Blog Posts for Bob Levin

How I Became a Writer (3.)

Bob Levin — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 07:08:03 -0800

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.

How I Became a Writer (2.)

Bob Levin — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 07:34:34 -0800

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.

Cheese Steak

Bob Levin — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 06:33:47 -0800

Let’s get one thing straight. The whole idea is a corruption. The Philly cheese steak is about as traditional as an aluminum Xmas tree.

How I Became a Writer (1.)

Bob Levin — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 11:59:00 -0800

Brandeis accepted me on a Thursday, April, 1960. Friday, it dropped football. I had two varsity letters. I should have read the sign.

Thanks, Terry Spears...

Bob Levin — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 14:55:43 -0800

... and Red Room. Otherwise I wouldn't've known about Google Alerts and I wouldn't've known R.C.

More Toots

Bob Levin — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 08:39:06 -0800

"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

Cometbus #51

Bob Levin — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 08:32:17 -0800

...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

Walter Tevis

Bob Levin — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 06:36:08 -0800

What do "The Hustler" and "The Man Who Fell to Earth" have in common, I used to ask. No one ever knew.

Warren Miller

Bob Levin — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 06:34:04 -0800

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.

Memoir (ii)

Bob Levin — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 06:35:52 -0800

To continue our recent discussion...