- Robert Levin (writer)
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portaldisp =Robert Levin (born
January 20 ,1939 , New York,New York ) is an American writer of fiction and essays.The author of "When Pacino’s Hot, I’m Hot: A Miscellany of Stories & Commentary", The Drill Press, he is also the co-author and coeditor, respectively, of two collections of essays about
jazz and rock in the 1960s: "Music & Politics" (withJohn Sinclair ), World Publishing, and "Giants of Black Music" (with Pauline Rivelli),Da Capo Press .In addition, his fiction and essays have appeared in a number of collections, including: "Twenty-Minute Fandangoes and Forever Changes" (Random House), "Best of Nuvein Fiction" and the "Word Riot 2003 Anthology".
His comedic short story, “When Pacino’s Hot, I’m Hot,” was a
StorySouth Million Writers Award Notable Story of 2004.A staunch and sometimes bellicose defender of the
Free Jazz movement of the 1960s, Levin wrote forThe Village Voice (where his regular column played a significant role in establishing an audience forCecil Taylor ),Rolling Stone , Down Beat, Metronome,American Record Guide and Jazz & Pop Magazine (of which he was Jazz Editor).His article in The Village Voice, “200,000 Invisible Men”—in which he questioned the tactics and ultimate value of the 1963
March on Washington —drew letters to the editor for the better part of a year and was quoted and discussed in aNorman Mailer Esquire Magazine column.Levin, described by
Nat Hentoff as “a writer from whom I always learn something,” also wrote some 100liner notes forBlue Note Records ,Prestige Records ,Impulse Records , United Artists, etc., and for such artists asJohn Coltrane ,Thelonious Monk ,Sonny Rollins ,Cecil Taylor andColeman Hawkins . Levin has said of his liner notes, many of which were written before he was twenty-one: “They’re all still out there and I wish I could rewrite every last one of them—especially the notes for [Coltrane’s] "Blue Train".”References
* [http://www.storysouth.com/millionwriters/2004notablestories.html StorySouth Million Writers Award Notable Stories 2004]
*Norman Mailer, "The Big Bite," Esquire, December 1963
*Nat Hentoff, Foreword, "Giants of Black Music", Da Capo Press 1971External links
* [http://www.shattercolors.com/interviews/author_levin.htm Shattercolors Author Interview]
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