A Conversation with A WALK AMONG THE TOMBSTONES Writer/Director Scott Frank
Over at Screenwriter’s Utopia, Scott Frank talked at length about writing and directing A WALK AMONG THE TOMBSTONES. It’s a fascinating Q&A! Click here to read the interview
View ArticleLB on NPR’s Morning Edition
As part of their “Crime in the City” series, LB talks to NPR Morning Edition’s Neda Ulaby about New York, Matthew Scudder, and Jill Emerson.
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A WALK AMONG THE TOMBSTONES in Empire Magazine
In advance of the movie’s release on September 19, 2014, Empire has a terrific feature, which includes an exclusive behind-the-scenes set report. Click here to read and/or download the article
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Empire Magazine Reviews A Walk Among the Tombstones
As LB mentioned in the previous post, Empire Magazine, the premier film magazine in the UK, loves A Walk Among the Tombstones! Here is Dan Jolin’s review in its entirety: Liam Neeson has said that...
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Michael Weinreb on grantland.com
Grantland.com, largely a sports-oriented site named after the legendary sportswriter Grantland Rice, is a house containing many mansions. Just yesterday I taped an hour-long podcast with screenwriter...
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Caution: DETOUR Ahead…
Mike Dennis, who did a remarkable job of voicing the audiobook of my own early novel, Borderline, discovered this great noir classic in the public domain. He decided to narrate an audio version, and...
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Evan Tanner in the World
Evan Tanner, the first series character created by LB, is now eVailable to readers around the world! Ever since a shred of shrapnel did a number on his brain’s sleep center, Evan Tanner has been awake...
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Hard Case Crime to Publish THE GIRL WITH THE DEEP BLUE EYES
New York, NY; London, UK (January 27, 2015) – Lawrence Block, the acclaimed author of more than 100 novels including A WALK AMONG THE TOMBSTONES (recently adapted as a feature film starring Liam...
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Crimefest Awards
THE BURGLAR WHO COUNTED THE SPOONS has been nominated for two awards at Crimefest in Bristol, England! Everyone’s favo(u)rite burglar is on the longlist (and in exceptional company) for both the...
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Crimefest Shortlist
The shortlists have been announced for the eDunnit Award (for the best crime fiction ebook) and the Goldsboro Last Laugh Award (for the best humorous crime novel) at Crimefest in Bristol, England, and...
View ArticleTCOOL in The Washington Post
In The Washington Post, Michael Dirda says of THE CRIME OF OUR LIVES: Since Block possesses an almost preternaturally engaging voice on the page, these pieces make for ideal hammock or beach-blanket...
View Article“The Story Behind Hard Case Crime Books”
In this article, Hard Case Crime editor Charles Ardai talks about THE GIRL WITH THE DEEP BLUE EYES, as well as the other LB titles they’ve published. Larry’s plots are ingenious and marvelous and I...
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Coincidence? I don’t think so.
You don’t have to believe in coincidence to be struck by the way things tend to coincide. I’ve been busy these days, working on an expanded and updated edition of Writing the Novel from Plot to Print....
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Staying up late with Evan Tanner
The other day, my Talkwalker alert let me know that the third Evan Tanner novel, Tanner’s Twelve Swingers, had been reviewed online. Now it’s true that the book, like its seven companions, is very...
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Stop me before I write more!
Back in October, on the train heading home to New York from Raleigh Bouchercon, I got an idea for a short story. Now it had probably been percolating for a long time, because I can trace its origins to...
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Dept. of Last Chances…
Back in the day, there was an advertisement that appeared in no end of magazines, sometimes as a classified, sometimes as a small-space ad. It read like this: LAST CHANCE TO SEND YOUR DOLLAR TO PO BOX...
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Lesen Sie Deutsch?
Haben Sie Deutsch lesen? If Google Translator is to be trusted (and, like a broken clock, it’s right at least twice a day) I’ve just asked you if you read German. If so, I’ve got an announcement to...
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FREE—today only!
On Monday I sent out a newsletter announcing that the first Kit Tolliver story, “If You Can’t Stand the Heat,” was free on all Amazon platforms worldwide. A comforting number of you hastened to...
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Flash! (Like, seriously…)
Aren’t they pretty? That’s the LB logo on the cap, and nothing else to clutter it up—no web address, no catchy slogan, no sales pitch. And pretty’s the least of it. What a supremely useful gadget!...
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Put the pedal to the metal—and RESUME SPEED!
I know, you just heard from me a few days ago, right? Last thing I want to do is clutter your mailbox. But I don’t want y’all to miss this. You may recall I’ve mentioned a novella I wrote immediately...
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