How to Enjoy July

How to Enjoy July… Not difficult at all, really. All I have to do is take a minute to recall how long it took summer to get here and it’s no great trick to rejoice in its presence. But this past week has given me more to be happy about than warm weather....

Sweet praise for TCOOL

Terry Zobeck is a participant in a Yahoo members-only newsgroup centering on magazine fiction, and a devoted reader and collector with particular expertise on Dashiell Hammett. Recently, and with some reticence as I don’t see the group as a proper vehicle for...

David Trevor Reporting—

~David Trevor here, reporting from LB’s eBay Bookstore. I just spent a couple of hours uploading new listings, and LB says tell everybody what you’ve got to tell them and then you can go home. Well okay. This afternoon I took a big box of galleys and...

Back in stock!

~David Trevor here. A week ago LB found three hardcover first edition copies of the Hard Case Crime/Subterranean Press double volume of Strange Embrace and 69 Barrow Street, two examples of what LB has come to call Midcentury Erotica. He decided he wanted to own one...

Eine nicht-so-kleine Nachtmusik, Act Two—

I published this blog post yesterday, June 18, and later discovered that most of the links went to the wrong places. This should have been easy to correct, but it wasn’t, and it took an hour and a half of diligence, ingenuity, and non-stop cursing to get the job...