Paul Levinson

@PaulLev
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#author 20 books: #ScienceFiction novels (best known: The Silk Code, The Plot to Save Socrates), media/politics (best known: The Soft Edge, Digital McLuhan, New New Media); prof Fordham Univ in New York City; #podcaster; #SingerSongwriter (LPs: Twice Upon a Rhyme, Spun Dreams, Welcome Up: Songs of Space and Time); these days writing time travel, alternate realities; most recent novel: "It's Real Life: An Alternate History of The Beatles"
Main Website - mostly reviews of streaming TV shows and movieshttps://paullevinson.blogspot.com/
Podcasthttps://paullev.libsyn.com/
Musichttps://www.reverbnation.com/paullevinson
Bookshttps://paullevinson.blogspot.com/2007/06/my-books-novels-and-nonfiction-and.html
Marshall Soule's pathbreaking new book, Play Attention, being published by Connected Editions, is now up for pre-order on Amazon-US https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0H3M45SRG/ref=nosim/?tag=dexter2a-20 , Amazon-Canada https://www.amazon.ca/Play-Attention-Marshall-Soules-ebook/dp/B0H3M45SRG , more than a dozen other countries on Planet Earth, and Amazon Mars (only kidding of course about Mars -- I've been watching too much For All Mankind).
This is Ruth Sanderson's cover for the 100th anniversary issue of
Amazing Stories, due to be published in next month or so. Will have a brand new time travel story from me, about
baseball -- can't say anything more.
the beginning of The Plot to Save Socrates ... reading from Second Life, hidden in the mists of time.... #sciencefiction #SecondLife
Song of the Unsung Mushroom now available in Kindle, paperback, hardcover (in photo), and audiobook https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FPXSW365/ref=nosim/?tag=dexter2a-20 #sciencefiction
I had a little more to say about Bob Dylan's new science fiction novel https://paullev.substack.com/p/further-thoughts-on-dylans-science #sciencefiction
Outside the window on Cape Cod ... great way to welcome in the New Year!
David Browne won big last week at the Los Angeles Press Club awards for his “‘I Was Taken Hostage’: How an American Metal Rocker Landed in Russian Prison” article in Rolling Stone. Here’s my review of his Talkin’ Greenwich Village book, and my interview with David earlier this year. https://paullev.substack.com/p/review-of-david-brownes-talkin-greenwich
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At The Players earlier this evening: Joshua Meyrowitz & I talking about his book No Sense of Place. Thanks Lance Strate, Peggy Cassidy, and the Institute for General Semantics for organizing and hosting this. Thanks Joseph Weisenthal for the photo and the great questions.
So relevant to our country and world today, I put this review (first published in 2021) of Andrey Mir 's book up on Substack https://paullev.substack.com/p/review-of-andrey-mirs-postjournalism