by LB | Nov 9, 2013 | Store
How’s this for somebody’s Christmas? It’s the souvenir sheet LB prepared as an accompaniment for the Philatelic Edition of Hit Me. (Which sold out in a hurry, by the way; I just saw a copy on eBay for $250, a hefty advance over our original price of...
by LB | Nov 7, 2013 | About, Commentary
So I left the house early this morning to catch the Magritte show at the Museum of Modern Art—as if it’s insufficiently surrealistic around here, as I tweeted before departing. I’m glad I went, the man combined great painterly ability with a unique...
by LB | Nov 6, 2013 | News, Newsletter, Short Stories, Store, The Burglar Who Counted the Spoons
If you just tuned in, you may wonder what the hell I’m talking about. It was not quite a year ago, in the wake of a couple of November marketing campaigns called Black Friday and Cyber Monday, that I tried a bit of counter-programming, proclaimed it to be Orange...
by LB | Nov 4, 2013 | Non-Series Novels, Reviews
It’s nice when a book gets a nice review fifty-some years after I wrote it. (At the time, when it’s publisher was Beacon Books, a true bottom-feeder, and the title was Pads Are For Passion, no one took any notice of it. Now, with Hard Case behind it and...
by LB | Nov 4, 2013 | Keller
I get the nicest emails from readers. Here’s what Nathaniel wrote: It was the fall of 1999, and I was caring for my dying 100-year-old grandfather. I didn’t get out much because of that, but when I did I was sometimes dating a woman who also...
