by LB | Dec 26, 2016 | In Sunlight or in Shadow
Jonathan Santlofer was an almost inescapable choice for an anthology of stories drawn from paintings. Both visual artist and fictioneer, he delighted me with his quick agreement to contribute a story to In Sunlight or in Shadow, and delighted me even more when he...
by LB | Dec 21, 2016 | In Sunlight or in Shadow
Edward Hopper painted “New York Movie” in 1939; three-quarters of a century later, Pegasus picked it for the cover of In Sunlight or in Shadow. Joe Lansdale doesn’t specify the town in which “The Projectionist” takes place. It could be...
by LB | Dec 20, 2016 | In Sunlight or in Shadow
Jill D. Block, who by the sheerest coincidence bears the same surname as the editor of In Sunlight or in Shadow, wrote several promising short stories while in college at Clark University. She went on to a career in corporate real estate law, until an interfering...
by LB | Dec 19, 2016 | In Sunlight or in Shadow
“Pick a painting and write a story.” That, simply enough, was the assignment for writers invited to contribute to In Sunlight or in Shadow, and the relationship of story to painting was up to them. Some elected to tell the story they found implicit in...
by LB | Dec 18, 2016 | In Sunlight or in Shadow, John Warren Wells, LB's Classic Crime Library, LB's Collection of Classic Erotica, Newsletter
…and we’ll start with Room in New-York, the Edward Hopper painting that inspired Stephen King to write “The Music Room.” Lately I’ve been serving up paintings, along with 1000-word samples of the stories that arose from them (because,...
by LB | Dec 17, 2016 | In Sunlight or in Shadow
Before I wrote my own story for In Sunlight or in Shadow, I took my time poring over Hopper’s work. I looked, not for the first time, at “Automat”—and all at once a story idea came flooding in. There was only one problem. Kristine Kathryn Rusch had...
