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Presented by The Block Agency (https://theblockagency.com/) Welcome to the Nashville Block Party! NBP is your one-stop shop for Nashville scoops, worldwide travel tips, and fun, fast-paced conversations with influencers, athletes, actors, entrepreneurs, and more. Hosted by The Block Agency founder, Mark Block, you'll gain perspectives you can't find anywhere else while adding even more destinations to your bucket list. New episodes every Tuesday! FOLLOW MARK BLOCK Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theblockagency/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chuystraveltips/ FOLLOW THE POD YouTube: ...

While he is probably best known as a novelist and short-story writer, Lawrence Block has produced a rich trove of nonfiction over the course of a 60-year career. Over the years, Block has written extensively for magazines and periodicals. Generally Speaking collects his philatelic columns from Linn's Stamp News, while his extensive observations of crime fiction, along with personal glimpses of some of its foremost practitioners, have won wide acclaim in book form as The Crime of Our Lives. Hunting Buffalo with Bent Nails is what he's got left over.

Rich Tretheway and Marc Scortino live on Block Island, a seven miles-long by three miles-wide rock thirteen miles off the southeastern tip of Rhode Island. Life can get...well...kind of interesting out there. The island is populated by a host of colorful and eccentric characters who coexist the best they can in extremely close quarters. When summer hits and the ferry boats roll in packed with tourists, chaos sometimes ensues. Tune in to find out how the inhabitants of Block Island deal with it...or not deal with it. *While the things we talk about on the podcast shouldn't offend too many ...