by LB | Apr 24, 2013 | Audiobooks, Catch and Release, Matthew Scudder, Newsletter
This newsletter just went out to subscribers. The border, alas, does not appear here in the blog. Think autumn leaves: I’m not sure the border works. I was going for orange, and this comes close, but it’s spring in New York—finally!—and the template...
by LB | Apr 8, 2013 | Commentary
Scott Turow’s op-ed piece in today’s New York Times (“The Slow Death of the American Author”), following in the wake of Hugh Howey’s offering on Salon.com (“Self-publishing is the Future—and Great for Writers”) puts me in mind...
by LB | Apr 6, 2013 | Commentary
Here’s an email that came in a few days ago from an unknown (to me) sender: Some time back while I was in Antigua, Guatemala I ran into a retired U.S. Air Force, West Point graduate who when sent to Columbia University to get his Doctorate in Economics told me...
by LB | Apr 4, 2013 | In Collaboration with Donald Westlake, John Warren Wells, Keller, Matthew Scudder
Here’s a newsletter that went out to subscribers yesterday: “LB’S NEWS OF ALL MEDIA” Well, that’s an exaggeration, isn’t it? There’s a medium or two of which I have no news to report. Skywriting, for example. T-shirts with...
by LB | Mar 26, 2013 | Keller
I’m appearing tonight on The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson, broadcast on CBS at 12:35 am Eastern, 11:35 pm Central. Himself and I will be talking about Hit Me, currently on bookstore shelves when it’s not flying off them, and also about A Walk Among...
