by LB | Aug 13, 2011 | Anne Campbell Clarke, Books, LB's Afterthoughts
And here, without further ado, or further exclamation points, is the afterword for a book nobody ever heard of, by a pen name on one ever heard from before or since: PASSPORT TO PERIL by Lawrence Block writing as Anne Campbell Clark In 1966 I was living at 16...
by Admin | Aug 9, 2011 | LB's Afterthoughts, Reviews
“Anyone who wants to be a writer, who is thinking of being a writer, or who just likes to read how a writer thinks will want to read Lawrence Block’s new book on writing called Afterthoughts. Plus it gives a very real, very clear picture of how things were in a...
by Admin | Aug 8, 2011 | LB's Afterthoughts, Reviews
“Afterthoughts is three things. Firstly it is a collection of all the prologues & epilogues that LB has added to various stories throughout the years as they’ve received new attention. Secondly, it is a fantastic introduction to not only the unknown,...
by Admin | Aug 7, 2011 | LB's Afterthoughts, Reviews
I received the following IM from a prominent small-press publisher: “Larry, understand that I don’t have the @#$%ing time for this sort of nonsense, but I started reading Afterthoughts today, and found myself a quarter of a way through before I...
by Admin | Aug 7, 2011 | LB's Afterthoughts, Reviews
Block’s reminiscences are just as well-written and entertaining as his fiction, and even if you haven’t read all the books he’s talking about in this collection (I certainly haven’t, although I’ll probably get around to most of them...
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...
