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Springtime for Scudder
...and a glorious season it is for the man. As I reported a couple of weeks ago, I've finished the first new book about him since A Drop of the Hard Stuff in May of 2011. (Later that same year came a short story, "One Last Night at Grogan's" in The Night and the...
If you read with your ears, you want this…
May 29, 2018—Maybe you know this, but maybe not. An Audible membership is a virtual must-have for you if you listen to a lot of audiobooks. It's $14.95 a month, and will very quickly pay for itself in savings. It's only a bad deal if you don't use it, so how do you...
A Time to Bury a Lede
Huh? I don't even know what that means. In journalism, the lede is what you start off with, because it's the most important part of the story. Thus you are well advised to lead off with it—and when you don't, you're burying the lede. So what's the lede? It'll have to...
Lawrence Blocks Mai Newsletter
Guten Tag! Ich hoffe, dass es Ihnen gut geht und Sie die Frühlingsonne genießen. Hier in New York hat der Winter damit gedroht, niemals ein Ende zu nehmen, aber mittlerweile können wir endlich unsere Anoraks und Mäntel wegpacken und den Frühling begrüßen. Die große...