Sex Takes a Holiday

Lawrence Block reflects on his early career, detailing how, after leaving the Nightstand Books publisher and adopting new pseudonyms, he created a final novel under the name Howard Bond. He recounts the story of how he delivered this manuscript to a publisher in Buffalo, the subsequent ambiguity about its publication, and the discovery of a surviving copy decades later. Through this anecdote, he offers insight into his writing life and the intriguing journey of a forgotten work from conception to rediscovery.