A COLLECTION... OF COLLECTIONS What leads one person to collect stamps and another coins, one fine art and another butterflies? Who can say? But one thing is certain: those who've got the collecting bug care passionately-sometimes violently-about the objects of their obsession. No one covets like a collector; and as you will find in the pages of this brand new anthology from MWA Grand Master Lawrence Block, a truly dedicated collector will ignore the other nine commandments, too, in his quest for his personal Holy Grail. From Joyce Carol Oates' tale of the ultimate Marilyn Monroe collectible to Dennis Lehane's bookseller with a penchant for other people's tragic correspondence, from Lee Goldberg's Hollywood hustler with a collection of unaired TV shows to Joe R. Lansdale's stylish foray into noir, culminating in Lawrence Block's own classic story of a killer with a unique approach to choosing his victims, Collectibles illustrates the range of the collecting impulse and the lengths people will go to in their hunger to possess the perfect piece.
Suppose you're Bernie Rhodenbarr.You've got a dream job, running your own cozy secondhand bookstore, complete with Raffles, your caudally challenged cat. It's in Greenwich Village, and your best friend's dog grooming salon is two doors away, and the two of you lunch together and meet for drinks after work.And you've got another way to make a buck. Every once in a while you put your conscience on the shelf and let yourself into someone else's residence, and you leave with more than you came with. You're a burglar, and you know it's wrong, but you love it.And you're good at it. You've got two ways to make a living, one larcenous, the other literary and legitimate, and you're good at both of them.Nice, huh?Until the 21st Century pulls the rug out from under you. All of a sudden the streets of your city are so overpopulated with security cameras and closed-circuit TV that you have to lock yourself in the bathroom to have an undocumented moment. And locks, which used to provide the recreational pleasure of a moderately challenging crossword puzzle, have become genuinely pickproof.Meanwhile, internet booksellers have muscled your legit enterprise into obsolescence. The new breed of customers browse your bookshop, find what they're looking for, then whip out their phones and order their books online.Wonderful. You had two ways to make a living, and neither of them works anymore.But suppose you keep on supposing, okay?Suppose you wake up one morning in a world just like the one in which you fell asleep-but with a couple of differences.The first one you notice doesn't amount to much. The Metrocard in your wallet has somehow changed color and morphed into what seems to be called a SubwayCard. That's puzzling, but you swipe it at the turnstile same as always, and it gets you on the subway, so what difference does it make?But that's not the only thing that's changed. The Internet's up and running, as robust as ever, but nobody seems to be using it to sell books. Doors are secured not with pickproof electronic gizmos but with good old reliable Rabson locks, the kind you can open with your eyes closed. And what happened to all those security cameras? Where'd they go?All of a sudden you've got your life back, and your bookshop's packed with eager customers, and how are you gonna find time to steal something?Well, just suppose one of the world's worst human beings has recently acquired one of the world's most glamorous gems. When the legendary Kloppmann Diamond is up for grabs, what can you possibly do but grab it?And what could possibly go wrong?
Since the 1970s, Lawrence Block has been writing award-winning novels and short fiction featuring Matthew Scudder. Now, with both himself and his detective half a century older, the author found himself charged with writing a book about his protagonist.And he decided he wasn't the right person for the job.LB: "What was Matt's family like? How did he spend his childhood? What steered him toward the NYPD, and how did he get all the way from the Police Academy to a detective's gold shield? Who were the influences and what were the experiences that made him the man we've come to know? These were important questions. There were certainly stories to be told, but that didn't mean I was the person to tell them. If Matt Scudder was to have a memoir, he ought to write it himself."So Block passed on the assignment to his most enduring fictional character, and the result-The Autobiography of Matthew Scudder-is a remarkable document, at once a convincing Bildungsroman and the indispensable capstone of an outstanding series.Since his 1976 debut in The Sins of the Fathers, Matthew Scudder has aged in real time; so too, remarkably enough, has his creator. Lawrence Block turned 84 on June 24, 2022, while Mr. Scudder reached that same milestone on September 7. The Autobiography of Matthew Scudder demonstrates clearly-and irresistibly-that neither one of them has lost a step.
