"[A] hilariously satirical debut novel. Miller, Lawrence, and Genet stop by like proud ancestors... But it's a more recent generation of mischievous deviant writers (Nicholson Baker, Mary Gaitskill) that truly looms large — Erotomania's closest predecessor might be Baker's The Fermata. [An] ambitious book... [A] biting satire." —Zach Baron, Village Voice
"Sex is familiar, but it's perennial, and Levy makes it fresh." —Richard Rayner, Los Angeles Times Book Review
"Levy seems to have an eye for detail for all that is absurd, commonly human, and uniquely American." —Beth Harrington, Bookslut
"It's a great book, written with flawless verve by a tremendous fictioneer and thinker, and it deserves glory. A classic." —Andre Codrescu, Exquisite Corpse
"[Erotomania] can just as easily be a bookend to the beautifully nuanced prose of Milan Kundera as it can be a long-version story for a nudie mag minus the accompanying photographs. It's all in the context — as it is with most relationships." —Quarterly Conversation
"Erotomania wields a comedic punch that makes it, above all, a fun novel to read." —Nerve.com
Erotomania is an absurdist portrait of a modern-day romance. It follows James and Monica from their early days as couple that is forced to move into a nuclear fall-out bunker so their explosive sex life doesn’t physically harm their neighbors, down the long journey to marriage counseling.
Francis Levy’s short stories, criticism, humor, and poetry have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The New Republic, The Village Voice, and The Quarterly.

Erotomania: A Romance

Literature & Fiction

Levy, Francis

Humor & Satire

Two Dollar Radio

Vestigia

Francis X. Levy is one of the most prolific and protean writers of the experience of Christian faith. His knowledge is vast, his eye is tender and watchful of the human detail, and his skill at communication makes his work a gift on the journey toward holiness. Father John F. Schweikert, M.S.C. - Associate Retreat Director Francis Levy’s autobiography Vestigia reveals a life given to prayer in face of the mysterious ways of God whether joyous or sorrowful. He has written, not to extol his virtues - although they shine from these pages - but to encourage others that in life, the answer to every situation is prayer. Patricia Treece - Author of various books on saints and mysticism, including A Man for Others, Nothing Short of a Miracle, Meet Padre Pio, Mornings with Thérèse of Lisieux and Through the Year with Padre Pio. A Southerner from birth, Francis Levy lived through the Depression and saw first-hand the horrors of segregation - a rule of life that was commonplace and held sacred by many, but which Levy never accepted. Government programs and the outbreak of World War II brought the Depression to a rapid conclusion, but young Francis was thrust into the teeth of the war. An era of economic progress ensued, but the Korean War soon called Levy back to military service. Through hardship, five years of active service, and engineering jobs with leading governmental contractors, Francis Levy lived his faith and relied on the power of prayer to serve his needs. More than the story of one life, Levy’s spiritual memoir powerfully illustrates the efficacy of prayer, through many stories of subtle and miraculous answers. About the Author Francis Xavier Levy was born in New Orleans, Louisiana on June 10, 1925, the fifth of nine children. A graduate of Loyola University with a Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics, he was a Naval officer during two wars and an engineer in civilian life. Through all the turmoil, Levy’s Roman Catholic faith has always been his life.

Contemporary

Aeon Pub Inc

Colorful episodes of real life give encounters with life threatening dangers and everyday experiences as Francis Levy traces his "Footsteps" from early childhood. An unusual memory for detail is the tool used by the author to bring about graphic drama.

Literary

A personal story of life in the South during the depression and amidst the horrors of segregation: a rule of life that was commonplace and held sacred by many. With governmental program innovations and the outbreak of World War II, this depression came to a rapid conclusion and an era of economic progress ensued. Soon, however, the Korean War brought the writer back into military service. The Cold War then fostered the development of weapons of defense and provided personal and widespread employment.

Biographies & Memoirs

Leaders & Notable People

Llumina Press

Tombstone: Not a Western is a comic novel about the funerary business. It begins with its two protagonists, Robert and Marsha Bernstein, making their arrangements. Cremation versus interment are debated with a mortician at a prominent Manhattan funeral home. Wills and trusts are complicated by a financial scandal which lands Robert and Marsha at El Rancho de Campo, an all-inclusive resort in Tombstone, Arizona, catering to those whose concerns lie with the afterlife and where graveyards and golf courses collide. Comedy and spirituality go hand in hand as Robert and Marsha haplessly negotiate their way to the hereafter.

Tombstone: Not a Western

Black Rose Writing

The Kafka Studies Department

From Francis Levy, author of Seven Days in Rio, which The New York Times called "a fever dream of a novel," comes The Kafka Studies Department, a highly original collection of short, parable-like stories infused with dark humor, intellect, and insight about the human condition. While the book's style is deceptively simple and aphoristic, it carries a hallucinatory moral message. A prism of interconnected and intertwined tales, inspired by Kafka, the stories examine feckless central characters who are far from likable, but always recognizable and wildly human. 
"Knowledge is not power, power is not power. Life is irrational or accidental or both. We drift victims, victimizers. A collection for our time." 
-Joan Baum, NPR\n"A collection of bleak and amusing literary short stories from Levy...A dark, sometimes funny, meditation on the absurd trials of life." 
-Kirkus Reviews\n"Francis Levy has an unhampered, endearingly maverick imagination-as if Donald Barthelme had met up with Maimonides and, together, they decided to write about the world as it appeared to them. These deceptively simple and parable-like stories are full of wily pleasures and irreverent wisdom about everything from the failure of insight to make anything happen, to the subtle gratifications of friendship, to the tragicomedy of eros."-Daphne Merkin, author of This Close to Happy and 22 Minutes of Unconditional Love 
"Francis Levy's fiction is knowing but never instructive. His characters inhabit a twilight zone where the lines blur between dream and waking, familiar and surreal, inevitability and surprise." -Rocco Landesman, Broadway producer and former Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts\n"The Kafka Studies Department is not about academia. It's about anomie, and...what's really going on with people. Of course (since it's Levy) it's about sex. Kafka's shadow is everywhere." -David Kirkpatrick, journalist and author of The Facebook Effect\n"A startling collection of thirty literary gems deftly illustrated by Hallie Cohen into dreamy sketches, which perfectly suit the tone of the work. Initially it seems like these stories are fed into a kind of a magical Kafka Cuisinart where they come out tightly sealed, hilariously ironic, and occasionally mysterious...modern parables that have the makings of mini-masterpieces." -Arthur Nersesian, author of The Five Books of Moses and The Fuck-Up

Heliotrope Books LLC

Humor & Entertainment

Humor

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Erotomania: A Romance

Vestigia

Vestigia

Vestigia

Tombstone: Not a Western

The Kafka Studies Department

The Kafka Studies Department