The Antick Musings of G.B.H. Hornswoggler, Gent.

I am no expert on poetry. Let's start there. I do read some of it, now and then, and think any serious reader should want to hit poetry now and then. The specifics will differ - maybe Dickinson, maybe Herrick, maybe Best American Poetry - but I have...

When Doug Green and I discussed bringing out a collection of these early stories, he brought up the subject of an introduction. "You can read through the stories," he said, "and write some sort of preface."
"One or the other," I said. "You decide which."...

Hey! Shit actually happens in this book! And those things largely validate my "get off the pot and actually say XYZ" grumblings from the previous books, which also makes me happy. [1] Once again, I'm not claiming any great powers of reasoning or insight...

I'm going to try not to repeat what I wrote here nine years ago about the first edition, but that will be difficult: it's still largely the same book, if spruced up, reorganized, expanded and improved.
So let me start with the TL;DR version of both posts: Lawrence Block is a smooth, engaging writer who has had a long, interesting career, mostly in the fields of crime fiction, and Afterthoughts, Version 2.0 collects afterwords from a wide variety of...