by LB | Mar 26, 2012 | For Writers
In 1976 I began a monthly instructional column on fiction writing for Writers Digest, and kept at it for fourteen years. Two books, Telling Lies for Fun & Profit and Spider, Spin Me a Web, grew out of that job, and they’re both still in print many years and...
by LB | Mar 24, 2012 | Commentary, For Writers
Sometime next month I’ll sit down with The Cocktail Waitress, an unpublished novel by James M. Cain. Hard Case Crime’s Charles Ardai, who’s published many worthy novels (not a few of them mine), unearthed Cain’s manuscript, edited it with his...
by LB | Mar 20, 2012 | Commentary, For Writers
At the invitation of the indispensable John Kenyon, I wrote a piece on narrative experimentation for Grift Magazine, the landmark first issue of which has just appeared. Here’s a taste of my contribution: Sometime in the late 1960s I began to feel uneasy about...
by LB | Mar 13, 2012 | Commentary, Matthew Scudder
Not long ago I reacquired the print and electronic rights to three Matthew Scudder novels that had gone out of print. With the capable assistance of my friends at Telemachus Press, I’ve brought them out as eBooks, and over the past several weeks they’ve...
by LB | Mar 9, 2012 | Commentary, Keller, Matthew Scudder
It’s been a while since I’ve posted, but not for lack of interest in communicating with y’all. My cherished companion and I have just returned from a small-ship cruise of the Indian Ocean, from Mauritius to Zanzibar, tarrying along the way in...
