene clear as day, so visceral I felt sick, so darkly funny I laughed out loud. Click here to read the post
by Admin | Jul 31, 2011 | Likes to Read
In 1957-8 I was working at a literary agency and writing short stories for magazines like Manhunt and Trapped and Guilty. I was reading widely in the field, for pleasure as well as education, and the New York Mercantile Library was a great source of out-of-print crime...
by Admin | Jul 29, 2011 | Likes to Read
Jalfieri’s comment tilted me toward baseball stories. I was in the process of ePubbing “Almost Perfect” and had made these observations in the online introduction to the story: “My own favorite baseball stories are all novels. Bernard...
by Admin | Jul 29, 2011 | Likes to Read
A brilliant writer who wrote too little and died too young. Much of his work is science fiction (Mockingbird, The Man Who Fell to Earth) but I’m fondest of his contemporary novels. The Queen’s Gambit is a personal favorite, and I’m about due to...
