by LB | Jun 19, 2013 | Anthologies, Bernie Rhodenbarr, For Writers, Keller, Newsletter, Short Stories
Here’s a newsletter that went out earlier today to subscribers: Oh dear. Just the other day I got an email from a fellow who wanted to be restored to the newsletter list. I checked, and he was never off it. But it’s been so long between installments that I...
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 24, 2013 | Audiobooks, Catch and Release, Matthew Scudder, Newsletter
This newsletter just went out to subscribers. The border, alas, does not appear here in the blog. Think autumn leaves: I’m not sure the border works. I was going for orange, and this comes close, but it’s spring in New York—finally!—and the template...
by LB | Feb 24, 2013 | Keller, Reviews
“Keller is a cold-blooded killer with no redeeming qualities whatsoever to make him worth reading about.” Someone felt the need to post that on my Facebook page. Fortunately some reviewers have had nicer things to say— Margaret Cannon, in the Toronto Globe...
by LB | Feb 12, 2013 | Interviews + Guest Blogs, Keller
What do I do, just talk? And you’ll write down what I say? All right, just give me a minute to gather my thoughts. Well, hello. I’d like to begin by wishing a happy birthday to Abraham Lincoln, and a successful publication day to my son, Lawrence Block....
by Admin | Jan 24, 2013 | Books, Keller, Newsletter
Ah, hello there, and Happy New Year. I suspect most of you know that there’s a new Keller novel coming out next month, the fifth to feature the philatelic assassin. Some of you no doubt read the extract that ran in American Stamp Dealer & Collector. And many...
