Lawrence Block: 187 books
April North
Collection of Classic Erotica, #4
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2017
Danny Duncan drives his father’s Oldsmobile. It's a nice respectable family sedan, and April North is every bit as respectable as the car. Until he manages to get her into the back seat. Now she's no longer a good girl, but only Danny know it, and he can keep a secret, can’t he?
Well, no....
Carla
Collection of Classic Erotica, #5
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2017
Well, here’s what the blurb for the audiobook says: “Carla is a beautiful girl. She was plucked from the obscurity of a Polish slum to be the wife of a wealthy man—a man who seemingly gives her everything a wife could want. Except the one thing that she needs most: the pleasure she burns for...
69 Barrow Street
Collection of Classic Erotica, #18
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2018
While my first visit to New York was a breathless weekend visit with my father in 1948, it wasn't until the summer of 1956 that I actually lived in the city. I'd completed my first year at Antioch College and was to spend August through October in the mailroom at Pines Publications on East 40th Street....
Four Lives at the Crossroads
Collection of Classic Erotica, #19
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017
FOUR LIVES AT THE CROSSROADS is the latest addition to the Collection of Classic Erotica. But it came very close to being shoehorned instead into the Classic Crime Library.
Back in the late 1950s and early 60s, when I was finding myself as a writer and producing a great quantity of books under...
by Lawrence Block
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2018
"This is either the funniest dirty book or the dirtiest funny book ever written!" —Isaac Asimov
Somewhere around 1969 I began to grow dissatisfied with the underlying principle of most novels---that a disembodied voice was telling us a story. I liked the idea of novels passing...
Kept
Collection of Classic Erotica, #14
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2018
KEPT.
So you're unemployed, fresh off a construction crew in Albany, and standing on a Thruway ramp trying to thumb a ride, and a babe in a Cadillac convertible stops for you. Hey, these things happen.
They never happened to me, but never mind. For you it's different. You're Mark Taggert...
The Twisted Ones
Collection of Classic Erotica, #15
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2018
You might be surprised to learn that back in 1961 Nightstand Books published an inquiry into the heartbreak of scoliosis, but—oh, hang on a minute. You say the title refers to characters who are not spinally but psychosexually bent? Oh. Well, never mind.
Dave and Nancy Grantland look for...
by Lawrence Block
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
In the fall of 1976 I moved back to New York after a brief stretch in L.A. I got a small apartment on Bleecker and Sullivan, in Greenwich Village; my ex-wife and kids lived at Houston and Sixth, just a stone’s throw away if you were a major league right fielder. My daughter Alison had just turned...
Threesome
The Jill Emerson Novels, #5
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2016
Jill Emerson, whose first three works were gentle explorations of the lesbian experience, took a sharp turn toward candor in THIRTY, her first book for Berkley. As I’ve explained in the book description for that novel, around the time Berkley came calling (via my agent) I’d become disenchanted...
by Lawrence Block
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2013
Meet the girls who fly the friendly skies:
Ali: "All men seem to think that if they've had sex with a girl once they can have her any time they want. They're wrong."
Beri: "I know a librarian who makes me feel positively sheltered and stews who've spent years in the air without...
Have a NYC 3
New York Short Stories
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2014
Welcome to New York City. A place where stories lurk around every corner and linger in the hearts of the millions in these five boroughs. In these pages, tales of the underbelly of modern-day New York City hook-up with hilarious and poignant stories of love and loss in this annual collection of thrilling...
A Week as Andrea Benstock
The Jill Emerson Novels
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2016
I can trace the origin of A Week as Andrea Benstock to two distinct sources. The first inspired my attempting the book, while the second inspired its form.
Let me consider the second first. In 1949, the Belgian author Georges Simenon published a novel called Four Days in a Lifetime. All I remember...
The Trouble With Eden
The Jill Emerson Novels
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2016
In early 1969, I moved with my wife and daughters to an 18th century farmhouse on twelve rolling acres a mile east of the Delaware River. We kept a variety of animals and grew things in the garden, and this was as I’d expected. But there were two things I did not anticipate. One was that I would...
Campus Tramp
Collection of Classic Erotica, #7
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2018
There's a song they used to sing at Antioch College, and it went something like this:
"She was just a little freshman Victim of Admission's whim Then she met an upperclassman—we won't name him— And she had a child by him. "Now he's off in New York City Rescued by the co-op plan...