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#WritersCoffeeClub Nov 3: What's the best money you ever spent as a writer?

For instruction, TELLING LIES FOR FUN AND PROFIT by #LawrenceBlock. For inspiration, WILD GRATITUDE by #EdwardHirsch.

#Poetry #Fiction

The Naked and the Deadly: Lawrence Block in Men's Adventure Magazines is a superb collection. For me the highlights are the three Ed London PI stories and the two Evan Tanner tales. So much pulp fun here. Early Lawrence Block is always a treat.

My review: https://vintagepopfictions.blogspot.com/2024/07/the-naked-and-deadly-lawrence-block-in.html

#vintagethrillers #vintagethriller #vintagemystery #vintagemysteries #noir #noirfiction #crimefiction #hardboiledcrime hardboiledfiction #hardboiled #pulpfiction #LawrenceBlock #mensadventure

The Naked and the Deadly: Lawrence Block in Men's Adventure Magazines is a superb collection. For me the highlights are the three Ed London PI stories and the two Evan Tanner tales. So much pulp fun here. Early Lawrence Block is always a treat.

My review: https://vintagepopfictions.blogspot.com/2024/07/the-naked-and-deadly-lawrence-block-in.html

#vintagethrillers #vintagethriller #vintagemystery #vintagemysteries #noir #noirfiction #crimefiction #hardboiledcrime hardboiledfiction #hardboiled #pulpfiction #LawrenceBlock #mensadventure

The Naked and the Deadly: Lawrence Block in Men's Adventure Magazines is a superb collection. For me the highlights are the three Ed London PI stories and the two Evan Tanner tales. So much pulp fun here. Early Lawrence Block is always a treat.

My review: https://vintagepopfictions.blogspot.com/2024/07/the-naked-and-deadly-lawrence-block-in.html

#vintagethrillers #vintagethriller #vintagemystery #vintagemysteries #noir #noirfiction #crimefiction #hardboiledcrime hardboiledfiction #hardboiled #pulpfiction #LawrenceBlock #mensadventure

The Naked and the Deadly: Lawrence Block in Men's Adventure Magazines is a superb collection. For me the highlights are the three Ed London PI stories and the two Evan Tanner tales. So much pulp fun here. Early Lawrence Block is always a treat.

My review: https://vintagepopfictions.blogspot.com/2024/07/the-naked-and-deadly-lawrence-block-in.html

#vintagethrillers #vintagethriller #vintagemystery #vintagemysteries #noir #noirfiction #crimefiction #hardboiledcrime hardboiledfiction #hardboiled #pulpfiction #LawrenceBlock #mensadventure

The Naked and the Deadly: Lawrence Block in Men's Adventure Magazines is a superb collection. For me the highlights are the three Ed London PI stories and the two Evan Tanner tales. So much pulp fun here. Early Lawrence Block is always a treat.

My review: https://vintagepopfictions.blogspot.com/2024/07/the-naked-and-deadly-lawrence-block-in.html

#vintagethrillers #vintagethriller #vintagemystery #vintagemysteries #noir #noirfiction #crimefiction #hardboiledcrime hardboiledfiction #hardboiled #pulpfiction #LawrenceBlock #mensadventure

#LawrenceBlock makes the point that novels require one idea per book whereas short story writers are expected to publish many more stories per year, each w/ a fresh premise. Similar for poets. Who would buy a poetry book where too many of the poems read the same?

#WritersCoffeeClub Mar. 12

Lawrence Block's Campus Tramp, one of his early sleaze novels written 1959 under the name Andrew Shaw. When love goes wrong a college girl devotes her life to sleeping around. Not a great book but intriguing when you read between the lines.

My review: https://vintagepopfictions.blogspot.com/2024/01/lawrence-blocks-campus-tramp.html

#LawrenceBlock #AndrewShaw #VintageSleaze #sleazefiction #pulpfiction

I read 37 crime novels in 2023. The highlight was Lawrence Block’s The Girl with the Long Green Heart from 1965. I just love novels about con-artists. And this is a great one.

My review: https://vintagepopfictions.blogspot.com/2023/10/lawrence-blocks-girl-with-long-green.html

#noir #noirfiction #LawrenceBlock #vintagecrime

#WritersCoffeeClub Dec. 28 — What are your thoughts on using real brand names in your writing?

I'm fine w/ it. It helps bring characters into a specific place and time. #IanFleming used real brands. #RobertBParker did. OTOH, it's also fine to invent brands as #LawrenceBlock does. However, if there's no purpose using a brand name, it's not necessary.

I used a real type of jeep in my story "Fred" b/c I wanted readers to have a real point of reference:

https://www.mysterytribune.com/fred-private-eye-flash-fiction-by-gerald-so/

#WritersCoffeeClub Dec. 28 — What are your thoughts on using real brand names in your writing?

