Lawrence Block - editor has 4 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 5 narrators. The most-rated is In Sunlight or in Shadow.
From Sea to Stormy Sea
Summary
In the third installment of his acclaimed anthology series, master of crime fiction Lawrence Block has gathered together the best talent from popular fiction to produce an anthology of short stories based on masterpieces of American art. Seventeen stories by seventeen brilliant writers, inspired by seventeen paintings. That was the formula for Lawrence Block's two groundbreaking anthologies, In Sunlight or in Shadow and Alive in Shape and Color, and it's on glorious display here once again in From Sea to Stormy Sea. This time the paintings are exclusively the work of American artists, and the roster includes Harvey Dunn, John Steuart Curry, Reginald Marsh, Thomas Hart Benton, Helen Frankenthaler, Winslow Homer, Rockwell Kent, Grant Wood, Childe Hassam, and Andy Warhol. Among the star-studded lineup of writers you'll find Jerome Charyn, Jane Hamilton, Christa Faust, John Sandford, Sara Paretsky, Walter Mosley, Charles Ardai, Barry Malzberg, and Janice Eidus. Contains mature themes.
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At Home in the Dark
Summary
The crime fiction canopy's a broad one, with room to give shelter to writing of all sorts, as editor Lawrence Block shows with At Home in the Dark: "Some of these stories have one or both feet planted in another genre. James Reasoner's story is a period western, Joe Lansdale's is bleakly dystopian, and Joe Hill's novelette slithers through a little doorway into another world. And now that I've singled out those three, I suppose I should go ahead and list the rest of the gang: N. J. Ayres, Laura Benedict, Jill D. Block, Richard Chizmar, Hilary Davidson, Jim Fusilli, Elaine Kagan, Warren Moore, Joyce Carol Oates, Ed Park, Nancy Pickard, Thomas Pluck, Wallace Stroby, and Duane Swierczynski. If you're looking for a common denominator, two come to mind. They're all dark stories, with nothing cozy or comforting about them. And every last one of them packs a punch. Which is to say that they're all very much At Home in the Dark - and we can thank O. Henry, master of the surprise ending, for our title. 'Turn up the lights,' he said on his deathbed. 'I don't want to go home in the dark.'” Contains mature themes. copyright 2019 by Elaine Kagan (“Hot Pants”); copyright 2019 by Jim Fusilli (“The Eve of Infamy”); copyright 2019 by James Reasoner (“Night Rounds”); copyright 2019 by Joyce Carol Oates (“The Flagellant”); copyright 2019 by Ed Park (“The Things I’d Do”); copyright 2019 by N. J. Ayres (“Favored to Death”); copyright 2019 by Warren Moore (“Rough Mix”); copyright 2019 by Laura Benedict (“This Strange Bargain”); copyright 2019 by Joe R. Lansdale (“The Senior Girls Bayonet Drill Team”); copyright 2019 by Nancy Pickard (“If Only You Would Leave Me”); copyright 2019 by Duane Swierczynski (“Giant’s Despair”); copyright 2019 by Richard Chizmar (“Whistling in the Dark”); copyright 2019 by Jill D. Block (“O, Swear Not by the Moon”); copyright 2019 by Wallace Stroby (“Nightbound”); copyright 2019 by Thomas Pluck (“The Cucuzza Curse”); copyright 2019 by Hilary Davidson (“Cold Comfort”); copyright 2019 by Joe Hill (“Faun”)
©2019 Lawrence Block (P)2020 Tantor
The Darkling Halls of Ivy
Summary
In recent years, colleges and universities have become known for their "trigger warnings" and "safe spaces" - but as the 18 authors who penned stories for this powerful new anthology can tell you, there's plenty of danger still lurking behind the stolid stonework, leather-bound volumes, and thickets of ivy. Award-winning editor Lawrence Block has assembled a who's who of literary luminaries and turned them loose on the world of academia, where petty rivalries and grand betrayals inflame relations between professors and students, deans, and donors. From Ian Rankin to Joe Lansdale, Seanan McGuire to David Morrell, each author reveals the dark truths and buried secrets that make institutions of higher learning such a hotbed of controversy. You'll encounter plagiarism, sexual misconduct, and brutal competition - not to mention secret societies, cover-ups of murder, and one near-future course of study that makes The Handmaid's Tale look like Mother Goose. So: collect your supplies, plan your schedule, and prepare to pull an all-nighter, because The Darkling Halls of Ivy is required listening. Contains mature themes. Lawrence Block; copyright 2020 by David Morrell (“Requiem for a Homecoming”); copyright 2020 by Reed Farrel Coleman (“An Even Three”); copyright 2020 by Jane Hamilton (“Writing Maeve Dubinsky”); copyright 2020 by Warren Moore (“Alt-AC”); copyright 2020 by David Levien (“Einstein’s Sabbath”); copyright 2020 by Bizarre Hands, LLC (“The Degree”); copyright 2020 by A. J. Hartley (“Rounded with a Sleep”); copyright 2020 by Ian Rankin (“The Reasoners”); copyright 2020 by Tom Straw (“Noise Cancellation”); copyright 2020 by Xu Xi (S Komala) (“Monkey in Residence”); copyright 1996 by Peter Lovesey (“Bertie and the Boat Race”); copyright 2020 by Owen King (“That Golden Way”); copyright 2020 by Gar Anthony Haywood (“With Footnotes and References”); copyright 2020 by Nicholas Christopher (“Penelope McCoy”); copyright 2020 by Jill D. Block (“Tess and Julie, Julie and Tess”); copyright 2020 by John Lescroart (“Why Didn’t She Tell”); copyright 2020 by Seanan McGuire (“Foundational Education”); copyright 2020 by Tod Goldberg (“Goon #4”)
©2020 Lawrence Block (P)2020 Tantor
In Sunlight or in Shadow
Summary
Edgar Award Winner, Best Short Story, 2017 A truly unprecedented literary achievement by author and editor Lawrence Block, this newly-commissioned anthology of 17 superbly-crafted stories, each inspired by the paintings of Edward Hopper. Contributors include Stephen King, Joyce Carol Oates, Robert Olen Butler, Michael Connelly, Megan Abbott, Craig Ferguson, Nicholas Christopher, Jill D. Block, Joe R. Lansdale, Justin Scott, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Warren Moore, Jonathan Santlofer, Jeffery Deaver, Lee Child, and Lawrence Block himself. Even Gail Levin, Hopper's biographer and compiler of his catalogue raisonee, appears with her own first work of fiction, providing a true account of art theft on a grand scale and told in the voice of the country preacher who perpetrated the crime.
©2016 Lawrence Block (P)2016 Dreamscape Media, LLC