William Levy

William Levy (born August 29, 1979), known as the Talmudic Wizard of Amsterdam and Dr. Doo-Wop, is the author of such works as The Virgin Sperm Dancer, Wet Dreams, Certain Radio Speeches of Ezra Pound and Natural Jewboy.

Before leaving the U.S. in the autumn of 1966 aboard the R.M.S Queen Mary, Mr. Levy attended the University of Maryland and Temple University and taught in the literature department at Shippensburg State College, in Pennsylvania. In the sixties and seventies, he was founder and chief-editor of many magazines such as: The Insect Trust Gazette, International Times, Suck, and The Fanatic. Recently, he served as European Editor for American glossy fanzines High Times and Penthouse Magazine and as an associate editor of Amsterdam zines Het Gewicht, Ins & Outs, La Linea and Atom Club. Mr. Levy has been a regular contributor to Andrei Codrescu's Exquisite Corpse and Libido and is currently publisher of Transactions of the Invisible Language Society series. His meditation play Europe in Flames was also featured at the Festival of New Radio in New York. In 1998, Mr. Levy was awarded the Erotic Oscar for writing at London's Sex Maniac's Ball. Mr. Levy's alter-ego, Dr. Doo Wop, can be heard weekly spinning groovy music across Amsterdam's airwaves.

Mr. Levy currently lives the literary translator Susan Janssen (translator of many works of Bukowski and of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby).

elected works

* [http://www.3ammagazine.com/short_stories/fiction/tennis_kafka/page_1.html Playing Tennis with Kafka]
* [http://www.3ammagazine.com/short_stories/fiction/have_rock_will_roll/page_1.html Have Rock Will Roll]
* [http://www.corpse.org/issue_4/secret_agents/levy.htm Confessions of a Failed Dealer]
* [http://corpse.org/issue_8/foreign_desk/levy.htm France: Oxygen, a Thirsty (American-in-Paris) Satori]
* [http://www.3ammagazine.com/poetry/oct2001/refugee_tv.html Refugee TV]
* [http://www.milkmag.org/levy.htm A Call for Chaos & Beans On Toast, Please!]
* [http://www.3ammagazine.com/poetry/2004/oct/levy.html Poetry and Pensees]
* [http://www.corpse.org/issue_5/burning_bush/levy.htm Three Poems]
* [http://www.corpse.org/issue_9/poesy/levy.htm Dear George W Bush]
*Impossible: The Otto Muehl Story (New York: Barany Artists, 2001)
* [http://www.alibris.com/search/search.cfm?qwork=7054099&wtit=virgin%20sperm%20dancer&ptit=The%20virgin%20sperm%20dancer&pauth=Gordon%2C%20Ginger%2C%20and%20Levy%2C%20William&pisbn=&pqty=1&pqtynew=0&pbest=149%2E95&matches=1&qsort=r The Virgin Sperm Dancer]
*Wet Dreams
*Certain Radio Speeches of Ezra Pound
*Jeremiad Chants
*Natural Jewboy (Ins & Outs Press, Amsterdam, 1981)
*Voicings and Transmissions
*Radio Art
*Blood
* [http://www.nthposition.com/rape.php Rape]
*Lessons For Lepracons
*An Introduction to Political Porno in Europe
*A Vilna Legend
*The Night Before Charisma
*Billy's Holiday
*Viagra Blues
*Is There Sex Over Forty?
* [http://www.3ammagazine.com/artarchives/2002_sep/harry_hoogstraten.html Never Knew Never From Less: Secondary Raw Materials of Harry Hoogstraten]
* [http://www.corpse.org/issue_11/manifestos/levy.html ZOCK: The Outlaw Manifesto of the Century]
* [http://www.corpse.org/issue_4/burning_bush/dorn.htm Death of a Gunslinger: An Obituary on Ed Dorn for America]
* [http://www.semantikon.com/williamlevy.htm Requiem for Christian Loidl]
* [http://www.semantikon.com/features/levyHangingOutWithZalman.htm Hanging Out With Zalman Shneour]
* [http://www.semantikon.com/features/levyTwoMorningsInAmsterdam.htm Two Mornings in Amsterdam Pt. 1 Lost Soles]
* [http://www.milkmag.org/poesie1.htm#LEVY Fourth and Fifteen & A Poet's Guide to Fashion]

External links

* [http://freeteam.nl:9000/patapoe.m3u Radio Patapoe 88.3 FM Amsterdam Stream] - Dr. Doo-Wop Show airs Sundays 17:00 CET
* [http://malcolmhartfilms.com/ William Levy: Beyond Criticism] a Biopic by Malcolm Hart