For fourteen years, five-time Edgar winner and MWA Grand Master Lawrence Block wrote a monthly column on fiction for Writers Digest magazine. These columns yielded four books regarded as classics: Telling Lies for Fun & Profit, Spider Spin Me a Web, The Liar's Bible...and now The Liar's Companion.Here are some reviews on Goodreads: "This recently released treasure from award winning mystery author Lawrence Block is a welcome addition to my bookshelf. ...Block has a gift for casual gems of wisdom that stir my storytelling imagination.""No subject is off limits for Block. From lofty questions (how do writers get their ideas?) to the mundane (how many pages should you write every day?) to the personal (how often should writers exercise? how should writers budget their money?), the advice is practical, funny, and never boring. I do not have a desire to be an author, but these glimpses into the writing life fascinated me."While Telling Lies for Fun & Profit and Spider Spin Me a Web group the author's columns by topic, Block scrapped this approach when preparing The Liar's Bible and The Liar's Companion, feeling the material flowed more naturally by simply running the columns in chronological order. As Block has written, "Bible and Companion consist of my later columns, and as such they seem to me the best representation of my views on the subjects at hand. Telling Lies has always been the bestseller, perhaps because it led the way, perhaps because I'd had the good luck to stumble on a particularly good title...but I think it quite likely that Bible and Companion are the better books."
"H llisch raffiniert ... ein hoch erfreuliches Wiedersehen mit einem alten Freund ... Lawrence Blocks Matthew-Scudder-Serie ist aus dem Krimigenre nicht mehr wegzudenken, und Der Club der Toten stellt einen neuen H hepunkt auf diesem Gebiet dar." Los Angeles Times Book ReviewIm zw lften Roman mit Lawrence Blocks fesselndster Figur bekommt es Matt Scudder mit einer Mordserie zu tun, die weit in die Vergangenheit zur ckreicht.Am 4. Mai 1961 treffen sich drei ig junge M nner, die sich untereinander nicht kennen, mit einem wesentlich lteren Mann zum Abendessen. Sein Name ist Homer Champney, und er ist der letzte berlebende eines 31 Mitglieder umfassenden Clubs, der im letzten Jahr des 19. Jahrhunderts zum ersten Mal zusammengetreten ist. Jetzt besteht seine Aufgabe darin, drei ig Mitglieder f r einen neuen Club zu finden, um diese weit zur ckreichende Tradition nicht abrei en zu lassen.Daraufhin kommen diese M nner einmal im Jahr zu einem gemeinsamen Abendessen zusammen. Im Lauf der Jahre beginnen sich ihre Reihen jedoch zwangsl ufig zu lichten, doch die Sterblichkeitsrate scheint unnat rlich hoch. Ist das nur ein bedauerlicher Zufall? Oder gibt es jemand, der es sich zum Ziel gesetzt hat, diesen Prozess zu beschleunigen und die Mitglieder des Clubs einen nach dem anderen zu ermorden?"Ungeschminkt. Wirklichkeitsnah. Ein gro artiges Buch." Marilyn Stasio, New York Times Book Review"Matthew Scudder hat sich zum perfekten Noir-Helden gemausert." Entertainment Weekly"Einfallsreich, von der ersten bis zur letzten Seite spannend. Uneingeschr nkt zu empfehlen " Baltimore Sun
Von Willa Cathers Bonmot zu Beginn des Buchs - "Selbst die B sen bekommen Schlimmeres, als sie verdienen " - bis zum letzten Satz begl ckt Block seine Leser wieder einmal mit einem gro artig geschriebenen Scudder-Roman. Thomas Gaughan, BooklistIm Namen des Volkes ist der dreizehnte Roman mit Lawrence Blocks fesselndster Figur Matthew Scudder, der diesmal zwei brisante F lle zu l sen hat. Da ist zum einen ein selbst ernannter K mpfer f r Recht und Ordnung, der sich der "Volkswille" nennt. Zu seinen wenig einnehmenden Opfern geh ren ein Kinderm rder, der wegen eines juristischen Formfehlers freigesprochen wird, ein radikaler Abtreibungsgegner, der mehrere rzte in Abtreibungskliniken ermordet hat, und ein fanatischer schwarzer Rassist. Matt Scudders zweiter Fall dreht sich um die scheinbar sinn- und grundlose Ermordung eines Aidskranken, der auf einer Parkbank erschossen worden ist.Doch als Scudder den Fall gel st hat, ergibt