When Pacino’s Hot, I’m Hot: A Miscellany of Stories & Commentary
The Drill Press LLC
ISBN: 978-0-9840961-1-4
Paperback/152 Pages/$15
From the cover copy:
“Gosh, he’s a bloody good writer! Verbose but hilarious. His stories present a mad, vulgar, dysfunctional world that the author flounders around in. Great entertainment.” — Harold Nawy
A compendium of fiction and non-fiction by a humorist sui generis: ironist, satirist, realist, burlesque comic—yes, all from the same author, this Robert Levin who gleefully fingers the absurdities of life with trenchant wit and daunting intelligence. His voices are many and varied and ultimately balanced: the cynicism of “Everything’s All Right In the Middle East” leavened by the belly laughs of “Peggie,” the raw sensibility of “Spinning the Wheel of the Quivering Meat Conception” lightened by the surprising sweetness of the title story. Scathing examinations of self-destructiveness give way to redemption (of sorts) in “Dog Days.” Finally, there is the sadder but wiser “Free Jazz,” illuminating the ’60s with piercing intellect and hardly a guffaw to be found. And so a writer, perfectly willing to offend if that’s what it takes to be funny and make his point, turns out to please in a myriad of ways. A collection to laugh with and wonder at.
“A writer from whom I always learn something.” – Nat Hentoff
“‘Peggie’ is the funniest and rudest thing I’ve read in years, and “Dog Days” is just extraordinary…original and disturbing.” – Tony Cook
“‘When Pacino’s Hot’ is the funniest story I’ve ever read.” – Cecil Taylor
“Levin may possibly be the master of the rant.” – Elizabeth Richardson on “Stupidity: Its Uses & Abuses”
“Heavy and brilliant.” – Douglas Rushkoff on “Everything’s All Right in the Middle East”
Includes:
“When Pacino’s Hot, I’m Hot”
“Peggie (or Sex With a Very Large Woman)”
“Arena”
“Dog Days”
“Spinning the Wheel of the Quivering Meat Conception”
“The Author”
“Stupidity: Its Uses & Abuses”
“Recycle This!“
“Get Your Face Out of My Cigarette!”
“Redefining Insurance Fraud”
“No Stars for the Eclipse”
“Everything’s All Right in the Middle East”
“On Turning Sixty”
“Free Jazz: The Jazz Revolution of the ’60s”
When Pacino’s Hot, I’m Hot is available from Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble as a paperback and as a Kindle and a NOOK Book.
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