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@paullev.bsky.social

author 20bks: media/politics, scifi novels; prof Fordham U; podcaster;singer-songwriter; I had sign that said a neat desk is sign of a sick mind, but I lost it

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Paul Levinson interviews Brooklyn Demme about His Role in One Battle After Another, and More
YouTube video by Paul Levinson Paul Levinson interviews Brooklyn Demme about His Role in One Battle After Another, and More

my interview this afternoon with Brooklyn Demme about his role in One Battle After Another, and more youtu.be/7VkjzYy51iQ

29.10.2025 21:13 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Kathryn Bigelow Responds to Pentagon Criticism of β€˜A House of Dynamite’: β€œI Just State the Truth” (Exclusive) The Oscar-winning filmmaker speaks with The Hollywood Reporter alongside screenwriter Noah Oppenheim about the film emerging as an instant hit on Netflix, what she learned from the debate around 'Zero...

The Hollywood Reporter says the real Pentagon, our current Pentagon, in real life not on the screen, didn’t like A House Of Dynamite www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie... That in itself makes it worthwhile to see the movie. (Here's my review paullev.substack.com/p/review-of-...)

29.10.2025 05:18 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Want to know Paul Levinson's Top 3 Books of 2025? Paul's top 3 reads of 2025 include The Digital Reversal and two other amazing books. Discover what makes these books unmissable!

It was a tough choice, but here are my three favorite reads of 2025 that Shepherd Books asked me to provide shepherd.com/bboy/2025/f/...

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Review of "A House of Dynamite" MAD -- Mutually Assured Destruction -- In Our Day and Age

my review of A House of Dynamite on Substack paullev.substack.com/p/review-of-...

27.10.2025 16:25 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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A House of Dynamite: MAD -- Mutually Assured Destruction -- In Our Day and Age I grew up in a world in which Dr. Strangelove was a plausible movie, a world in which we lived with the Soviet Union, armed to the teeth wi...

review of A House of Dynamite paullevinson.blogspot.com/2025/10/a-ho...

27.10.2025 03:14 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Review of 'Task' Love and Death

I thought Task, a limited series that concluded last week, was such a uniquely powerful series, I posted my non-spoiler review on Substack substack.com/home/post/p-...

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Slow Horses 5.1-5.5: Blasting On All Cylinders Based on the first five of six episodes of the fifth season of Slow Horses , I think it's in the running for being the best season so far.Β  ...

review of #SlowHorses 5.1-5.5 paullevinson.blogspot.com/2025/10/slow...

25.10.2025 16:37 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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So relevant to our country and world today, I put this review (first published in 2021) of Andrey Mir's book up on Substack paullev.substack.com/p/review-of-...

21.10.2025 19:25 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Tenure-Track: Assistant Professor of Media Policy and Platform Governance - New York City, New York (US) job with Fordham University | 37889443 Assistant Professor of Media Policy and Platform Governance, Dept. of Communication and Media Studies at Fordham, the Jesuit University of New York

Tenure-Track: Assistant Professor of Media Policy and Platform Governance position open at Fordham University. Deadline for applications: 11:59 PM (Eastern time) November 3rd, 2025. Apply here jobs.chronicle.com/job/37889443...

22.10.2025 21:33 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Here’s a 1960’s hit that most everyone of a certain age remembers from that era, but you might not have heard THIS version. I hadn’t unti... Here’s a 1960’s hit that most everyone of a certain age remembers from that era, but you might not have heard THIS version. I hadn’t until just a few minutes ago. This is Pleasant Valley Sunday, but ...

Just came across this on Quora: Carole King singing a demo of "Pleasant Valley Sunday" in 1966, a song she wrote with her husband Gerry Goffin, a year before The Monkees had a smash hit with it in 1967 qr.ae/pCKB5T

22.10.2025 01:46 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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So relevant to our country and world today, I put this review (first published in 2021) of Andrey Mir's book up on Substack paullev.substack.com/p/review-of-...

21.10.2025 19:25 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Review of "One Battle After Another" More Than Timely and Powerful and Quirky

I thought One Battle After Another was a combination of so important and so enjoyable that I posted my review on Substack paullev.substack.com/p/review-of-...

