by LB | Mar 26, 2012 | For Writers
In 1976 I began a monthly instructional column on fiction writing for Writers Digest, and kept at it for fourteen years. Two books, Telling Lies for Fun & Profit and Spider, Spin Me a Web, grew out of that job, and they’re both still in print many years and...
by LB | Mar 24, 2012 | Commentary, For Writers
Sometime next month I’ll sit down with The Cocktail Waitress, an unpublished novel by James M. Cain. Hard Case Crime’s Charles Ardai, who’s published many worthy novels (not a few of them mine), unearthed Cain’s manuscript, edited it with his...
by LB | Mar 20, 2012 | Commentary, For Writers
At the invitation of the indispensable John Kenyon, I wrote a piece on narrative experimentation for Grift Magazine, the landmark first issue of which has just appeared. Here’s a taste of my contribution: Sometime in the late 1960s I began to feel uneasy about...
by Admin | Aug 18, 2011 | For Writers, Interviews + Guest Blogs
Óscar Palmer interviews LB Click here to read in English Haga clic aquí para leer en español
by LB | Jul 14, 2011 | Commentary, For Writers
A couple of months ago I downloaded a 99¢ novel by John Locke. I’d become aware of him as a dominant presence on the Kindle bestseller list and figured I ought to see what all the fuss was about. I don’t remember which book it was, and I don’t see why it should...
by LB | Jul 5, 2011 | Commentary, For Writers
In the summer of 1957 I was all of 19. I got a dream job, associate editor at a literary agency, and immediately dropped out of college to keep it. The agency (Scott Meredith) was a hybrid, representing some solid professional writers while making big money as a...
