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 | 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Sometime next month I’ll sit down with The Cocktail Waitress, an unpublished novel by James M. Cain.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 | Dec 18, 2011 | Commentary, Evan Tanner
Vaclav Havel, the writer and dissident whose eloquent dissections of Communist rule helped to destroy it in revolutions that brought down the Berlin Wall and swept Havel himself into power, died on Sunday. He was 75. When I read this in the New York Times this...