I'm fine w/ it. It helps bring characters into a specific place and time. #IanFleming used real brands. #RobertBParker did. OTOH, it's also fine to invent brands as #LawrenceBlock does. However, if there's no purpose using a brand name, it's not necessary.

I used a real type of jeep in my story "Fred" b/c I wanted readers to have a real point of reference:

https://www.mysterytribune.com/fred-private-eye-flash-fiction-by-gerald-so/

#WritersCoffeeClub Dec. 28 — What are your thoughts on using real brand names in your writing?

I'm fine w/ it. It helps bring characters into a specific place and time. #IanFleming used real brands. #RobertBParker did. OTOH, it's also fine to invent brands as #LawrenceBlock does. However, if there's no purpose using a brand name, it's not necessary.

I used a real type of jeep in my story "Fred" b/c I wanted readers to have a real point of reference:

https://www.mysterytribune.com/fred-private-eye-flash-fiction-by-gerald-so/

A Diet of Treacle (AKA Pads Are for Passion) by Lawrence Block writing as Sheldon Lord was marketed as sleaze but is really beatnik noir. A very dark look at beatnik subculture, with three beatnik losers on the run. Offbeat but intriguing.

My review: https://vintagepopfictions.blogspot.com/2023/11/lawrence-blocks-diet-of-treacle-pads.html

#LawrenceBlock #SheldonLord #noir #noirfiction #beatniks #vintagesleaze #sleazefiction

Lawrence Block’s 1965 crime novel The Girl with the Long Green Heart is about a con and I’m inordinately fond of that crime sub-genre. Block describes the grift in great detail and it’s a delight to read. Very noir and wildly enjoyable.

My review: https://vintagepopfictions.blogspot.com/2023/10/lawrence-blocks-girl-with-long-green.html

#hardboiled #hardboiledfiction #noir #noirfiction #crimefiction #LawrenceBlock

Latest read, I Know How to Pick 'Em (2013) by Lawrence Block from Dangerous Women 1.
An extreme noir (Her fingernails were medium-long, their polish the bright color of arterial bleeding) about a femme fatale's plans, to be rid of her husband, going very awry.
Entertaining & evil.

#Books #ShortStory #Noir #CrimeFiction #LawrenceBlock

Born To Be Bad (1959), one of the many sleaze novels Lawrence Block wrote under the name Sheldon Lord, before he established himself as a major crime writer.

A slightly noirish melodrama that deals with human relationships in an honest and grown-up way. With an intriguing complex heroine.

My review: https://vintagepopfictions.blogspot.com/2023/02/lawrence-blocks-born-to-be-bad.html

#LawrenceBlock #sleaze #sleazefiction #noirfiction #Noir #pulpfiction #pulp #SheldonLord #trashfiction

A new #FilmsTRIPS is out! This time, Andrew and I take a look at director #HalAshby's final film, #8MillionWaysToDie: https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/24panelspersecond/episodes/2023-01-24T13_52_17-08_00 #JeffBridges #RosannaArquette #RandyBrooks #AndyGarcia #LawrenceBlock #OliverStone

A new #FilmsTRIPS is out! This time, Andrew and I take a look at director #HalAshby's final film, #8MillionWaysToDie: https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/24panelspersecond/episodes/2023-01-24T13_52_17-08_00 #JeffBridges #RosannaArquette #RandyBrooks #AndyGarcia #LawrenceBlock #OliverStone

A new #FilmsTRIPS is out! This time, Andrew and I take a look at director #HalAshby's final film, #8MillionWaysToDie: https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/24panelspersecond/episodes/2023-01-24T13_52_17-08_00 #JeffBridges #RosannaArquette #RandyBrooks #AndyGarcia #LawrenceBlock #OliverStone

A new #FilmsTRIPS is out! This time, Andrew and I take a look at director #HalAshby's final film, #8MillionWaysToDie: https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/24panelspersecond/episodes/2023-01-24T13_52_17-08_00 #JeffBridges #RosannaArquette #RandyBrooks #AndyGarcia #LawrenceBlock #OliverStone

A new #FilmsTRIPS is out! This time, Andrew and I take a look at director #HalAshby's final film, #8MillionWaysToDie: https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/24panelspersecond/episodes/2023-01-24T13_52_17-08_00 #JeffBridges #RosannaArquette #RandyBrooks #AndyGarcia #LawrenceBlock #OliverStone

Borderline (AKA Border Lust) is an early (1962) Lawrence Block crime novel.

It's either a sleaze novel with significant noir overtones or a noir novel with significant sleaze overtones.

The border is the US-Mexico border, but also the border between sanity and madness, between self-control and debauchery, between order and chaos.

Good, but very nihilistic.

My review: https://vintagepopfictions.blogspot.com/2021/04/lawrence-blocks-borderline.html

#LawrenceBlock #noirfiction #hardboiledfiction #crimefiction #sleazefiction #serialkillers