alles einen Sinn ... und Willa Cathers Beobachtung best tigt sich."Nur ein Autor wie Lawrence Block ist zu dem grotesken Humor, dem Horror und der nur in New York m glichen Absurdit t eines Serienm rders imstande, der unter dem Namen "Der Volkswille" grausame Selbstjustiz bt und neben Gangstern und Kindersch ndern auch einen Theaterkritiker auf seine Abschussliste gesetzt hat. The New York Times Book Review, Marilyn Stasio"Block hat den Krimifans einen weiteren packenden und vielschichtigen Scudder-Roman beschert. Scientific American"Wie immer ist Blocks Einfallsreichtum beim Erfinden neuer Plots und Themen unersch pflich." The New Yorker
In Roseburg, Oregon, a bartender walks off his job and heads east with no destination in mind. The Cascades are in his way, but he doesn't let that stop him.He keeps walking. And other people are moved to join him, and as they walk the group generates a sort of collective energy, and unexpected things happen. Miraculous things, you might say.Meanwhile, in Kansas, a perfectly respectable real estate professional loses his temper with a prostitute and surprises himself by killing her. He's even more surprised to discover that he enjoys it as he has never enjoyed anything before. It's even more enjoyable the second time. So he puts his work and his marriage and his whole life on hold and drives around the country, looking for more women to kill.RANDOM WALK is unlike anything else Lawrence Block has written. Originally published by Tor Books in 1988, it got spotty reviews and disappointing sales. A lot of people didn't know what to make of it. Here's the author's report of reactions over the years: "Sometimes at a book signing or other public appearance, someone'll come up to me and say, 'You know, I've enjoyed everything you've written, except there was one book that just didn't work for me at all, and I couldn't figure out what you had in mind when you wrote it.' And someone else will say, "I've read and enjoyed your books for years, but there's one book that hit me like a ton of stone tablets, and I've read it seventeen times and I get something new from it each time and I have to say it changed my life.' And I'll know right away that they're both talking about RANDOM WALK. I suppose for some people it's just another book, but for a sizable proportion of readers it's a definite outlier-they either love it like crazy or they don't get it at all."RANDOM WALK has been in and out of print in the thirty years since it first appeared, delighting some readers and confusing others. We're now very pleased to make it newly available, so that you may decide for yourself what you think of it.
Dalla sua prima comparsa nel 1977, Bernie Rhodenbarr si guadagnato la crescente simpatia di un pubblico internazionale. Questo personaggio, scanzonato e dalle mani leste, i cui talenti come investigatore riescono a tirarlo fuori dai guai in cui lo hanno messo le sue abilit di ladro, conquista il cuore e la mente dei lettori romanzo dopo romanzo.Il Ladro che beveva Rye la sua nona avventura.Il romanzo di Gulliver Fairborn, Il Figlio di Nessuno, aveva cambiato la vita di Bernie Rhodenbarr. Ma adesso la bella Alice Cottrell, che anni prima era stata l'amante di Fairborn, vuole che il nostro ladro - libraio e bibliofilo - penetri in una stanza del Paddington, incantevole albergo di New York, e che rubi delle lettere molto personali di quello scrittore prima che un'agente letteraria di pochi scrupoli possa venderle.E' un'occasione per utilizzare le sue rare abilit al servizio dell'autore, tanto famoso quanto notoriamente geloso della propria privacy. Ma quando Bernie arriva, l'agente morta... e Bernie accusato di omicidio. (Lui odia quando questo capita )Forse una vendetta della sorte: Bernie si era veramente appropriato di una collana di rubini mentre se ne andava. (Ma la collana era l , e lui un ladro.) Adesso, per , in una situazione anche peggiore, e dovr usare ogni trucco possibile - forse perfino convincendo il solitario Fairborn a uscire dalla sua vita isolata - per arrivare a una conclusione soddisfacente di questa trama sempre pi intricata.
