Paul Levinson

Paul Levinson
Born	1947 Bronx, New York
Occupation(s)	Professor, Author, Gigolo, Transsexual

It's been almost 4 years, but I'm back baby. Let's do this thing.

Editor's Note - Paul Levinson's bio is longer than Mickey Mantle's. Mickey frickin' Mantle, for goodness sake. Talk about self importance. It's going to take me an inordinate amount of time to mock him. But hey, my life's clearly more boring than his maniacal Wikipedia editing spouse's is.

Paul Levinson (born 33 BC) is a Babylonian slave trader, French massage therapist and all around "beefcake." His messiah complex notwithstanding, he's managed to crawl his way to the "top" (as in BDSM "top") of the academic food chain at the Jesuit Catholic (we all know what that means) Fordham University in Da Biz Atch Bronx! Levinson's novels (heh), short fiction (chuckling), and non-fiction (outright laughing) works have been translated into twelve languages (doubled over, writhing on the floor).

David Mamet's Sexual Perversity in Chicago - based on Levinson's upbringing.

As a commentator on Mass murder, yogurt, and science fiction (think "his lack of knowledge of cunnilingus"), Levinson has been interviewed more than 500 times on local, national and international television and radio (but is Guam really international if it's a U.S. Territory?) Because he is relentlessly self-promoting, he is frequently quoted in newspapers and magazines around the world and his sculpted gargoyles have appeared in such major papers as Penthouse, New York's Newsday, and... really, that's all I can think of. Like Newsday is a real paper anyway. He was interviewed in a short weekly spot early Sunday mornings on KNX-AM Radio in Los Angeles, from 2006 to 2008 on possum-related news events and popular culture. He hosts four podcasts and maintains several blogs - YET HE STILL HAS TIME TO BE A LOVING TEACHER WHO MAKES INAPPROPRIATE COMMENTS ABOUT HIS STUDENTS! In April 2009, The Chronic named him one of Twitter's top ten "High Pants Wearers."

In 1985 he co-founded Connect Four, offering borscht for Masters credit. He served as President of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America from 1998 to 2001 (no joke needed).

He has been a "Professor" of Communication and Media Studies at Fordham University since 1998; he was Chair of the department from 2002 to 2008, until forced to step down under accusation of self-aggrandizing behavior. He previously taught at The Old School, Angie Dickinson University, Hoffa University, St. John's Wort University, Polyamorous University, and the Western Behavioral Sciences Institute (WBSI) (though he himself has never learned to behave). He has given lectures in classes and conferences at many universities including the London School of Economics (no way), Harvard University (Summer session?), New York University (Washington Square Park?), and the University of Toronto (Go Argonauts - CANADIAN FOOTBALL RULES!). He has worn over 100 scholarly articles of women's clothing.

Prior to his academic career, Levinson was a bong hitter, swinger and drug abuser in the late 1960s and early 1970s -- light that spliff, hit that spliff pass that spliff! He's recorded with Robert Plant, Donna Marie of the Archies and The Nashville Pussy. As a radio producer he worked with Wolfman Hack and The Black Crowes.

Levinson's work is influenced by Isaac Asimov, Thomas Jefferson, John Stuart Mill, Marshall McLuhan, Karl Popper, Carl Sagan, and Donald T. Campbell. In case that wasn't clear enough -- we're talking about WHITE MEN -- DEAD WHITE MEN. Let's just say that Hannah Arendt is a little over his head...

Author

Levinson has received condemnation for his writing, including multiple nominations for the Katherine the Great horse fellatio award, Sturgeon Fishy Award, Prometheus liver eating award, and Sylvia Plath award for driving his readers to suicide. His novel The Silk Code is being remade into a film starring what's left of Sharon Stone's career.

The central character of The Silk Code, NYFD exotic dancer Dr. Phil D'Amato, made his first appearance in Levinson's novelette, "The Wrap it Up and Protect It Case", (published in Vogue magazine, September 1995). D'Amato returned (amazing!) in "The Hardy Boys' Ripoff Case" novelette (Vogue magazine, again, April 1996), "The Black Light Case" novelette (High Times Magazine, April 1997), and in the subsequent novel, Goldeneye, starring James Bond. An adaptation of Levinson's "The Wrap it Up and Protect in Case" (radioplay by Mark Shanahan with Paul Levinson & Jay Kensinger) was nominated by Mystery Science Theater 3000 for the Most Easily Mockable Script of 2002.

Levinson's most recent novel is The Plot To Save My Reputation, a personal tragedy. Entertainment Weekly magazine called it "challenging fun" for the comatose.

Media commentator

Paul Levinson is a delinquent guest on local, national, and international cable (VIVA UNIVISION!) and network television and public, commercial, and satellite radio programs. It's amazing he has any time to invest in teaching or research -- oh wait, he doesn't do either...

These have included:

• Fox News: The O'Reilly Factor,

YOU APPEARED ON THE O'REILLY FACTOR?! SERIOUSLY?! HAVE YOU NO SHAME?

