False modesty is better than no modesty at all…

The professional backwater of anthologist is ideal for an antiquated scribbler. I get to add new books to the shelves, with all the attendant ego gratification that my name on a book cover still provides me, but am spared the need to sit down and actually write...

Bookreporter on DARK CITY LIGHTS

Block is incapable of doing anything badly, and the 23 stories that comprise DARK CITY LIGHTS demonstrate that he brought to the selection process the same care that he brings to his own fiction. Click here to read the review

Reviewing the Evidence on DARK CITY LIGHTS

Reading these stories one after another induces a certain feeling of unease. This reader at least ended up concerned about where humanity might be headed if these folks are representative. The title says it all – this is a dark city indeed. Click here to read...

Buffalo News on DARK CITY LIGHTS

Something to consider seriously: Two of Buffalo’s best-known literary expatriates in New York City are also two of the more dedicated 21st century proponents of literary noir. They came from entirely different literary generations, too – Lawrence Block, the...