David Samuel Levinson's Blog

And speaking of migration…

Please go to www.davidsamuellevinson.com/ramblings for more blog posts as I’m retiring this Wordpress site…Thanks for visiting, reading, and following!Filed under: personal

Emigration vs. Immigration

I am emigrating out of the WordPress community of blogs and immigrating to Weebly. You can find new blog posts here. Thank you for following.Filed under: personal

Why Is Tonight Different?

Some call them ARCs, Advance Reader’s Copies, some others galleys, and hee’s yet another iteration: AREs, Advance Reader’s Editions. No matter the word, phrase, or acronym, Tell Me How This Ends Well is advancing and in six months will be in a bookstore near you.   *Ear buds not included #preorders #hogarth #penguinrandomhouse  Filed under: personal

ARE You Ready?

Some call them ARCs, Advance Reader’s Copies, some others galleys, and here’s yet another iteration: AREs, Advance Reader’s Editions. No matter the word, phrase, or acronym, Tell Me How This Ends Well is advancing and in six months will be in a bookstore near you. *Ear buds not included #preorders #hogarth #penguinrandomhouse  Filed under: personal

To Website or not to Website

I’ve been told that we writers need websites. Well, I finally got around to updating and improving mine for the forthcoming release of my new novel, TELL ME HOW THIS ENDS WELL. Okay, so it’s still a whopping SIX months until publication, but you can still pre-order the book if you’re so moved. Before that, […]

Night

When I was a wee lad, I was a drama geek and was assigned a monologue from Elie Wiesel’s, Night, to perform. Back then, I had no idea that I’d been given this monologue b/c I was Jewish. Yeah, I know. Here’s that monologue, in part: Could one sleep here? Was it not dangerous to […]

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The Pitch

There’s no feeling quite as thrilling as getting a chance to meet a childhood hero, right? In I Am Gone Forever, that meeting, which occurs between a young, no-name writer and America’s most beloved writer of detective novels, isn’t just the start of a beautiful if troubling friendship—it also leads to murder. When Candy, the […]

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On the Road Again…Or Not.

There comes a point in every man’s life when he has to decide where he wants to live. I’ve spent the last nine years living away from NYC, though I always long to return. But the NYC I used to know—yes, cue up the elegiac tone and dirges—isn’t the place it once was, not that there’s […]

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Your Last Name’s Jewish, Isn’t It?

Yes, folks, it’s true. My last name—LEVINSON—is Jewish, in fact. The question, however, rarely comes up, or if does, it’s usually to play Jewish Geography. But a couple of weeks ago, while house window-shopping, I stopped before this adorable house in the Monte Vista section of San Antonio, Texas, and called the number listed on […]

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National Geographic Photography Contest 2016

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