by Admin | Apr 18, 2014 | Borderline, Non-Series Novels, Reviews
Hard Case Crime continues to resurrect Block’s early work, often written pseudonymously, from the 1950s and early ’60s. Gleefully mixing soft-core pornography with a thriller plot, Block churned out numerous of these bound-for-the-drugstore-paperback-rack quickies as...
by Admin | Apr 18, 2014 | Interviews + Guest Blogs, News + Events, Short Stories
This post includes commentary from author T.E. Grau, an interview with LB, and his short story, LIKE A BONE IN THE THROAT. To call him a giant in contemporary Noir and crime literature doesn’t seem up to snuff. In the last 55 years that Mr. Block has been...
by Admin | Apr 16, 2014 | Commentary, Interviews + Guest Blogs, Likes to Read
In this article, originally published in Mystery Scene in 2010, LB talks about Charles Willeford. In the summer of 1985, Lynne and I moved from New York to Fort Myers Beach, Florida. Well, it seemed like a good idea at the time. After we’d been there a few months, I...
by LB | Apr 8, 2014 | Newsletter
Mixing memory with desire… That’s April’s job, according to T. S. Eliot, when it’s not otherwise occupied breeding lilacs out of the dead land. He labeled it the cruelest month, although I’d say that’s a hotly contested honor, with...
by Admin | Apr 7, 2014 | Books, Matthew Scudder, News + Events, Reviews
MysteryPeople has a double-barreled review of EIGHT MILLION WAYS TO DIE and IN THE MIDST OF DEATH: In The Midst Of Death and Eight Million Ways to Die are both great examples of the jagged character arc Matthew Scudder travels in this series. Block realizes that even...
by LB | Apr 1, 2014 | Commentary
With a new season of Nurse Jackie starting soon, I thought it might be worth repeating this post. I never did get to the set, but I live in hope… On a Sunday evening a little over a month ago, my Frequent Companion and I were on our way to the Encores!...
by LB | Mar 28, 2014 | John Warren Wells
It might as well be spring, too, as Oscar Hammerstein wrote, though that’s not at all what it feels like outside. But if you’re as restless as a willow in a windstorm, or as giddy as a baby on a swing, maybe I can help. Even if it’s a couple of days...
by LB | Mar 24, 2014 | John Warren Wells
Sometime in 1969, I walked into the office of my agent, Henry Morrison, and announced that I had a million-dollar idea. “I’m going to tell you the title and the subtitle,” I said. “Tricks of the Trade: a Hooker’s Handbook of Sexual...
by LB | Mar 17, 2014 | John Warren Wells
Verde, que te quiero verde. Verde viento. Verdes ramas El barco sobre la man y el caballo en la montaña. Con la sombra en la cintura ella sueña en su baranda, verde carne, pelo verde, y ojos de fria plata… I hope you don’t mind my quoting the...
by Admin | Mar 9, 2014 | Bernie Rhodenbarr, The Burglar Who Counted the Spoons
Welcome to the fourth and final day of Berniepalooza! Today’s special price for THE BURGLAR WHO COUNTED THE SPOONS is just $5.99, good only today (March 9). Tomorrow it goes back up to the regular price, so now’s your chance to save a few bucks! Click here to...