20.10.2025 17:19 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Task: Love and Death Task concluded its seven-episode first season on HBO Max tonight -- and I hope it is the first of more than one season, because the series ...

review of Task paullevinson.blogspot.com/2025/10/task...

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One Battle After Another: More Than Timely and Powerful My son (Simon Vozick-Levinson, Deputy Music Editor at Rolling Stone ) invited me to see One Battle After Another with him (he wanted to see...

my review of One Battle After Another paullevinson.blogspot.com/2025/10/one-...

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Review of "The Diplomat" Season 3 Thriller in More Ways Than One

I liked season 3 of The Diplomat so much, I put my review up on Substack paullev.substack.com/p/review-of-...

18.10.2025 21:38 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The Diplomat season 3: Thriller in More Ways Than One My wife and I just finishing bingeing the 8the episode of The Diplomat season 3 on Netflix.Β  I thought this third season was the best seaso...

review of #TheDiplomat Season 3 paullevinson.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-...

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Head of the U.S. Military’s Southern Command Is Stepping Down, Officials Say

I never imagined that half of a title of a great Paul McCartney song would come to life! www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/u...

17.10.2025 22:01 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Review of David Browne's "Talkin' Greenwich Village" Cornucopic Rainbow Biography

All in one place on Substack: my review of David Browne's "Talkin' Greenwich Village"; my subsequent interview with David; my 1977 "radio documentary" w/ Joshua Meyrowitz about Phil Ochs discussed w/ David open.substack.com/pub/paullev/...

17.10.2025 17:50 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Slipping Time Sometimes Tripping in the Rain Can Be Very Helpful

Up on Substack: a wet New York story substack.com/home/post/p-...

17.10.2025 15:37 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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my Substack review of Andrey Mir's Digital Reversal

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House of Guinness: Bracing, Refreshing, Satisfying I binged House of Guinness the past few nights.Β  I'm not a drinker, but I thought the 8-episode series on Netflix was outstanding. It tells...

review of House of Guinness paullevinson.blogspot.com/2025/10/hous...

16.10.2025 17:50 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Review of Andrey Mir's 'The Digital Reversal' Media, Social Media, AI, and the Fate of Humanity

#ICYMI my review of @andrey4mir.bsky.social's new book substack.com/home/post/p-...

15.10.2025 21:03 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The Medium Picture The Medium Picture - Kindle edition by Christopher, Roy, McLuhan, Andrew. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading The Medium Picture.

Published today! Highly recommended! Roy Christopher's The Medium Picture @roychristopher.com www.amazon.com/dp/B0F1Z1HY3...

15.10.2025 15:41 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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TW552 - Bye Turd!

Brief discussion of @sarahclarkesy.bsky.social's novel Song of the Unsung Mushroom at 22min 14secs into the Trivial Warfare podcast. open.spotify.com/episode/24rv... (Novel to be published by Connected Editions 15 January 2026; pre-order the Kindle edition here www.amazon.com/dp/B0FPXSW36... )

14.10.2025 22:07 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Hey, if you're a member of the Harvard Club of New York City, you can catch Tom Cooper talking about his book, Wisdom Weavers: The Lives and Thought of Harold Innis and Marshall McLuhan, 7pm-8pm, tomorrow (Tuesday) night via Zoom. The program is FREE but you need to register.

13.10.2025 22:27 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Paul Levinson Paul Levinson recorded (The Other Voices) for Atlantic Records in 1968. In 1972, he released Twice Upon a Rhyme on HappySad Records. Big Pink, Vivid & Whiplash all re-issued the LP, 2008- 2012. Old ...

Sprucing up my Bandcamp -- new digital tracks and new merch (vinyl, CDs, paperback novels) paullevinson.bandcamp.com

12.10.2025 15:18 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Important new book about humans in space by Deana Weibel

12.10.2025 01:17 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Welcome Up: Songs of Space and Time, by Paul Levinson 8 track album

Welcome Up: Songs of Space and Time now up on @bandcamp.com paullevinson.bandcamp.com/album/welcom...

08.10.2025 20:38 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The American Gestapo agent who fired that weapon should be charged with assault, and in the trial given the maximum sentence.

08.10.2025 04:07 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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