by Admin | Jul 29, 2011 | Likes to Read
Ross was a good friend, and I miss him. I wrote about him in a piece I did for Mystery Scene, and supplied an introduction for a reissue of http://tinyurl.com/5rbvw8n, so let me only that I find his work—under his own name and as Oliver Bleeck—wonderfully entertaining...
by Admin | Jul 29, 2011 | Likes to Read
If I have a favorite writer, he’s it. I’ve re-read virtually everything of O’Hara’s, some books many times, and have never lost the feeling that he captures American lives better than anyone else. It’s fashionable to praise his short...
by Admin | Jul 29, 2011 | Likes to Read
Evan was a role model for me years before I ever heard the term. That he eventually became a good friend was a source of enormous satisfaction to me. Sometimes the intimacy of friendship can keep the fiction from working, but that certainly didn’t happen here. I...
by Admin | Jul 25, 2011 | LB's Afterthoughts, Non-Series Novels
In May, while I was out in California promoting the just-published A Drop of the Hard Stuff, I teamed up with Robert Silverberg for an onstage dialogue at a library in the Bay Area. We talked about our separate genres, crime and science fiction, but much of our talk...
by Admin | Jul 22, 2011 | Bernie Rhodenbarr, Interviews + Guest Blogs, Keller, Matthew Scudder
Russel McLean hosts LB on flaws v. inclusions at Do Some Damage Click here to read the post
by Admin | Jul 20, 2011 | LB's Afterthoughts, Non-Series Novels
DEADLY HONEYMOON It wasn’t my idea. The premise of Deadly Honeymoon, that is. It was Don Westlake’s idea, and I remember the evening he recounted it to me. My then–wife and I were at an upper flat in Brooklyn’s remote Canarsie section, where Don and his...
by Admin | Jul 20, 2011 | Keller, Reviews
Smart, witty and unabashedly take charge, Lawrence Block’s Keller is my newest crime-fiction crush. Click here to read the review
by Admin | Jul 19, 2011 | LB's Afterthoughts, Midcentury Erotica
Two months ago, I shared a stage at the Belmont CA library with Robert Silverberg, the legendary science-fiction Grand Master. While Bob and I found success in different genres, we shared a past in the overwrought field of Midcentury Erotica, and that’s what we...
by Admin | Jul 18, 2011 | Reviews
Okay, gang, if you don’t know who Lawrence Block is, let me simply say you have a lot of wonderful reading to catch up on. Click here to read the post
by Admin | Jul 18, 2011 | Interviews + Guest Blogs
Glenn Kenny hosts LB’s take on film adaptations at Some Came Running Click here to read the post
