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.
Junior year, Creative Writing 101a was taught by Allen Roberts, a balding, forty-ish bachelor who lived suspiciously alone in an apartment on Beacon Hill. Mr. Roberts lacked tenure.
Sophomore year, I had Humanities II with Miss Steinberg. She had a moon face, tortoise shell glasses, brown hair braided into a bun, and sat one George Eliot thesis short of a Harvard PhD.
"The Oregonian" has called "Most Outrageous" "the most powerful book" of 2008. "The Comics Reporter" put it on its Top Ten list. And "First of the Mont
...is a must read for anyone interested in bookstores, Berkeley or Telegraph Ave. It's a gossipy, anecdote-rich history of Moe's, Shakespeare's, Cody's, Shabhalla, Black Oak -- and side trips into t
In David Halberstam’s chapter on Grace Metalious in "The Fifties," I learned that "Return to Peyton Place" had been doctored into publishable health by Warren Miller.
A friend asks if I know anything about firstwriter.com. (I don't.) For a fee, it will supposedly connect you to agents most suited for your manuscript and seems to work like an old computer datin
I will be selling and signing my books November 29, 10:00 am to 5:00 pm at the 11th Annual Artisan Faire in the ballroom of the Claremont Hotel, 41 Tunnel Road, Berkeley. Mention Red Room and get a
Owning an old Mustang, a woman interviewed in the Chronicle once said, "Is a good way to meet a different class of people. Like tatooed ex-felons." I have standing offers to buy mine
