by LB | Feb 25, 2018 | Alive in Shape and Color, Anthologies, Bernie Rhodenbarr, Books, In Sunlight or in Shadow, Keller, News + Events, Newsletter, The Burglar Who Counted the Spoons
. . .and for those of you who subscribed within the past ninety days, I trust I’ve laid to rest any worries you may have had that I’d fill your mailbox to overflowing. Quite the reverse, and I apologize for the long silence. I can but hope you had a better...
by LB | Nov 21, 2017 | Random Walk
It was thirty years ago, and I was stuck for something to write. I’d already booked my first stay in an artists colony, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. I wasn’t sure what it would be like, and I didn’t know what the hell I was going to do...
by LB | Nov 10, 2017 | Alive in Shape and Color, Audiobooks, Bernie Rhodenbarr, Keller, Matthew Scudder
How did it get to be November already? Time flies, it would appear, whether or not you’re having fun. But you knew that, right? So let me trot out some items that might actually be news to you.May I suggest you take a moment to pre-order Alive in Shape and...
by Admin | Jul 30, 2017 | Books, For Writers, News + Events, Newsletter, Nonfiction
Back in mid-May, my list of Things To Do sported the word Newsletter at or near the top. And I’d have been on it like brown on rice but for another Thing To Do: Fall down. Break hip. And that’s about as much as I care to share about How I Spent My Summer...
by LB | May 4, 2017 | John Warren Wells
Lawrence Blocks Newsletter Guten Tag zusammen! Es ist schon eine Weile her seit meinem letzten deutschen Newsletter und beim Thema Übersetzungen hat sich ziemlich viel getan – weshalb ich viel zu berichten habe. Zunächst freue ich mich, verkünden zu dürfen, dass In...
by LB | Apr 21, 2017 | Alive in Shape and Color, Audiobooks, In Sunlight or in Shadow, Keller
Finally! LB’s April Newsletter… I know, I know. As the governor of North Carolina said to the governor of South Carolina, it’s a long time between newsletters. (That doesn’t sound right. I quote from memory, and memory’s an artful...
by Admin | Mar 27, 2017 | Interviews + Guest Blogs, Matthew Scudder, News + Events
LB answered some interesting questions from the German crime fiction blog Die dunklen Felle, and Christina was good enough to translate them. Click here to read the Q&A in German and English
by Admin | Mar 23, 2017 | News, News + Events
The archetype was born: men out for justice and/or revenge, pounding perpetually rainy streets in a dark American city. But isn’t he an anachronism today? “I suspect he always was,” says author Lawrence Block, who has been writing noir for 60 years. “Which is not to...
by Admin | Mar 23, 2017 | Books, In Sunlight or in Shadow, Interviews + Guest Blogs, News + Events
In this interview, LB talks about IN SUNLIGHT OR IN SHADOW When you spend half a century honing your craft, winning awards and publishing more than 100 books, your oeuvre commands the type of gravitas that can call upon nearly two dozen celebrity authors and not only...
by LB | Feb 20, 2017 | Alive in Shape and Color, Audiobooks, Bernie Rhodenbarr, In Sunlight or in Shadow, Keller, Matthew Scudder, Newsletter, Short Stories
A dozen roses? A box of chocolates? Well, not exactly… That would certainly be a nice way to mark Valentine’s Day, but I’m already several days late, and fresh out of flowers and candy. So all I can offer are my heartfelt best wishes—plus my usual...
