A former contributor to The Village Voice and Rolling Stone, Robert Levin is the author of "When Pacino's Hot, I'm Hot, a Miscellany of Stories and Commentary" (The Drill Press), "Against Mental Health: Short Stories" (Cyberwit), The Killer and Other Stories" (Cyberwit)  and "A Robert Levin Reader: Fiction • Commentary • Jazz” (Cyberwit). He is also the coauthor and coeditor, respectively, of two collections of essays about jazz and rock in the '60s: "Music & Politics," with John Sinclair (World Publishing) and "Giants of Black Music," with Pauline Rivelli (Da Capo Press).