PaulLev
@paullev.bsky.social
author 20bks: media/politics, scifi novels; prof Fordham U; podcaster;singer-songwriter; I had sign that said a neat desk is sign of a sick mind, but I lost it
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Across the What-If Universe: Paul Levinson On His Novel ‘It’s Real Life: An Alternate History of The Beatles’
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#ICYMI -- Talking about my novel, It's Real Life: An Alternate History of The Beatles in March 2025 on Christy Alexander Hallberg's Rock Is Lit podcast open.spotify.com/episode/5eNi...
review of Stranger Things finale paullevinson.blogspot.com/2025/12/stra...
Stranger Things Finale: El's Fate
So I just saw the Stranger Things series finale -- on Netflix. Here's a critique -- with spoilers. The whole ending hinges on El no longer...
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January 1, 2026 at 4:06 AM
review of Stranger Things finale paullevinson.blogspot.com/2025/12/stra...
One of my students Robert Nwadiaru from a course just finished at Fordham University has some "praise" for Trump, keeping his word about going after terrorists in Nigeria, but not really doing such a good job bobwaddy.wordpress.com/2025/12/28/p...
President Donald Trump Keeps his Words. Stikes Islamic Terrorists Cells in Nigeria.
The president of the United States of America, Donald J. Trump ordered the US Africa Command (AFRICOM) to bomb Islamic jihadists’ cells in Sokoto, Northwest of Nigeria. President Donald Trump. The …
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December 31, 2025 at 4:07 AM
One of my students Robert Nwadiaru from a course just finished at Fordham University has some "praise" for Trump, keeping his word about going after terrorists in Nigeria, but not really doing such a good job bobwaddy.wordpress.com/2025/12/28/p...
Interviewed about the Top Ten media stories of 2025 on the Being Frank podcast earlier today, getting over a cold, with my Tallulah Bankhead voice open.spotify.com/episode/7Kk1...
Top 10 Media Stories of 2025 w/ Dr. Paul Levinson
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December 30, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Interviewed about the Top Ten media stories of 2025 on the Being Frank podcast earlier today, getting over a cold, with my Tallulah Bankhead voice open.spotify.com/episode/7Kk1...
review of Stranger Things 5.5-5.7 on Substack (w/brief discussion of the pros and cons of genre labels) paullev.substack.com/p/review-of-...
Review of "Stranger Things" 5.5-5.7
Not Science Fiction But Supernatural
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December 28, 2025 at 5:49 PM
review of Stranger Things 5.5-5.7 on Substack (w/brief discussion of the pros and cons of genre labels) paullev.substack.com/p/review-of-...
review of Stranger Things 5.5.-5.7 paullevinson.blogspot.com/2025/12/stra...
Stranger Things 5.5-5.7: Not Science Fiction But Supernatural
Well, I said in my review of Stranger Things 5.1-5.4 last month that I thought those first four episodes of the final season were the best i...
paullevinson.blogspot.com
December 28, 2025 at 3:24 AM
review of Stranger Things 5.5.-5.7 paullevinson.blogspot.com/2025/12/stra...
from Morten Flate Paulsen, Connected Education student in the 1980s, who took two of my Connect Ed courses open.spotify.com/episode/3p3c...
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December 27, 2025 at 7:47 PM
from Morten Flate Paulsen, Connected Education student in the 1980s, who took two of my Connect Ed courses open.spotify.com/episode/3p3c...
from Morten Flate Paulsen, Connected Education student in the 1980s, who took two of my Connect Ed courses open.spotify.com/episode/3p3c...
Spotify – Web Player
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December 27, 2025 at 7:46 PM
from Morten Flate Paulsen, Connected Education student in the 1980s, who took two of my Connect Ed courses open.spotify.com/episode/3p3c...
#ICYMI -- Talking about my novel, It's Real Life: An Alternate History of The Beatles in March 2025 on Christy Alexander Hallberg's Rock Is Lit podcast open.spotify.com/episode/5eNi...
Across the What-If Universe: Paul Levinson On His Novel ‘It’s Real Life: An Alternate History of The Beatles’
open.spotify.com
December 27, 2025 at 6:22 AM
#ICYMI -- Talking about my novel, It's Real Life: An Alternate History of The Beatles in March 2025 on Christy Alexander Hallberg's Rock Is Lit podcast open.spotify.com/episode/5eNi...
I'm honored to be quoted in this crucially important Op-Ed by Frank LoBuono nyacknewsandviews.com/blog/2025/12...
OP-ED
The Tiffany Network
LoBuono, a 20 year vet, fights for the soul of CBS News
OP-ED
The Tiffany Network
LoBuono, a 20 year vet, fights for the soul of CBS News
The Tiffany Network - Nyack News & Views
LoBuono, a 20 year vet, fights for the soul of CBS News
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December 26, 2025 at 8:03 PM
I'm honored to be quoted in this crucially important Op-Ed by Frank LoBuono nyacknewsandviews.com/blog/2025/12...
