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Bob Levin "Lurid and fascinating... loathsome (and)... compelling." UTNE Reader

Bob Levin

Biography

Bob Levin was born in Philadelphia March 14, 1942. Since 1968, he has lived in Berkeley with his wife Adele, a writer and retired psychotherapist. An attorney, he has represented the injured in workers' compensation cases for more than 35 years.

Levin is the author of THE BEST RIDE TO NEW YORK (novel), FULLY ARMED (biographic fiction), THE PIRATES AND THE MOUSE (non-fiction), OUTLAWS, REBELS, PIRATES, FREETHINKERS & PORNOGRAPHERS (essays), and MOST OUTRAGEOUS (non-fiction). His short stories and articles have appeared in a variety of publications, including MASSACHUSETTS REVIEW, CAROLINA QUARTERLY, KARAMU, SPIN, NEW REPUBLIC, and CAVALIER. His writings have won awards from Pushcart Press, CCLM, the San Francisco Bar Association, and the NEA. He is a long time contributing writer to THE COMICS JOURNAL.

Upcoming Works

  • THE COMICS JOURNAL will be running a brief review I did of J.T. Dockery's IN TONGUES ILLUSTRATED, accompanied by a short interview I conducted with the author. "Pariahs," a chapter from a memoir-in-progress is scheduled for publication in FIRST OF THE YEAR 2009, sometime this fall. THE BROAD STREET REVIEW, an on-line journal, has been running brief pieces of mine, generally about growing up in West Philadelphia in the 1950s, on a regular basis.

Favorite Authors

  • Aside from "Influences," Flannery O'Connor, A.J. Liebling, and Elmore Leonard.

Causes I Support

  • Comic Book Legal Defense Fund, ACLU, PEN, Berkeley Emergency Food & Housing Project, The Gravestone Fund

Publishers

  • Fantagraphics

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