by LB | May 8, 2012 | Short Stories
So this elderly gentleman is in the confessional, giving a richly detailed account of an affair he’s having with a twenty-two year old. Priest: Excuse me, but from your accent I get the impression that you are Jewish. Old dude: Yes, I am. So? Priest: Well, uh,...
by Admin | May 4, 2012 | In Collaboration with Donald Westlake, Likes to Read
Here’s a review I wrote for a new release by a cherished friend: First, full disclosure: Donald E. Westlake was one of my closest friends for over fifty years. Shortly after his death, I had the good fortune to play a role in Hard Case Crime’s publication...
by Admin | May 4, 2012 | In Collaboration with Donald Westlake
“If you don’t know who Lawrence Block is, page down to my previous piece. And if you don’t know who Donald E. Westlake was, get thee to a Googlery. His Parker series – written under the pseudonym Richard Stark – is as strong a collection of hard-boiled crime...
by LB | Apr 27, 2012 | Audiobooks, Bernie Rhodenbarr, Books, Chip Harrison, For Writers, Keller, Matthew Scudder, Non-Series Novels
No, of course you don’t. But what I’m getting at, albeit circuitously, is that I always thought of reading as an activity one performs with one’s eyes. I’ve since learned that doesn’t have to be the case. Plenty of us get as much or more...
by Admin | Apr 27, 2012 | Books, Matthew Scudder
In a sense, he’s never been out of print. Mulholland’s hardcover edition of A Drop of the Hard Stuff is still selling well, and their trade paperback just joined it in the stores a month ago. HarperCollins have the rights to thirteen of the Scudder backlist novels and...
by LB | Apr 22, 2012 | Bernie Rhodenbarr, For Writers, Matthew Scudder
All these things happened in the space of a week or so: 1. My friend Pat reported that the POD paperback of the book he’d co-authored with my friend Dick had gone on sale quietly at Amazon, with a score of copies sold in the first several days. (The eBook has...
