by Admin | Oct 11, 2014 | Audiobooks, Matthew Scudder, Reviews
On the audiobook… Narrated by Don Sobczak, who brings this dark yet optimistic and sincere attorney to life. All of the different characters are uniquely represented and show the range of this performance artist. Sobczak takes the short stories and makes them...
by LB | Oct 10, 2014 | News
Mike Dennis, who did a remarkable job of voicing the audiobook of my own early novel, Borderline, discovered this great noir classic in the public domain. He decided to narrate an audio version, and while he was at it, made plans to publish ebook and POD paperback...
by Admin | Sep 30, 2014 | Matthew Scudder, Reviews
You’ll want to see these killers brought down, and you’ll want to see Scudder do it. This is fantastic stuff, and a must for fans of gritty, realistic suspense. Click here to read the review
by LB | Sep 26, 2014 | #AWATT, Matthew Scudder
. Whew, what a week! It’s been seven days since A Walk Among the Tombstones opened in the US and the UK and indeed throughout most of the world, and the reviews keep flooding in—from the media, and also from folks who paid their own way in and have been sharing...
by LB | Sep 24, 2014 | John Warren Wells
Here’s the text of a special newsletter that just went out to subscribers in the UK and Ireland: KINDLE UNLIMITED CROSSES THE POND! You may already know this, but haven’t I made a life’s work of telling people what they already know? So let me say...
by LB | Sep 22, 2014 | #AWATT, Audio, Matthew Scudder
Have you seen it yet? Here’s the scoop— A Walk Among the Tombstones, starring Liam Neeson, written and directed by Scott Frank, and based on the tenth Matthew Scudder novel, opened Friday, September 19, throughout the US and UK and most of the world. (But some...
by LB | Sep 19, 2014 | #AWATT, Matthew Scudder
This from Language Log, a University of Pennsylvania site: Matched guise among the tombstones September 19, 2014 @ 6:34 am · Filed by Mark Liberman under Language and culture Lawrence Block’s 1992 novel A Walk Among the Tombstones has been made into a...
by Admin | Sep 17, 2014 | Evan Tanner, Reviews
I’m a sucker for a good hero. I don’t mean the carbon copy type that can do no wrong. I like heroes with flaws, and those who’ve grown and learned from their mistakes. I especially like heroes, protagonists if you will, who do not fit the typical literary mold. Block...
by Admin | Sep 17, 2014 | Interviews + Guest Blogs, News + Events
In this interview Block also shares insights into the craft of writing as well as his experiences (numerous adaptations based on his work) with Hollywood including a few stabs he took as a screenwriter. Click here to read the interview
by LB | Sep 17, 2014 | Matthew Scudder
This blog post, by UK writer EJ Knight of the Allonym Books Collective, is such a thoughtful and perceptive take on Matthew Scudder’s New York that I wanted to share it with y’all. It seems especially apt today, with the opening of A Walk Among the...