Thursday, March 19, 2015

THROWBACK THURSDAY :: Lawrence Block

For this week's Throwback Thursday we head back in the notebook more than a decade to Lawrence Block's Small Town. Sadly, I have not, in the ten plus years since I first read this passage, been able to think of my irritations as future pearls. Maybe they just need more time:


"The by-product of the oyster's relief was the shimmering beauty of the pearl. And every pearl, every single luminous gem, had at the core of its being a grain of irritation."



If you haven't read Lawrence Block, by all means get started on that. His Matt Scudder series has been one of the best in crime fiction for almost forty years. I also recommend the Keller and Bernie Rhodenbarr series, and he writes fantastic short fiction. Hell, just go try it all. You can find out more about him at lawrenceblock.com or @LawrenceBlock.
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About Malcolm Avenue Review

I was lucky enough to be born and raised in a nifty, oak-shaded ranch house on Malcolm Avenue, a wide-laned residential street with little through traffic, located amid the foothills of Northern California. It was on that street and in that house I learned most of my adolescent life lessons, and many grown-up ones to boot. Malcolm Avenue was "home" for more than thirty years.

It was on Malcolm Avenue, through and with my family and the other families that made up our neighborhood of characters, that I first learned about and gained an appreciation for the things I continue to love the most to this day: music, animals, photography, sports, television/movies and, of course, books.

I owe a debt of gratitude to that life on Malcolm Avenue. It gave me a sense of community and friendship, support and adventure. For better and worse, life on that street likely had the biggest impact on the person I've become. So this blog, and the things I write here, are all, at their base level, a little bit of a love letter to Malcolm Avenue.

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