by Admin | Apr 18, 2012 | Jill Emerson, Reviews
by Elizabeth A. White “She felt at home here, but she had the knack of feeling at home just about anywhere. And a girl didn’t want to overstay her welcome. – Kit Tolliver “There’s a reason author Lawrence Block has received countless awards for his writing...
by LB | Apr 15, 2012 | Chip Harrison, Commentary, News
Not long after Bob Parker’s untimely death, Otto Penzler invited me to contribute to a Festschrift in his honor. (That’s a German word, and it means a sort of tribute album in the form of critical essays.) It was not a request I felt I could deny, and I...
by LB | Apr 7, 2012 | Bernie Rhodenbarr
In 1977, Bernie Rhodenbarr made his debut in Burglar’s Can’t Be Choosers. In 1995, he had his seventh appearance in The Burglar Who Thought He Was Bogart. And eight years later, in late 2003, a woman in O’Fallon, Illinois, bought the original...
by LB | Apr 5, 2012 | For Writers
Recently, to give you all a taste of one of the new books for writers I ePublished in 2011, I posted a Writer’s Digest column of mine (“Writing, Always Writing”) from The Liar’s Companion. Enough of you responded enthusiastically to prompt me...
by LB | Mar 26, 2012 | For Writers
In 1976 I began a monthly instructional column on fiction writing for Writers Digest, and kept at it for fourteen years. Two books, Telling Lies for Fun & Profit and Spider, Spin Me a Web, grew out of that job, and they’re both still in print many years and...
by LB | Mar 24, 2012 | Commentary, For Writers
Sometime next month I’ll sit down with The Cocktail Waitress, an unpublished novel by James M. Cain. Hard Case Crime’s Charles Ardai, who’s published many worthy novels (not a few of them mine), unearthed Cain’s manuscript, edited it with his...
by LB | Mar 20, 2012 | Commentary, For Writers
At the invitation of the indispensable John Kenyon, I wrote a piece on narrative experimentation for Grift Magazine, the landmark first issue of which has just appeared. Here’s a taste of my contribution: Sometime in the late 1960s I began to feel uneasy about...
by LB | Mar 13, 2012 | Commentary, Matthew Scudder
Not long ago I reacquired the print and electronic rights to three Matthew Scudder novels that had gone out of print. With the capable assistance of my friends at Telemachus Press, I’ve brought them out as eBooks, and over the past several weeks they’ve...
by LB | Mar 9, 2012 | Commentary, Keller, Matthew Scudder
It’s been a while since I’ve posted, but not for lack of interest in communicating with y’all. My cherished companion and I have just returned from a small-ship cruise of the Indian Ocean, from Mauritius to Zanzibar, tarrying along the way in...
by LB | Feb 16, 2012 | Matthew Scudder
It’s been some time now since three of the Matthew Scudder titles went out of print. I got the rights back, and am very happy to announce that A Stab in the Dark, A Walk Among the Tombstones, and A Long Line of Dead Men are now eVailable, expertly formatted for...