"This is either the funniest dirty book or the dirtiest funny book ever written " -Isaac AsimovSomewhere around 1969 I began to grow dissatisfied with the underlying principle of most novels---that a disembodied voice in the first or third person was telling us a story. I liked the idea of novels passing themselves off as documents, and drew inspiration from Mark Harris's WAKE UP, STUPID, and Sue Kaufman's DIARY OF A MAD HOUSEWIFE, the first ostensibly a collection of letters, the second, duh, a diary. (One could, of course, go back further, to the very beginnings of the English novel in the works of Daniel Defoe and Samuel Richardson.)I also found myself interested in writing with greater candor about sexual topics. I had knocked out dozens of soft-core paperbacks, and wanted to try anew with greater freedom and more realism.I wrote three paperback original novels for Berkley under the pen name Jill Emerson, two of them in diary form, the third a presumed collaborative novel written in concert by the three viewpoint characters. These were fun to do and worked out well, and they led to RONALD RABBIT IS A DIRTY OLD MAN. I riffed on the experience of my friend George Dickerson, who like the novel's protagonist had the magazine he was editing folded out from under him; George went on reporting to his empty office for several months, until they found him out when they noticed he'd stopped using his expense account. (A man of many talents, George went on to serve as a reporter for Time Magazine for several years, then segued into a career as an actor; he had a principal role in Blue Velvet.) I spliced in an experience of my own, when I drank for hours at the Kettle of Fish on Macdougal Street, emerging only to be picked up by a carful of rich Catholic schoolgirls from the Academy of the Sacred Heart in Noroton, Connecticut, who essentially kidnapped me and drove me back to school with them. These things happen.I wrote the book in four furious days in an apartment on West 35th Street. I did so thinking it would be another pseudonymous paperback, and that no doubt gave me the freedom to write it as I did; after it was written, the friends who read it liked it so much that I was persuaded to publish it as a hardcover novel, and under my own name. My agent sent it to Bernard Geis, a quirky publisher whose editor-Don Preston-loved the book. Bernie had offices on two floors in midtown Manhattan, and had installed a fireman's pole in case one wanted to get from 9 to 8 in a hurry. All I recall of Don is he told me to avoid seeing Carnal Knowledge, which he hated, and that I must hurry to see McCabe and Mrs.Miller, which he loved. Once I'd managed to sit through McCabe and Mrs. Miller, I knew I'd love Carnal Knowledge.Around the time Ronald Rabbit was published, Bernard Geis slid into Chapter Eleven. I can't think this had a salutary effect on sales. Martin Levin in the New York Times Book Review pointed out that the book was written in the form of a series of letters, which was also the case with Richardson's Pamela, generally acknowledged to be the first English novel. And that, Mr. Levin said, was as much as he had to say on the subject.Well, that's fair.I had the publisher send a copy to Isaac Asimov, whom I'd met a few times over the years. "That's either the funniest dirty book or the dirtiest funny book I've ever read," Isaac told me. "That would make a wonderful blurb," I said. "Over my dead body," he replied.Well, okay. Isaac's been gone over 25 years now, and while I wish he were still around, he's not. And so I'll just remember him fondly, and thank him for giving Ronald Rabbit is a Dirty Old Man a helping hand, all these years later.