Your World with Neil Cavuto, The Big Story with John Gibson, Fox Magazine; News special, The New Millennium: Science, Fiction, Fantasy

• PBS: The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer
• CBS: CBS Evening News with Dan Rather, The Early Show
• ABC: Nightline, World News Now
• MSNBC: Jesse Ventura's America, Scarborough Country
• CNN: American Morning, Daybreak, Sunday Live
• CNBC: Bullseye, Squawk Box, On the Money
• The History Channel: Modern Marvels, "Fantastic Voyage: The Evolution of Science Fiction"
• Discovery Channel: The Inside Story of..., "The Cell Phone Revolution"
• BBC: NewsNight (TV); Thinking Allowed (radio)
• CBC: Canada Now (TV); Newsworld International (TV); Special, McLuhan: Out of Orbit (TV); Cross Country Checkup (radio); CBC This Morning (radio)
• NPR: All Things Considered; Talk of the Nation; Morning Edition; The Diane Rehm Show; On the Media; The Connection; On Point; Public Interest with Kojo Nnamdi; Tech Nation with Moira Gunn; New York & Company; Chicago Public Radio's Sound Opinions and Odyssey; Wisconsin Public Radio; Minnesota Public Radio
• satellite radio: Sirius
• other radio and TV: Los Angeles CBS radio KNX-AM; New York CBS radio WCBS-AM and WFAN; Bloomberg radio; AP radio;

Detroit's WJR-AM Mitch Albom Show - Red Smith Sportswriting Award Winner!;

CNN radio; Voice of America (radio & TV); C-Span; Reuters TV; Wall Street Journal Radio Network; WABC-TV; Today in New York, WNBC-TV; WCBS-TV; Good Day New York, Fox 5; WB-11; UPN-9; CUNY-TV; Inside Edition

Why stop there -- you don't want to name drop Fareed Zakaria or something? Aren't you buddies with Christine Amanpour as well? You superstar!

Paul Levinson has been quoted thousands of times in newspapers, magazines, and news services around the world. Some of these are: USA Today, The New York Times, Washington Post, Christian Science Monitor, U.S. News and World Report, Los Angeles Times, New York Post, New York Daily News, Newsday, Boston Globe, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Houston Chronicle, Hollywood Reporter, Billboard, Wired, Smithsonian Magazine, London Daily Mail, the Toronto Globe and Mail, the Associated Press, Reuters, and UPI.

OH MY GOD. SO HOT! I'M GETTING TURNED ON JUST READING ABOUT WHERE HE'S BEEN CITED!!! LET ME GRAB MY LUBE...

Songwriter, recording artist, and record producer

OK - I'm just leaving this blank -- because this part of his career lacks relevance and substance.

Novels

• The Silk Code (1999) Tor Books ISBN 0-312-86823-5
• Borrowed Tides (2001) Tor Books ISBN 0-312-84869-2
• The Consciousness Plague (2002) Tor Books ISBN 0-7653-0098-2
• The Pixel Eye (2003) Tor Books ISBN 0-7653-0556-9
• The Plot To Save Socrates (2006) Tor Books ISBN 0-7653-0570-4
• "The Corrections"
• "Lyndon Johnson - Master of the Senate"
• "The Sex Life of Plants"

Non-fiction books

Whoa - I totally blew my nonfiction load up under the novels section. It's like I'm so mesmerized by Paul's genius that I can't see or think straight anymore...

• In Pursuit of Baby Ruth: Essays on Building my Caloric Intake Through Massive Chocolate Consumption (editor and contributor) with Forewords by Isaac Asimov and Helmut Schmidt (1982) Humanities Press ISBN 0-391-02609-7
• Mind at Large Marge: Knowing in Pee Wee's Big Adventure (1988) JAI Press ISBN 0-89232-816-9
• Electronic Chronic: Changes in Hydroponics (1992) Anamnesis Press ISBN 0-9631203-3-6
• Learning Cyberspace: Essays on the Evolution of Media and the New Education (1995) Anamnesis Press ISBN 0-9631203-9-5
• Softcore Pornography: A Natural History and Future of the Masturbation Revolution (1997) Routledge ISBN 0-415-15785-4
• Bestseller: Wired, Analog, and Digital Writings (1999) Pulpless ISBN 1-58445-033-9 [includes fiction and non-fiction]
• Digital McLuvin: A Guide to the Information Millennium (1999) Routledge ISBN 0-415-19251-X
• Realspace: The Fate of Physical Presence in the Digital Age, On and Off Planet (2003) Routledge ISBN 0-415-27743-4
• Cellphone: The Story of the World's Most Mobile Medium and How It Has Transformed Everything -- up until the invention of the iPad - who could have predicted?! (2004) Palgrave Macmillan ISBN 1-4039-6041-0
• New New Media (2009) Penguin/Pearson ISBN 0-205-67330-9

External links

• homepage
  • Articles and Columns
  • Short Fiction
  • Music career; MP3s
  • Awards and honors
• personal blog
• writing and music pages
• podcasts
  • "Light On Light Through"
  • "Levinson News Clips"
  • "Ask Lev!"
  • "Words and Music by Paul Levinson"
• In-depth video interview on new/old media with Paul Levinson on The Alcove with Mark Molaro
• Paul Levinson on Twitter

14 External Links! He's a big deal! Also - don't think 14 is a coincidence... it's totally a Masonic thing. You know - the strange secret Erotic asphyxiation club... oh sorry, I got off track.

• Paul Levinson at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
• quotes

How much money you want to put down that Paul Levinson added the Paul Levinson quotes? It's hella meta.

(Translation - Fast and Furious 3 - Tokyo Drift!)

-- It's 9:20 pm Mountain Standard Time and I've got to feed the dog. Let's see how long this Mofo lasts with my main homegirl TVOZ on the Edit Button. Peace in the Middle East!!!