by LB | Jun 20, 2013 | Commentary, Nonfiction
As I’ve mentioned, I’ve been gathering up odds and ends of nonfiction, with a book or two in mind. I came across a foreword I’d written for East Side, West Side, Lawrence S. Ritter’s nostalgic survey of New York sporting life from 1910 to 1960....
by LB | Jun 19, 2013 | Anthologies, Bernie Rhodenbarr, For Writers, Keller, Newsletter, Short Stories
Here’s a newsletter that went out earlier today to subscribers: Oh dear. Just the other day I got an email from a fellow who wanted to be restored to the newsletter list. I checked, and he was never off it. But it’s been so long between installments that I...
by LB | Jun 18, 2013 | Commentary
On a Sunday evening a little over a month ago, my Frequent Companion and I were on our way to the Encores! production of On Your Toes. As we walked west on 56th Street, I caught sight of an eastbound woman a few yards to my left. I knew her but couldn’t place...
by LB | Jun 12, 2013 | Commentary, News
I’ve been gathering up various newspaper and magazine pieces of mine—and yes, there’ll be a book coming in due course. But my exploration of the New York Times Index now and then yields something like this, in John Maxwell Hamilton’s 1990 essay on...
by LB | Jun 11, 2013 | Bernie Rhodenbarr, Books
I know, I know. It’s been over a month since I posted anything, and those of you who’ve recently signed up to follow this blog may wonder why you ever thought that was a good idea. Look on the bright side. Have I been cluttering your mailbox? I’ve...
by Admin | May 3, 2013 | John Warren Wells
Over the years, a few booksellers and collectors have tried to locate a Dell book listed as Their Own Thing—but no one has ever seen a copy, or heard tell of one offered for sale. My friend Lynn Munroe, paperbacker extraordinaire, reports a solution to the mystery:...
by LB | Apr 24, 2013 | Audiobooks, Catch and Release, Matthew Scudder, Newsletter
This newsletter just went out to subscribers. The border, alas, does not appear here in the blog. Think autumn leaves: I’m not sure the border works. I was going for orange, and this comes close, but it’s spring in New York—finally!—and the template...
by LB | Apr 8, 2013 | Commentary
Scott Turow’s op-ed piece in today’s New York Times (“The Slow Death of the American Author”), following in the wake of Hugh Howey’s offering on Salon.com (“Self-publishing is the Future—and Great for Writers”) puts me in mind...
by LB | Apr 6, 2013 | Commentary
Here’s an email that came in a few days ago from an unknown (to me) sender: Some time back while I was in Antigua, Guatemala I ran into a retired U.S. Air Force, West Point graduate who when sent to Columbia University to get his Doctorate in Economics told me...
by LB | Apr 4, 2013 | In Collaboration with Donald Westlake, John Warren Wells, Keller, Matthew Scudder
Here’s a newsletter that went out to subscribers yesterday: “LB’S NEWS OF ALL MEDIA” Well, that’s an exaggeration, isn’t it? There’s a medium or two of which I have no news to report. Skywriting, for example. T-shirts with...
