by LB | Aug 28, 2019 | For Writers, The Crime of Our Lives
As part of a Labor Day promotion, three of my books for writers are eVailable for the next couple of days for the not-too-hefty sum of 99¢ apiece. Here are the Kindle links: The Liar’s Bible: https://amzn.to/2L2RWgQ The Liar’s Companion:...
by LB | Jun 22, 2019 | Anthologies, At Home in the Dark
My foreword to At Home in the Dark has been getting some attention, and I thought some of you might enjoy having a look at it. And if it should induce you to order the anthology, well, so much the better! IT’S GETTING DARK IN HERE Ages ago, Lucille Ball had this...
by LB | May 16, 2019 | Anthologies, Audiobooks, Books, Matthew Scudder
While you and I have lips and voices which are for kissing and to sing with who cares if some oneeyed son of a bitch invents an instrument to measure Spring with? Is that a serious question? It was my introduction to E. E. Cummings. in 1954 I was killing time in my...
by LB | Mar 23, 2019 | Anthologies, At Home in the Dark, Books
Warren Moore III is an academic, although the photo might fool you. A professor of English literature at South Carolina’s Newberry College, he’s a medievalist and a great fan of Samuel Johnson. I don’t know how many of Dr.Johnson’s enthusiasts...
by LB | Mar 22, 2019 | Books
“Duane Swierczynki’s ‘Giant’s Despair’ is a neat bit of Appalachian family drama with drugs, murder and cover-ups at the core, along with a main character who is hampered in his actions by carpal tunnel syndrome gone too long untreated – too real a...