Lawrence Block: 119 books
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...
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...
One Last Night at Grogans's
Matthew Scudder short stories, #11
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
I began writing about Matthew Scudder in the mid-1970s. The first novel, The Sins of the Fathers, appeared in 1975, and A Drop of the Hard Stuff—the 17th and most recent—was published in 2011. Over the years Scudder has also been featured in 11 short works of fiction.
One Last Night at...
By the Dawn's Early Light
Matthew Scudder short stories, #3
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2015
I began writing about Matthew Scudder in the mid-1970s. The first novel, The Sins of the Fathers, appeared in 1975, and A Drop of the Hard Stuff—the 17th and most recent—was published in 2011. Over the years Scudder has also been featured in 11 short works of fiction; By the Dawn's Early Light,...
The Merciful Angel of Death
Matthew Scudder short stories, #5
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2015
I began writing about Matthew Scudder in the mid-1970s. The first novel, The Sins of the Fathers, appeared in 1975, and A Drop of the Hard Stuff—the 17th and most recent—was published in 2011. Over the years Scudder has also been featured in 11 short works of fiction. The Merciful Angel of Death...
Born to be Bad
Collection of Classic Erotica, #9
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2018
When I decided to reissue my early books in the Collection of Classic Erotica, I did so without realizing what I was getting myself into. I would have to read them again.
Or, as in the case of BORN TO BE BAD, I'd have to read them for the first time.
I remembered just three things about...
Of Shame and Joy
Collection of Classic Erotica, #11
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2018
O Rose thou art sick. / The invisible worm, /That flies in the night / In the howling storm: /Has found out thy bed / Of crimson joy: /And his dark secret love / Does thy life destroy.
Those eight lines constitute the complete text of "The Sick Rose," published by William Blake in...
Ein letzter Abend im Grogan’s
Matthew Scudder Kurzgeschichten, #11
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2018
Ich begann Mitte der siebziger Jahre damit, über Matthew Scudder zu schreiben. Der erste Roman, »Die Sünden der Väter«, erschien 1975, der 17. und bislang letzte Roman der Reihe, »Ein Tropfen vom harten Zeug«, wurde 2011 veröffentlicht. Im Laufe der Jahre verfasste ich auch elf Kurzgeschichten...
Different Strokes
John Warren Wells on Human Behavior
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2018
In the early 1970s, with Deep Throat and The Devil in Miss Jones rewriting film history, John Warren Wells hired on to write the script for a high-quality pornographic movie. Originally published by Dell, Different Strokes includes the remarkable script he delivered, the production diary he kept,...
by Lawrence Block
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2013
I began writing about Matthew Scudder in the mid-1970s. The first novel, The Sins of the Fathers, appeared in 1975, and A Drop of the Hard Stuff—the 17th and most recent—was published in 2011. Over the years Scudder has also been featured in 11 short works of fiction; Let's Get Lost, which...