CRIME Pays!

by | Aug 14, 2015 | Newsletter, The Crime of Our Lives

Erin here, posting LB’s newsletter sent from somewhere in the North Atlantic. He didn’t have time to insert hyperlinks, so I’ve added them. The Crime of Our Lives, that is—my collected articles, essays, introductions and reminiscences, born of...

The Crime Lady on TCOOL

by | Jul 8, 2015 | Reviews, The Crime of Our Lives

Sarah Weinman had some lovely things to say about THE CRIME OF OUR LIVES in The Crime Lady. That I’m recommending this book should not surprise, because here, as in so much of his work, is this innate engaging quality that all born storytellers have. But it is...

TCOOL in The Washington Post

by | Jul 3, 2015 | News, The Crime of Our Lives

In The Washington Post, Michael Dirda says of THE CRIME OF OUR LIVES: Since Block possesses an almost preternaturally engaging voice on the page, these pieces make for ideal hammock or beach-blanket reading. Click here to read the article

Sweet praise for TCOOL

by | Jul 2, 2015 | The Crime of Our Lives

Terry Zobeck is a participant in a Yahoo members-only newsgroup centering on magazine fiction, and a devoted reader and collector with particular expertise on Dashiell Hammett. Recently, and with some reticence as I don’t see the group as a proper vehicle for...

David Trevor Reporting—

by | Jun 22, 2015 | Midcentury Erotica, The Crime of Our Lives

~David Trevor here, reporting from LB’s eBay Bookstore. I just spent a couple of hours uploading new listings, and LB says tell everybody what you’ve got to tell them and then you can go home. Well okay. This afternoon I took a big box of galleys and...