David Samuel Levinson's Blog, page 3
July 27, 2015
Launch!
While over at Dutch Kills Press, this groovy, relatively new publisher of New York City’s finest quality artisanal e-books, the launch of summer 2015 has finally arrived. I’m excited to be part of such luminous company, including Dan Friedman, Mark Heppner, Alex Kudera (no relation to Milan Kundera because there’s no en), and Amy Park. DKP is owned […]
Filed under: personal
July 24, 2015
July 23, 2015
Wayward Pines!
Okay, I don’t say this lightly. Wayward Pines, that show by that kinda, sorta director, who made that creepy blockbuster film with Bruce Willis, who plays a dead guy, well, it’s kinda, sorta great and the director kinda, sorta has redeemed himself for all of the flops he’s made because the ending to WP is […]
Filed under: personal
July 20, 2015
Gabby’s Gazpacho
Gabby, a good friend of mine in Brooklyn, made gazpacho while I was visiting back in May, and I’ve been hooked on the stuff ever since. So much so that I went out today, bought a blender, and all the ingredients. Now, I have a pitcher of gazpacho cooling in my fridge and tonight, when it’s […]
Filed under: personal
July 19, 2015
Harper Lee & The Doomsday Machine
Let me take you back to 1960, to the publication of To Kill A Mockingbird (TKAM), which went on to win the Pulitzer Prize a year later. Clearly, these were different times and Ms. Lee, a native Alabaman, had no earthly idea just how quickly or how meteorically she’d rise to fame. So much, too much, […]
Filed under: personal
July 17, 2015
Meet Colin, Bernadette, and an Aboriginal Dwarf Named Boris
Read a new short story, an e-single, “What Possessed Us?”, on any of your devices when you buy a copy directly from Dutch Kills Press, an independent ebook publisher out of NYC. You can also buy your digital copy from iBooks and/or Amazon. (See how I used and/or there, as if you’re literally going to buy it from both places? Well…) Reviews […]
Filed under: personal
July 15, 2015
Mockingbird vs. Mockingjay: Literature vs. Trash
I loved To Kill a Mockingbird. I still do. It sits atop the mountain of great southern literature, a beacon lighting the way through the darker valleys of that region’s historical intolerance and violent racism. Like most Americans, I read it when I was a student, not because I wanted to but because it had been assigned. And while I don’t […]
Filed under: personal, publishing, writing Tagged: Go Set a Watchman, Harper Lee, Mockingjay, To Kill a Mockingbird
July 13, 2015
The Great Barrier
Vulnerable. What a bizarre-looking word, huh? Most of the time, we think about it in the negative and according to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary (see below), there’s not a lot to recommend it. Yet how often do we complain that our significant others aren’t “vulnerable enough,” that they never “let their guards down.” I know people […]
Filed under: personal
July 12, 2015
DFW vs DFW
July 11, 2015
The Art of Living in Austin
The art of living in Austin is to stop and smell the century plants. Also, to sit outside under a cool, refreshing mist and eat pho and drink a glass of spiked ginger lemonade and sparkling rosé with a friend and talk books and writing while the traffic on S 1st St. barrels by and […]
Filed under: personal, Texas musings Tagged: austin, ban mi, books, bun, elizabeth St., friends, texas
