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Hard Case Crime continues to resurrect Block’s early work, often written pseudonymously, from the 1950s and early ’60s. Gleefully mixing soft-core pornography with a thriller plot, Block churned out numerous of these bound-for-the-drugstore-paperback-rack quickies as...
LB on Cosmicomicon
This post includes commentary from author T.E. Grau, an interview with LB, and his short story, LIKE A BONE IN THE THROAT. To call him a giant in contemporary Noir and crime literature doesn't seem up to snuff. In the last 55 years that Mr. Block has been...
LB on Charles Willeford
In this article, originally published in Mystery Scene in 2010, LB talks about Charles Willeford. In the summer of 1985, Lynne and I moved from New York to Fort Myers Beach, Florida. Well, it seemed like a good idea at the time. After we’d been there a few months, I...
Mixing memory with desire…
Mixing memory with desire... That's April's job, according to T. S. Eliot, when it's not otherwise occupied breeding lilacs out of the dead land. He labeled it the cruelest month, although I'd say that's a hotly contested honor, with eleven other strong candidates....