Collected essays and interviews probe the meaning and style of modern Black jazz

Giants Of Black Music (Da Capo Paperback)

Arts & Photography

LEVIN, ROBERT

Rivelli, Pauline

Music

Da Capo Press

"A writer from whom I always learn something." --Nat Hentoff 'When Pacino's Hot' is the funniest story I've ever read." --Cecil Taylor As you laugh and puzzle and mostly marvel your way through this compendium of fiction and non-fiction a range of the patently absurd to the profound one thought will dominate all others: Who is this Robert Levin? Love child of Albert Camus? Adopted son of Woody Allen? A third Farrelly brother? Because this man can move you from existential angst to sophomoric guffaws at the drop of a phrase, and he is never less than convincing no matter what his emotional temperature. He is a writer of so many voices, almost all of them funny, most of them angry, some of them a little sad like his characters (not exactly top-drawer, as the celebrity doppelganger-ridden star of the title story points out about his lady conquests). But this crew of life-bitten losers has a sense of humor...and aren't we all losers, in the long run anyway? Levin has more than a few words to say on the fact that we've all been dealt the death card, and covers an astonishing amount of comic territory saying them. If it is hard to believe that a burlesque like "Peggie" comes from the same mind as the strategically brilliant "Everything's All Right in the Middle East," read on. Or read again. What every piece here has in common is an out-sized sensibility: the humor is over the top, but then, too, so is the intelligence. "Stupidity: Its Uses & Abuses" is so damn smart. "Get Your Face Out of My Cigarette!" is too smart for its own good. "Dog Days" is so smart it makes you want to cry. But between the trenchant wit and the toilet humor, you'll never lose sight of the fact that Robert Levin is one uniquely bright, talented guy who is not going gentle into that good night. It seems remarkably good luck that he is willing to take us along for the ride.

When Pacino's Hot, I'm Hot: A Miscellany of Stories & Commentary

Literature & Fiction

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

THE KILLER And Other Stories

Short Stories & Anthologies

Cyberwit.net

Med livet i hendene (Norwegian Edition)

Reference

Foreign Language Study & Reference

Cappelen

Bill Clinton (Spanish Edition)

Biographies & Memoirs

Ediciones B.

Into the Surf: 8/22 cc&d, v324

Kuypers, Janet

Diamond, Alex B.

cc&d

Leyanah, Appadoo

Huddleston, Harvey

Cartledge, Matthew

Mukerji, Uday

McGuirt, C Ra

Gigandet, Michael

Literary

Independently published

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