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Small Town (2003), Block's first non-series book in fifteen years, details a group of New Yorkers' varying responses to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. Block has also written dozens of short stories over the years, and he is the only four-time winner of the Edgar Award for Best Short Story.
April North (Beacon Books, 1961) Pads are for Passion (Beacon Books, 1961) (reissued by Hard Case Crime as A Diet of Treacle) Community of Women (Beacon Books, 1963) The Sex Shuffle (Beacon Books, 1964) (reissued by Hard Case Crime as Lucky at Cards) Savage Lover (Softcover Library, 1968) (written in 1958; reissued by Hard Case Crime as Sinner ...
One block book is known from about 1530, a collection of Biblical images with text, printed in Italy. [10] Most of the earlier block books are believed to have been printed in the Netherlands, and later ones in Southern Germany, likely in Nuremberg, Ulm, Augsburg, and Schwaben, among a few other locales. [11]
Bernie Rhodenbarr is the protagonist of the Burglar series of comic mystery novels by Lawrence Block.He first appeared in Burglars Can't Be Choosers, published in 1977; as of 2024, he has appeared in twelve novels by Block, as well as three short stories.
United States first edition cover of the first book in the Tales of the City series. Tales of the City is a series of ten novels written by American author Armistead Maupin from 1978 to 2024, depicting the life of a group of friends in San Francisco, many of whom are LGBTQ.
Block regards Tanner as an important development in his writing career. [2] Tanner was the author's first successful series character who maintained an audience for several books, paving the way for later successful series with the characters Chip Harrison, Matthew Scudder, and Bernie Rhodenbarr who all debuted in the 1970s.
A city block, residential block, urban block, or simply block is a central element of urban planning and urban design. In a city with a grid system, the block is the smallest group of buildings that is surrounded by streets. City blocks are the space for buildings within the street pattern of a city, and form the basic unit of a city's urban ...
Powell's flagship store, dubbed Powell's City of Books, is located in the Pearl District on the edge of downtown and occupies a full city block between NW 10th and 11th Avenues and between W. Burnside and NW Couch Streets. It contains over 68,000 square feet (6,300 square metres), about 1.6 acres, of retail floor space.