by LB | Jun 16, 2015 | News + Events, Newsletter
That’s what my Frequent Companion and I encountered two weeks ago at the annual Rhubarb Festival in Aledo, Illinois. We also saw the Bear Tree in Bloomington and the Kokomantis in Kokomo, and posted an abundance of photos on Facebook, where you can probably...
by LB | Jun 15, 2015 | Bernie Rhodenbarr
A couple of months ago, a woman named Bianca emailed me from Germany. Could I write something around 700 words long for a New York guide book called 38 Hours? I could and I did, and they’ve just now sent me a copy of the book, with my effort printed, and with a...
by Admin | Jun 2, 2015 | Interviews + Guest Blogs, News + Events, The Crime of Our Lives
At The Life Sentence, LB talks with Levi Stahl about THE CRIME OF OUR LIVES, among other things… Click here to read the interview
by LB | May 15, 2015 | Newsletter
Y’all know the story, right? The Duke of Gloucester, patron to Edward Gibbon, upon receiving the second volume of Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire: “Another damned thick book! Always scribble, scribble, scribble! Eh, Mr. Gibbon?” I’m...
by Admin | May 12, 2015 | Anthologies, Interviews + Guest Blogs, News + Events, Short Stories
LB talked with am New York about DARK CITY LIGHTS, which it called a “gritty new noir collection.” Click here to read the interview
by Admin | May 1, 2015 | Anthologies, Reviews
Block is incapable of doing anything badly, and the 23 stories that comprise DARK CITY LIGHTS demonstrate that he brought to the selection process the same care that he brings to his own fiction. Click here to read the review
by Admin | Apr 28, 2015 | Anthologies, Books, Reviews
Reading these stories one after another induces a certain feeling of unease. This reader at least ended up concerned about where humanity might be headed if these folks are representative. The title says it all – this is a dark city indeed. Click here to read...
by Admin | Apr 28, 2015 | Anthologies, Books, Reviews
Something to consider seriously: Two of Buffalo’s best-known literary expatriates in New York City are also two of the more dedicated 21st century proponents of literary noir. They came from entirely different literary generations, too – Lawrence Block, the...
by Admin | Apr 24, 2015 | Anthologies, Interviews + Guest Blogs, News + Events
LB talked (as only LB can) with Writer Beat about DARK CITY LIGHTS… Today, Our Man in New York interviews Lawrence Block on his new anthology, Dark City Lights, to be published April 28 by Three Rooms Press… Click here to read the Q&A...
by LB | Apr 24, 2015 | Matthew Scudder
This from the incomparable Joe Queenan, in the Weekly Standard, who knows that context is everything: “While traveling in the west of England recently, I had occasion to dine in an organic restaurant just outside Cirencester. The restaurant was clean and...
