Influences: Norman Mailer, Ernest Becker, Alan Harrington, Amiri Baraka, Dave Barry

Robert Levin is the author of "When Pacino's Hot, I'm Hot, a Miscellany of Stories and Commentary" (The Drill Press and Kindle), "Against Mental Health: Short Stories" (Cyberwit and Kindle), "The Killer and Other Stories" (Cyberwit and Kindle),"A Robert Levin Reader: Fiction • Commentary • Jazz" (Cyberwit and Kindle) and "Going Outside: Fiction • Commentary • Jazz" (Cyberwit and Kindle). He is also the coauthor and coeditor, respectively, of two collections of essays about rock and jazz in the '60s: "Music & Politics" (World Publishing) and "Giants of Black Music" (Da Capo). His fiction and essays have appeared in numerous print and online journals, including Rolling Stone, The Village Voice and Cavalier.