by LB | Oct 28, 2013 | News
Even a perfectly wonderful life—like mine, for example—has moments one would just as soon not re-live. This afternoon I was in my hotel room in Los Angeles waiting for a call from Lisa Annenberg, who does the pre-show interviews for Craig Ferguson. (This is my ninth...
by Admin | Oct 16, 2013 | News
From the Department of All Things Technical: Welcome to the updated LawrenceBlock.com! We’ve given the site a bit of an update (ok, a lot of an update…a makeover, if you will), and we hope you like it. Changes you’ll see include… We’ve...
by LB | Jun 12, 2013 | Commentary, News
I’ve been gathering up various newspaper and magazine pieces of mine—and yes, there’ll be a book coming in due course. But my exploration of the New York Times Index now and then yields something like this, in John Maxwell Hamilton’s 1990 essay on...
by LB | Apr 15, 2012 | Chip Harrison, Commentary, News
Not long after Bob Parker’s untimely death, Otto Penzler invited me to contribute to a Festschrift in his honor. (That’s a German word, and it means a sort of tribute album in the form of critical essays.) It was not a request I felt I could deny, and I...
by LB | Sep 28, 2011 | Commentary, Matthew Scudder, News
Pretty, isn’t it? It’s the cover of my new book, THE NIGHT AND THE MUSIC, a complete collection of the Matthew Scudder short stories, including one brand-new one never before published anywhere. I could natter on about the book at great length and with considerable...
by Admin | Aug 4, 2011 | News, Reviews
Others, like Lawrence Block, would rather go where-ever their muse takes them, regardless of whether it makes the most commercial sense or disappoints some of their fans (I am sure there are scores of readers who wish he’d do nothing but write Scudder and...
