Beyond Roald Dahl and Ian Fleming…

There’s been a fair amount of media attention paid lately to the decisions of the estates of both Roald Dahl and Ian Fleming to make extensive edits to their respective bodies of work with an eye toward improving passages that might strike a contemporary reader...

Where’d You Go, January???

LB’s Groundhog Day Newsletter— WHERE’D YOU GO, JANUARY??? You know, the year’s first month did hurry by. It’s hard to believe it’s a new month already, and one that’s shorter than January by three days, so it’ll be gone in nothing flat, and—I guess I’m getting ahead...

LB’s New Year’s Newsletter

O Frabjous Day! Callooh! Callay! Well, hello there! It’s my great pleasure to wish all of y’all… The joys of the season, right? Hanukkah’s underway and Christmas is waiting in the wings, with a brand-new year trailing it by just a week. So what have you got for us,...

SOME SURPRISING NEWS…

 Yeah, I’ll bet. “The Burglar Who Met Fredric Brown” is out, and the reviewers can’t contain their enthusiasm, and the book’s flying off the virtual shelves, and blah blah blah. And that’s your headline? Some surprising news indeed. The real surprise is you didn’t...