A NEW HAT.FOR A NEW HIT.Happily retired, living under a new name with his wife and daughter, Keller thought he was out of the murder-for-hire business. Until he got the call from his old employer, asking him to tackle the most unusual assignment of his career. The client's wife is having an affair, and Keller's been hired to get rid of her lover. But who is this mysterious lover? The husband doesn't know-he only knows that she has one, and he wants the man dead.It's an opportunity for Keller to try his hand at the private eye game, investigating the adulterous spouse. And yes, he does buy himself a new hat for the occasion, a fedora worthy of any film noir detective. But in this puzzling situation, with more than one potential lover in the picture and more than one potential solution, is Keller going to be a black hat or a white hat-or something in between...?One of MWA Grand Master Lawrence Block's greatest creations, Keller is the two-time Edgar Award-winning star of Hit Man, Hit List, Hit Parade, Hit and Run, and Hit Me. "Keller's Fedora" is the first new Keller story in more than three years.
Blurb copy: Das Leben hat es gut gemeint mit Byrne und Susan Hollander. Er ist Anwalt, sie Schriftstellerin; ihr mitten in Manhattan gelegenes Stadthaus ist inzwischen drei Millionen Dollar wert und befindet sich nicht weit vom Lincoln Center, wo sie an diesem Abend ein Wohlt tigkeitskonzert besuchen. Nach dem Konzert gehen sie zu Fu nach Hause. An diesem Punkt nimmt ihr Leben eine dramatische Wende. Bei ihrer R ckkehr berraschen die Hollanders zwei Einbrecher in ihrem Haus und werden von ihnen brutal ermordet. Schon wenige Tage sp ter findet die Polizei die zwei T ter, beide tot, allem Anschein nach ein Mord und ein Selbstmord. Der Fall wird zu den Akten gelegt. Doch Matt Scudder beginnt sich f r die Angelegenheit zu interessieren, als ihn die Tochter der Hollanders engagiert, um der M glichkeit nachzugehen, dass an der Tat ein dritter Mann beteiligt war. Die Hinweise sind vage und beruhen haupts chlich auf Indizien, doch Scudder vertraut auf seinen in vierzig Jahren Ermittlert tigkeit gesch rften Instinkt. Block, der zahlreiche Bestseller geschrieben und die entsprechende Anzahl an Preisen daf r eingeheimst hat, orientiert sich an vielen g ngigen Krimimustern, schafft es aber dennoch, dem Genre seltene Tiefe und Eindringlichkeit zu verleihen. Scudder ist als ein dem Alkohol verfallener, sich in Selbstmitleid suhlender Ex-Cop auf der Bildfl che erschienen, hat sich aber inzwischen zu einem im doppelten Sinn des Wortes n chternen und illusionslosen Gegenwartsbeobachter gemausert. Kenner der Serie wissen, dass der Weg ihres Helden m hsam und oft auch schmerzhaft war. Die Verbrechen in den Scudder-Romanen sind Vehikel, die uns in die finstersten Winkel der menschlichen Existenz bef rdern. Mit Matt als unserem F hrer kehren wir von diesen Ausfl gen in die dunklen Bereiche des Daseins etwas banger, aber immer um eine Erfahrung reicher zur ck.