IN-PERSON BOOK DISCUSSION IN NEW YORK ON MONDAY, JULY 21, 2025
For our New York Metro Area members, our next in-person book discussion will held on Monday, July 21, 2025 at a restaurant in midtown Manhattan (specific location to be announced).
We will be discussing the Nero Wolfe novel Too Many Women (1947). Many people say this is the hardest of all the Nero Wolfe books to find, so it’s not too early to locate a copy now!
Prepayment is not necessary, but if you plan to attend, please let us know by e-mailing werowance -at- nerowolfe.org so we can give the restaurant a headcount. We hope to see many of you there!
UPCOMING VIRTUAL BOOK DISCUSSION ON TUESDAY, JULY 22, 2025
The Wolfe Pack also continues to hold bimonthly online book discussions via Zoom. The next one will be held on Tuesday, July 22, 2025. We will be discussing the novel If Death Ever Slept (1957).
These online book discussions are open to paid Wolfe Pack members only. There is no fee, but advance registration is required, and the number of attendees is limited. If you are a Wolfe Pack member, you should be receiving our monthly newsletters with details and registration information for book discussions and other events. If you haven’t received a newsletter recently, please e-mail werowance -at- nerowolfe.org
PLAN AHEAD AND SAVE THE DATE – ASSEMBLY AND BLACK ORCHID BANQUET IN NEW YORK – SATURDAY, DECEMBER 6, 2025
The 48th annual Black Orchid Banquet will be held in New York City this year on Saturday evening, December 6, 2025. The Wolfe Pack Assembly will be held the same day in the afternoon.
Hotel rooms and flights to New York are likely to get expensive as December approaches. For members traveling from outside the New York area, if you plan ahead and book now, rates will be much more reasonable! We hope to see many of you in New York.
SPECIAL EVENT – SAUL’S AND SARGE’S DAY – SUNDAY, DECEMBER 7, 2025
This year we will hold a special event on the morning after the Assembly and Black Orchid Banquet, celebrating two important Corpus characters.
We all know that Saul Panzer had extraordinary talents and abilities. For many years, Saul lived in a Manhattan apartment on East 38th Street, between Third and Lexington Avenues. We will meet on Sunday morning and walk the block – many of the buildings are unchanged since the Corpus era – and our mission will be to locate Saul’s apartment, using the clues we can assemble from the descriptions that Rex Stout gave us over the years.
Following our walk, we will meet for a group brunch at Sarge’s Deli, on Third Avenue between East 36th and 37th Streets. This restaurant has been open since the 1960s, when it was founded by a New York Police Department sergeant, whose photo still adorns the front of the menu. I don’t know the name of the sergeant … but what it if it was Sergeant Purley Stebbins of Manhattan Homicide? In any event, we hope the brunch will be a good wind-up for the Black Orchid Weekend, for New York area members and out-of-towners alike.
You will have the opportunity to sign up for these events when you register for the Assembly and Banquet this fall. Registration is required so we can give the restaurant a head-count. There will be no fee for either of these events, but please bring cash to pay for your food and drink order at the brunch. If there are any questions, please e-mail werowance -at- nerowolfe.org
REX STOUT INTERVIEW REPUBLISHED
During the early 1970s, Rex Stout gave a series of interviews to his biographer John McAleer, which were published under the title Royal Decree. This book has been out of print for many years and copies are difficult to obtain. These interviews have now been republished under the title Rex Stout: Killer Conversations with Edgar Winner John McAleer, with an updated introduction by William G. Tapply and an afterword by Edward D. Hoch. The book is now available via Amazon in either paperback or Kindle format. Highly recommended!
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Rex Stout on Dick Cavett Show
(September 2, 1969)
Michael Bourne's Interview with Rex Stout
(out of print, no longer available for purchase)
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Side 2 (approx. 10 second start delay)
Rex Stout Interviews John le Carre: Read the Print Interview
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THE MISADVENTURES OF NERO WOLFE:
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Soldiers of the Pen: The Writers' War Board in World War II by Thomas Howell
The little-known story of the WW II efforts of The Writers' War Board and its president, Rex Stout. Click the text link above to order.