by LB | Jan 8, 2015 | Matthew Scudder
This five-star review appeared this week on Goodreads: “This is the eleventh entry in Lawrence Block’s excellent Matthew Scudder series, and it remains my favorite book in the series. As the story opens, Scudder and his girlfriend, Elaine, are thrown...
by LB | Jan 7, 2015 | Newsletter, The Burglar Who Counted the Spoons
When you’re a burglar, life can be hard… …and sooner or later you’re going to need a cover that’s every bit as hard, hard enough to shield you from the slings and arrows of outraged householders. Consider Bernie Rhodenbarr, whose latest adventure gives him all sorts...
by LB | Dec 17, 2014 | Newsletter
Here’s a newsletter that went out Monday to subscribers: ‘Tis the season… …to sit around doing next to nothing, at least in our house. I should have spent the past several weeks peppering you with newsletters, reminding you of all the perfect...
by LB | Nov 13, 2014 | Newsletter
I know, I know. Believe me, I’ve been trying to quit. But you know what Solomon said, in what strikes me as the most heartfelt passage in Scripture: “Of making many books there is no end; and much study is a weariness of the flesh.” Or, as the Duke...
by LB | Nov 8, 2014 | Midcentury Erotica
Here’s an email that came in this afternoon: Dear Mr. Block, After a few pages of a pretty bad paperback novel I was reading on my train, I gave up and bought Gigolo Johnny Wells on my Kindle on a whim. I have read a lot of your books, maybe most of them and I...