-Wes Lukowsky in BooklistDas ist der 15. Matthew-Scudder-Roman in 25 Jahren, und die Leser von Blocks Noir-Serie wissen, was sie zu erwarten haben. Auch diesmal fehlt keine der gewohnten Zutaten: die lebensnahe Schilderung der unvergleichlichen Atmosph re von New York City; Ausfl ge zu AA-Treffen in Kirchenkellern; Mick Ballous Bar; und die vertrauten Figuren wie Ballou, der junge TJ und Elaine, Matt Scudders mildernde Einfluss. In diesem Roman besuchen Matt und Elaine ein Wohlt tigkeitskonzert, das im Rahmen der Mostly Mozart-Festspiele im Lincoln Center stattfindet. Im selben Konzert ist auch ein Paar, das sp ter in seinem Stadthaus in der Upper West Side ermordet wird. Wenig sp ter werden auch die "M rder" selbst in Brooklyn tot aufgefunden. Haupts chlich weil er gerade nichts Besseres zu tun hat, beginnt sich Scudder, ohne von jemand dazu aufgefordert zu werden, mit dem Fall zu besch ftigen und gelangt dabei mehr und mehr zu einem schockierenden Schluss. Die in den Handlungsverlauf eingestreuten Schilderungen aus der Sicht des wahren M rders verleihen dem Ganzen den Charakter eines perfiden Katz-und-Maus-Spiels. Dennoch werden diejenigen, die hektische Action suchen, hier entt uscht werden; die Gangart ist gem chlich, und die Charaktere und Milieuschilderungen sind fast genauso wichtig wie der Plot. Rundum empfehlenswert, besonders f r Leihbibliotheken, wo die Leser danach fragen werden.-Fred Gervat in Library Journal
Endlich kann Matt Scudder ein behagliches Leben f hren. Die Kriminalit tsrate ist gesunken, die Aktienkurse steigen und die Gentrifizierung sorgt daf r, dass das alte Viertel in neuem Glanz erstrahlt. Die Stra en New Yorks wirken bei Weitem nicht mehr so gef hrlich wie fr her.Dann bricht die H lle aus.Schnell muss Scudder am eigenen Leib erfahren, dass die herausgeputzten B rgersteige so gef hrlich sind wie immer: dunkel, brutal und voller Blutflecken. Er lebt in einer Welt, in der die Vergangenheit ein Minenfeld, die Gegenwart ein Kriegsgebiet und die Zukunft eine offene Frage ist. Eine Welt, in der nichts und niemand sicher ist, ein zufallsgesteuertes Universum, in dem das berleben nicht als selbstverst ndlich vorausgesetzt werden kann. Auch sein eigenes nicht.Es ist eine Welt, in der alle sterben.Publishers Weekly schrieb ber den Roman: Die Zahl der Leichen ist in der Tat betr chtlich im neuesten Matt-Scudder-Roman, der der beste seit >Ruhet in Frieden
Wenn du die Cops nicht holen kannst, holst du ScudderKenan Khourys Frau geht einkaufen und kommt nicht mehr nach Hause. Jedenfalls nicht lebendig. Aber weil Kenan Khoury im gro en Stil mit Drogen handelt, kann er nicht zur Polizei gehen. Stattdessen wendet er sich an Matthew Scudder, einen Alkoholiker und Ex-Cop, der inzwischen ohne Lizenz als Privatdetektiv arbeitet und vor nichts zur ckschreckt, um die brutalen M rder zu berf hren und zu verhindern, dass ihnen eine weitere Frau zum Opfer f llt.Die Killer sind mit seltener Brutalit t vorgegangen, und Scudder wei , sie tun so etwas nicht zum ersten Mal und werden es wieder tun. Mit Unterst tzung seiner Freundin Elaine und des gewieften TJ gelingt es ihm schlie lich, die teuflischen T ter in einem angemessenen Ambiente zu stellen - auf einem Friedhof in Brooklyn, in einer rabenschwarzen Nacht ..."Lawrence Blocks Matthew Scudder, einer der markantesten Detektive aller Zeiten, kehrt in seinem schockierendsten Fall auf die Leinwand zur ck, dargestellt von Superstar Liam Neeson (96 Hours) und in Szene gesetzt von Drehbuchautor/Regisseur Scott Frank (Schnappt Shorty, Out of Sight)." -- Hard Case Crime
For bookseller and compulsive burglar Bernie Rhodenbarr, a weekend at a country bed-and-breakfast inn takes an unexpected twist when a valuable book is stolen, a dead body turns up in the library, and his former girlfriend arrives with her reprehensible new husband in tow. Reprint.
