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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 anthology FIRST OF THE YEAR has accepted my memoir "My First Faggott" for publication in 2010 and my memoir "The Dawn of the Civil Rights Era" for publication in 2011. It will also be running a piece of mine entitled "Top Ten" at some future date. GetMedLegal.com will be posting my article "Fraud and the Holy Ghost" in October, and I will be contributing an introductory essay to the catalog for an upcoming art show in Lexington, KY of J.T. Dockery's illustrations for the graphic novel adaptation of Nick Tosches's "Spud Crazy." Finally, I expect to have a feature article on Albert Morse, one of the great American eccentrics of the second half of the twentieth century, in issue 302 of THE COMICS JOURNAL.

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.

Publishers

  • Fantagraphics

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