by Admin | Jun 24, 2019 | Anthologies, Books, Matthew Scudder, News + Events, Newsletter
Earlier this week, I told you all about the indefatigable Anthony Trollope, and how he filled whole library shelves by writing 250 words a day, day in and day out. I remember. As did I, but what I remembered turned out to be wrong. Which is to say that I stand...
by LB | Jun 22, 2019 | Anthologies, At Home in the Dark
My foreword to At Home in the Dark has been getting some attention, and I thought some of you might enjoy having a look at it. And if it should induce you to order the anthology, well, so much the better! IT’S GETTING DARK IN HERE Ages ago, Lucille Ball had this...
by Admin | Jun 20, 2019 | Anthologies, Audiobooks, Books, News + Events, Newsletter
Sometime last year I started writing a new piece of fiction. It was very dark, very nasty, and more than a little disturbing, and when I was about 15,000 words into it, I found I didn’t want to write any more of it. While I wasn’t yet ready to toss it, I...
by LB | May 16, 2019 | Anthologies, Audiobooks, Books, Matthew Scudder
While you and I have lips and voices which are for kissing and to sing with who cares if some oneeyed son of a bitch invents an instrument to measure Spring with? Is that a serious question? It was my introduction to E. E. Cummings. in 1954 I was killing time in my...
by LB | Mar 23, 2019 | Anthologies, At Home in the Dark, Books
Warren Moore III is an academic, although the photo might fool you. A professor of English literature at South Carolina’s Newberry College, he’s a medievalist and a great fan of Samuel Johnson. I don’t know how many of Dr.Johnson’s enthusiasts...
by LB | Mar 22, 2019 | Books
“Duane Swierczynki’s ‘Giant’s Despair’ is a neat bit of Appalachian family drama with drugs, murder and cover-ups at the core, along with a main character who is hampered in his actions by carpal tunnel syndrome gone too long untreated – too real a...
