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This book is Lawrence Block's only memoir. It is also a travelogue, an autobiography, and a "sporting adventure" that perhaps only a novelist can write. In this book, he tells his experience as a runner and walker. The book is divided into three parts, with a total of 31 chapters. He tells walking stories one by one using exquisite montage techniques, integrating the author's growth experience, writing career, characters in the book, and walking experience into a humorous, ironic, and stripped-down book of life, sharing his successes, failures, and trials with the world. Many of Bullock's most popular masterpieces were written during competitions that challenged physical limits. He also discovered that walking and writing are exactly the same: all you have to do is take turns moving forward with two legs, and the secret is to stay on the field and keep moving forward.

Bernie Rodenbarr is a thief who has been in prison twice. This time he was entrusted to steal a blue box in a luxury apartment. Things are never that simple... The blue box was not stolen, but there was a body lying in the bedroom. Bernie has since become a wanted criminal. He sneaks into a friend's empty fan and hides, trying to prove his innocence with the help of a beautiful neighbor. Follow Rodenbarr through his crazy criminal career and you will discover that this thief will steal your heart...

17 full-color Hopper paintings + 17 short stories by the master of fiction. Lawrence Block was a fan of Edward Hopper. Like the film director Hitchcock, who was also obsessed with Hopper's paintings, he was obsessed with the loneliness and loneliness that penetrated into the bones of Hopper's paintings. Bullock therefore invited 16 contemporary best-selling American novelists, together with himself, to write a short story for each of Hopper's 17 well-known paintings, and compiled a short story collection containing 17 stories.

For 30 years, Tony Leung has dreamed of starring in "Eight Million Ways to Die"! Tony Leung flew half way around the world just to meet the author; he begged for cooperation 4 times just to play the protagonist of this book. Tony Leung once said: "I have read all Lawrence Block's books, and I particularly like Matthew's series." "Eight Million Ways to Die" understands Tony Leung's loneliness so well! "Eight Million Ways to Die" is the masterpiece of Laurence Block, winner of the "Edgar Allan Poe Lifelong Master Award", and is a favorite book collection of cultural elites! Wong Kar-Wai read "Eight Million Ways to Die". He didn't like using scripts, so he invited the author to be the screenwriter of "Blueberry Nights"! Zhu Tianwen read "Eight Million Ways to Die" and flew to New York to re-walk the path taken by the protagonist of the book! Sales are booming in Britain, the United States, Germany, France, Japan and other countries; well-known media such as the New York Times and Wall Street Journal unanimously praised it! "Eight Million Ways to Die" is also a work that best understands "urban loneliness", describing the unspeakable loneliness of everyone in the bustling city. There are eight million people in this city and eight million kinds of loneliness. There is always someone willing to listen to your loneliness. In the noisy and lonely New York City, a lonely alcoholic detective. The death of a beautiful woman, a series of murders that no one cared about. A complete drunkenness, a single-handed self-salvation. This naked city has eight million people, eight million stories, and eight million ways to die. In this naked city, people are lonely and addicted, sinking alone, and then at an unknown time, die in one of the eight million ways to die, and are quickly replaced and forgotten. Fortunately, there is always someone who cares about everything about us. "My name is Matt and I have nothing to say."

Matthew went to the boxing ring to investigate a case. In the audience, he noticed a man with a little boy. The man inadvertently stroked the boy's hair with his hands, which triggered Matthew's memory: he saw the entire process of a man and a woman brutally killing a boy on a videotape. As Matthew pursues, the two cases actually intersect.

A mysterious guest calling himself Smith arrives. Smith disliked Fitzgerald extremely, but was willing to spend a lot of money to buy his manuscripts. At the same time, an old woman died in the red-walled villa on Ninety-second Street. Bernie Roddenbart was not only a thief, but also a gentleman, so he could not remain indifferent to the old woman's death. While he teamed up with New York police officer Ray Kirchman to solve the mystery of the red-walled villa, he continued his life as a thief, moving between expensive paintings, silver spoons and countless buttons. No one could have imagined that Smith's real purpose was...

One day, a mysterious guest named Smith came to visit. Smith disliked Fitzgerald extremely, but was willing to spend a lot of money to buy his manuscripts. At the same time, an old woman died in the red-walled villa on Ninety-second Street. Bernie Roddenbart was not only a thief, but also a gentleman, so he could not remain indifferent to the old woman's death. While he teamed up with New York police officer Ray Kirchman to solve the mystery of the red-walled villa, he continued his life as a thief, passing between expensive paintings, silver spoons and countless buttons. No one could have imagined that Smith's real purpose was...

No longer agile? Are you getting timid? Luo Dengbao, who has changed his job in middle age, finally bids farewell to dark night adventures and becomes a second-hand bookstore owner. It's just that... A rare book that is said to be unique in the world - a collection of anti-Semitic poems written by Kipling and presented to famous figures, is causing collectors from all walks of life to compete for it. If you can... You have to pay the price just for your heartbeat. In the blink of an eye, he had inexplicably transformed from a kind and good citizen to a dangerous fugitive wanted by the police...