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Paul Levinson Author Of It's Real Life: An Alternate History of The Beatles

From my list on books about rock music.

Why am I passionate about this?

Rock music has been in my blood and my soul for as long as I can remember. I’ve recorded two albums, "Twice Upon a Rhyme" (1972) and "Welcome Up: Songs of Space and Time" (2020).  My most recent novel is It’s Real Life. I’m also Professor of Communication and Media Studies at Fordham University, and my students will tell you that from time to time, I’ll sing a bar or two from a song in my class. A book about music is always a hard-to-resist temptation.

Paul's book list on books about rock music

Paul Levinson Why Paul loves this book

I’ve lived in New York City all of my life. I sang doo-wop in Washington Square Park in Greenwich Village when I was a teenager, and then folk rock with my group, The New Outlook.

If ever there was a time-travel ticket to a past and a place that I knew so well I could still see the sun glinting through the tree leaves, hear the din of the eateries as I walked by, and, most important, still hear the music by people vastly more famous than me, music that actually defied any given time or place, it would be David Browne's book, Talkin' Greenwich Village.  

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Aggressor by FX Holden,

It is April 1st, 2038. Day 60 of China's blockade of the rebel island of Taiwan.

The US government has agreed to provide Taiwan with a weapons system so advanced that it can disrupt the balance of power in the region. But what pilot would be crazy enough to run…

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Paul Levinson Author Of It's Real Life: An Alternate History of The Beatles

From Paul's 3 favorite reads in 2025.

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Paul's 3 favorite reads in 2025

Paul Levinson Why Paul loves this book

Condé Nast is the publisher of The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Vogue, GQ, Wired, and other iconic magazines – including, for a while, Analog, which published 15 of my science fiction stories – so this book was must reading for me, and should be the same for anyone interested in publishing in America in the last half of the 20th century.

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1 author picked Empire of the Elite as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.


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