The Cold War's boiling over. Global tensions are near the breaking point. So what's the perfect assignment for a super-spy who hasn't slept since the Korean conflict? A fun-filled trip to the Montreal World's Fair The adorable little girl he's escorting--who, under different circumstances, would be sitting on the Lithuanian throne--can hardly contain her excitement, but it isn't all playtime for Evan Tanner. Some mysterious disappearances, apparently linked to the fair's Cuban exhibition, need to be looked into. Keeping his mind on business, however, won't be easy after an insatiable lovely in a tiger skin falls into Tanner's arms, and a mother lode of dangerous drugs falls into his lap. But the biggest, deadliest suprise is the terrorist plot Tanner's tumbling into, and he'll have to think and act quickly to prevent the visiting queen of England from being blown to smithereens.
Cold War superspy Evan Tanner lost the ability to sleep on a battlefield in Korea. So where the heck has he been since the '70s? Frozen. Cryogenically. A Tanner-sicle. Which he never thought would happen when he walked into a basement in Union City, New Jersey, more than a quarter century ago. Now he's unthawed and ready to rumble, and his somewhat addled, former super-secret boss, "the Chief," is glad his favorite operative's active again. Tanner awoke to a different world, though some bad things have remained the same . . . or gotten worse. Even before he can fully acclimate himself to this perplexing future, Tanner's off to Burma (which isn't really Burma anymore) to pose as a monk, destabilize the government, dodge a lethal double-cross, and rescue a beautiful prisoner. The world's still full of conspiracy, corruption, greed, political chicanery--and beautiful women. So Tanner's back with a vengeance, with a lot of lost time to make up for.
The bear is on the prowl in many different guises. He may be the master thief stealing into Graceland, an intense young passenger experimenting in terror, or a psychiatrist haunted by his patient's nightmare. Or maybe he's beautiful, lethal woman in a blood-red scarf. So beware of the this huge, dangerous beast. Because first he will enthrall you.. and then he will strike.
SO THIS GIRL WALKS INTO A BAR......and when she walks out there's a man with her. She goes to bed with him, and she likes that part. Then she kills him, and she likes that even better. On her way out, she cleans out his wallet. She keeps moving, and has a new name for each change of address. She's been doing this for a while, and she's good at it. And then a chance remark gets her thinking of the men who got away, the lucky ones who survived a night with her. She starts writing down names. And now she's a girl with a mission. Picking up their trails. Hunting them down. Crossing them off her list...
Taking on the streets. East or Westside. Uptown and Down. The pace quickens through the boroughs from necessity. Every move the most important. Too much competition. Looking at each other for someone to blame. Doing anything just to be part of the magnitude. Everybody lost in the expanse. The City doesn't cheat you. It teaches. You absorb either knowledge or the blows. There are days when you find out you can't cut it anymore. And there are others when you come out at the top. The "Have A NYC" anthology series is an intense annual collection of modern short stories set in New York, edited by Peter Carlaftes and Kat Georges. In Have A NYC 2, authors include acclaimed crime writer Lawrence Block (Eight Million Ways to Die, Hit Me), contemporary surrealist writers Rae Bryant and Janet Hamill, and Evergreen Review editor Ron Kolm. Other authors include Jeb Gleason-Allured, Sion Dayson, Kofi Forson, Resa Alboher, L. Shapley Bassen, Michael Schwartz, Puma Perl, Jackie Sheeler, Peter Marra, Maria Kranidis, Richard Vetere and Eric Stromsvold.
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 short stories by seasoned and fresh writers who know how to tell them. Edited by Peter Carlaftes and Kat Georges, these stories are sharp and concise, each an unusual take on the swirling panorama of the streets of New York, from Hell's Kitchen to Greenwich Village and Coney Island to Williamsburg, Queens, and beyond. Readers are transported by a modern noir sensibility, populated by a plethora of characters of our times, carving new notches of experience on the city that still fires up the imagination. Authors in this edition include acclaimed crime novelist Lawrence Block (A Walk Among the Tombstones, 8 Million Ways to Die), Liz Axelrod, Gil Fagiani, Bonny Finberg, Michael Gatlin, Kat Georges, Kirpal Gordon, Ron Kolm, Peter Marra, J. Anthony Roman, Angela Sloan, Paul Sohar, Joanie Hieger Fritz Zosike and Nina Zivancevic.
