Westlake Score and review: 361 by Donald E. Westlake

NB: A version of this post also appears on Existential Ennui.

As anyone who’s been following my books blog Existential Ennui for a while will know, I’ve been avidly collecting Donald E. Westlake first (and other) editions—both his “own-brand” books and his Richard Stark, Tucker Coe et al pseudonymous works—since 2010. It’s […]

The slaying of writer’s block, Backflash, 361, and podcasts

One reason I haven’t been posting much lately is because I’ve had an acute case of writer’s block. You see, I read both Backflash and 361 recently, and felt obligated to write about them. It wasn’t working. And that was stopping me from writing anything else.

361 itself was partially a product of writer’s […]