Robert Lamb


Location South Carolina
Occupation writer
Website http://boblamb.wordpress.com

Books by Robert Lamb
  • by Robert Lamb
    Harbor House, 2004-09.

  • by Robert Lamb
    Red Letter Press, 2009.

  • by Robert Lamb
    Permanent Press (NY), 1991-08.

  • by Robert Lamb, Charles C. Curran
    Red Letter Press, 2006.

  • by Robert Lamb, Chris Horn
    Red Letter Press, 1998.

  • by Cooper Riverbridge
    Red Letter Press, 2009.

  • by Robert Lamb
    CreateSpace, 2011.

  • by Robert Lamb
    Red Letter Press, 2011.

  • by Robert Lamb
    CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2014.
  • About Me

    I taught writing and American literature at the University of South Carolina for 20 years after my first novel, Striking Out, was published and nominated for the PEN/Hemingway Award. Now retired, I continue to write fiction and I review books for The New York Journal of Books. I've published three other novels: Atlanta Blues, A Majority of One, And Tell Tchaikovsky the News. My latest book is a collection of stories and poems titled Six of One, Half Dozen of Another. Always ready to talk writing, I can be reached at robtlamb@gmail.com.

    Why do you write?

    1) Trying to write good and true sentences motivates me.
    2) Some things just are.

    Any favorite authors? Books?

    Thomas Hardy is my all-time favorite novelist, I think. William Somerset Maugham is a long-time favorite short-story writer. I also like Thomas Wolfe, Hemingway, Phillip Roth, Carson McCullers, Proust, Tennessee Williams, Margaret Mitchell, Dickens, Eudora Welty, Tim O'Brien. That fellow Shakespeare wasn't bad, either.
    Best novel I ever read was Flaubert's Madam Bovary, and I like all of Hardy's better-known novels, especially Far From the Madding Crowd. A more modern choice is Roth's American Pastoral. Another is O'Brien's The Things They Carried.

    Robert Lamb's Wall

    James Claffey – May 30, 2012

    cheers for the comment on humpty dumpty!

    Larry Strattner – Dec 09, 2011

    Downloaded Majority of One today 12-8 @7:15pm (didn't want you to think I forgot you. Looking forward to the read. :-)

    Robert Lamb – Dec 08, 2011

    Attn: Fellow writers. Don't make the mistake I did in publishing two books close together. A Majority of One (the prologue of which appears here, on Fictionaut) is getting all the attention. The other, Six of One, Half Dozen of Another (Stories & Poems), is getting none. Never again!

    Robert Lamb – Sep 10, 2011

    Larry! Good to hear from you. Good to hear that you have a book close to publication. Be sure to keep me advised. I want to see it. Smashwords adapts for all E-readers. The tricky part is converting the ms. for Smashwords. The do-it-yourself route is tedious beyond words, so I hire it done for $25. Email me at boblamb@hotmail.com and I'll send you the details.

    Larry Strattner – Sep 10, 2011

    I noticed you have a book out. Having a Kindle I will be sure to read AMoO.
    I was shooting to publish a pulp effort of mine on Kindle but I may go with smashwords now that you alerted me to them. Thanks for that.
    Regards
    LarryS

    Matthew A. Hamilton – Sep 19, 2010

    Thanks for reading Back in an Hour. I'll check out the new e-mag. Thank you for letting me know.

    Jane Hammons – Sep 11, 2010

    Thanks for the suggestion, Bob.

    James Lloyd Davis – Aug 05, 2010

    Thanks for catching the right arm resting on the door error. Fixed it.

    Krista Clement – Aug 05, 2010

    Thanks for the review Bob! I appreciate the time you took to comment and read.

    Robert Lamb – Aug 04, 2010

    Boys Catholic was a Marist Brothers school. The parish I grew up in was Jesuit: Sacred Heart. I can't decide which was toughest.
    My old church, a wonder of Gothic architecture, was long ago deconsecrated (is that the word?). Sign of the times, I guess.
    Re teaching, I love it at the college level. Hated it at the public high school level. Two entirely different worlds.

    Matthew A. Hamilton – Aug 03, 2010

    Thank you for reading Garden Light. Much appreciated. I hope to teach, too, after I complete my MFA.

    I think the monks of Belmont Abbey founded the high school you attended or at least taught there at some point.

    Robert Lamb – Jul 20, 2010

    And I yours, Mykell. One might say that one Original Sin leads to another.

    J. Mykell Collinz – Jul 20, 2010

    Bob, thanks for reading Unoriginal Sin. I'm looking forward to reading more of your good writing.

    Robert Lamb – Jul 20, 2010

    Kari, Jerry, Mykell, the pleasure was mine. I love good writing.

    Kari Nguyen – Jul 20, 2010

    Bob, thank you for your comments on Star Anise. I appreciate the read very much!!

    Kari Nguyen – Jul 19, 2010

    Hi Bob, thank you so much for taking the time to read Miss. So glad you liked it.

    Jerry Ratch – Jul 17, 2010

    Thank you, Bob! And welcome!

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