Robert Levin@ABCtales.com

Robert Levin is the author of "When Pacino's Hot, I'm Hot: A Miscellany of Stories and Commentary" (The Drill Press), and the coauthor and coeditor, respectively, of two collections of essays about jazz and rock in the '60s: "Music & Politics" (World Publishing) and "Giants of Black Music." (Da Capo Press). A former contributor to the Village Voice and Rolling Stone, his fiction and more recent essays have appeared in, or on the web sites of, Absinthe Literary Review, Best of Nuvein Fiction, Cosmoetica, Eyeshot, New York Review, Sweet Fancy Moses, Underground Voices and the Word Riot 2003 Anthology.