Robert Levin

Who is Robert Levin?

Robert Levin is an American writer of fiction and essays.

The author of When Pacino’s Hot, I’m Hot: A Miscellany of Stories & Commentary, The Drill Press, he is also the co-author and coeditor, respectively, of two collections of essays about jazz and rock in the 1960s: Music & Politics, World Publishing, and Giants of Black Music, Da Capo Press.

In addition, his fiction and essays have appeared in a number of collections, including: Twenty-Minute Fandangoes and Forever Changes, Best of Nuvein Fiction, the Word Riot 2003 Anthology, Unlikely Stories of the Third Kind and ...Musings on a Manic Reality.

His comedic short story, “When Pacino’s Hot, I’m Hot,” was a storySouth Million Writers Award "Notable Story" of 2004.

A staunch and sometimes bellicose defender of the Free Jazz movement of the 1960s, Levin wrote for The Village Voice, Rolling Stone, Down Beat, Metronome, American Record Guide and Jazz & Pop Magazine.

His article in The Village Voice, “200,000 Invisible Men”—in which he questioned the tactics and ultimate value of the 1963 March on Washington—drew letters to the editor for the better part of a year and was quoted and discussed in a Norman Mailer Esquire Magazine column.