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Don’t Ask
You’d think I’d be grateful. In 1977 I published Burglars Can’t Be Choosers, the novel that introduced one Bernard Grimes Rhodenbarr to an unsuspecting public. Over the years I was to write nine more books about Bernie, the most recent of which is The Burglar on the...
Julia Barrett on Getting Off “It Kept Me Up All Night!”
Mr. Block doesn't write so much as paint. His words are so vivid I could see every single scene clear as day, so visceral I felt sick, so darkly funny I laughed out loud. Click here to read the post
Fredric Brown
In 1957-8 I was working at a literary agency and writing short stories for magazines like Manhunt and Trapped and Guilty. I was reading widely in the field, for pleasure as well as education, and the New York Mercantile Library was a great source of out-of-print crime...
Baseball Stories
Jalfieri's comment tilted me toward baseball stories. I was in the process of ePubbing "Almost Perfect" and had made these observations in the online introduction to the story: "My own favorite baseball stories are all novels. Bernard Malamud’s The Natural is a...