by LB | Mar 17, 2023 | Matthew Scudder, Newsletter
I suppose you’re referring to Daylight Savings Time. I am, and its return always sparks joy, although I’d be hard-pressed to tell you why. It seems to promise extra hours, but I’ve never been able to find more than the usual twenty-four in a day. And even those hours...
by LB | Mar 1, 2023 | Books
There’s been a fair amount of media attention paid lately to the decisions of the estates of both Roald Dahl and Ian Fleming to make extensive edits to their respective bodies of work with an eye toward improving passages that might strike a contemporary reader...
by LB | Feb 2, 2023 | Books
LB’s Groundhog Day Newsletter— WHERE’D YOU GO, JANUARY??? You know, the year’s first month did hurry by. It’s hard to believe it’s a new month already, and one that’s shorter than January by three days, so it’ll be gone in nothing flat, and—I guess I’m getting ahead...
by LB | Jan 5, 2023 | Dead Girl Blues, LB's Classic Crime Library, Newsletter, Playing Games, Random Walk, The Girl With the Deep Blue Eyes
David Trevor here, charged with composing LB’s first newsletter of 2023, and I may have made a mistake already in that header. I’ll leave it and hope it looks intentional, like those carpet weavers. Because only LB is perfect, right? And it’s not like I ...
by LB | Dec 21, 2022 | Bernie Rhodenbarr, Matthew Scudder, Newsletter
O Frabjous Day! Callooh! Callay! Well, hello there! It’s my great pleasure to wish all of y’all… The joys of the season, right? Hanukkah’s underway and Christmas is waiting in the wings, with a brand-new year trailing it by just a week. So what have you got for us,...
by LB | Nov 12, 2022 | Bernie Rhodenbarr, Matthew Scudder, Newsletter
Yeah, I’ll bet. “The Burglar Who Met Fredric Brown” is out, and the reviewers can’t contain their enthusiasm, and the book’s flying off the virtual shelves, and blah blah blah. And that’s your headline? Some surprising news indeed. The real surprise is you didn’t...
by LB | Oct 14, 2022 | Bernie Rhodenbarr, Newsletter, Playing Games
There’s a Burglar Coming ! Hi there. I’ve a few things to tell you, and no end of other things I ought to be doing, so why don’t we Get Right To It. (And, to lend this missive the illusion of order and structure, I’ll number the items.) 1. The Burglar Who Met...
by LB | Sep 27, 2022 | Books
On September 4, some 23 days ago as I write this, Peter Straub died. He was a good friend for thirty years or more, and I felt the loss deeply, along with regret that we’d largely lost touch in recent years. In the wake of his death, a Talkwalker email alert steered...
by LB | Aug 24, 2022 | Bernie Rhodenbarr
Don’t tell you what? That it’s been over two months since you sent out a newsletter? You had to say it, didn’t you? Well, somebody ought to. You’ve got a new book coming out, the so-long-awaited-that-people-gave-up-and-stopped-waiting return of Bernie Rhodenbarr, and...
by LB | Aug 16, 2022 | Books
Note: I couldn’t tell you what I was thinking when I agreed to a session with the chap who calls himself the Impertinent Interviewer, but I knew the result would be prominently posted in Janet Rudolph’s Mystery Fanfare site, so it seemed worth the effort....