OP-ED
The Tiffany Network
LoBuono, a 20 year vet, fights for the soul of CBS News
OP-ED
The Tiffany Network
LoBuono, a 20 year vet, fights for the soul of CBS News
"Martin Scorsese Remembers His Friend Rob Reiner: ‘It Breaks My Heart’" by @simonwilliam.bsky.social @rollingstone.com www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv...
Martin Scorsese Remembers His Friend Rob Reiner: 'It Breaks My Heart'
Martin Scorsese remembers meeting his longtime friend Rob Reiner in the 1970s and casting him in 'The Wolf of Wall Street' in a moving new essay
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December 26, 2025 at 2:30 AM
"Martin Scorsese Remembers His Friend Rob Reiner: ‘It Breaks My Heart’" by @simonwilliam.bsky.social @rollingstone.com www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv...
Good news: Finally, the Supreme Court stops Trump open.substack.com/pub/robertre...
Finally, the Supreme Court stops Trump
Friends,
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December 24, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Good news: Finally, the Supreme Court stops Trump open.substack.com/pub/robertre...
Just came across a note about "Best!", an alternate history musical comedy written by Fred Lawless (which ran in Liverpool & Dublin in mid-90s) in which after Beatles fired Pete Best, they became one-hit wonders and he a global star! I sure wish I could jump in a time machine & see it!
December 23, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Just came across a note about "Best!", an alternate history musical comedy written by Fred Lawless (which ran in Liverpool & Dublin in mid-90s) in which after Beatles fired Pete Best, they became one-hit wonders and he a global star! I sure wish I could jump in a time machine & see it!
review of "All Her Fault" on Substack paullev.substack.com/p/review-of-...
Review of "All Her Fault"
McLuhan and Poe Would've Loved It
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December 21, 2025 at 3:55 PM
review of "All Her Fault" on Substack paullev.substack.com/p/review-of-...
review of All Her Fault paullevinson.blogspot.com/2025/12/all-...
All Her Fault: McLuhan and Poe Would've Loved It
My wife and I binged All Her Fault on Peacock the past two nights. It's a riveting, powerful, different kind of kidnap drama, with all kin...
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December 20, 2025 at 9:12 PM
review of All Her Fault paullevinson.blogspot.com/2025/12/all-...
review of @jaredmoshe.bsky.social's Aporia - on Substack paullev.substack.com/p/review-of-...
Review of "Aporia"
Firing Back in Time
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December 19, 2025 at 5:08 PM
review of @jaredmoshe.bsky.social's Aporia - on Substack paullev.substack.com/p/review-of-...
Highly recommended! Forthcoming book by Deana Weibel www.deanaweibel.space/the-ultravie...
The Ultraview Effect: The Book
Official cover image © University of California Press.
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December 19, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Highly recommended! Forthcoming book by Deana Weibel www.deanaweibel.space/the-ultravie...
Highly recommended! Forthcoming book by Deana Weibel-Swanson www.deanaweibel.space/the-ultravie...
The Ultraview Effect: The Book
Official cover image © University of California Press.
www.deanaweibel.space
December 19, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Highly recommended! Forthcoming book by Deana Weibel-Swanson www.deanaweibel.space/the-ultravie...
the photo and the story substack.com/@paullev/not...
Paul Levinson (@paullev)
Reading my short story, “Slipping Time” (published in Amazing Stories, editor, @Ira Nayman, sitting at table in red sweater vest, to the right) in Toronto, Fall 2019 (photo by @Andrey Mir)
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December 18, 2025 at 7:41 PM
the photo and the story substack.com/@paullev/not...
Good to see Dylan Ratigan back on MSNBC now @msnownews.bsky.social with Ari Melber (here's one of my four appearances on his MSNBC shows youtu.be/2LkjkQ60iJc )
Paul Levinson talks to Dylan Ratigan about violent videogames
YouTube video by Paul Levinson
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December 17, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Good to see Dylan Ratigan back on MSNBC now @msnownews.bsky.social with Ari Melber (here's one of my four appearances on his MSNBC shows youtu.be/2LkjkQ60iJc )
a probably unnecessary comparison vocal.media/criminal/dow...
Down Cemetery Road and Slow Horses
A Possibly Unnecessary Comparison
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December 17, 2025 at 10:37 PM
a probably unnecessary comparison vocal.media/criminal/dow...
David Browne won Los Angeles Press Club award for his “‘I Was Taken Hostage’: How an American Metal Rocker Landed in Russian Prison” article in Rolling Stone. Here’s my review of his Talkin’ Greenwich Village book & my interview w/him earlier this year. paullev.substack.com/p/review-of-...
December 17, 2025 at 3:59 PM
David Browne won Los Angeles Press Club award for his “‘I Was Taken Hostage’: How an American Metal Rocker Landed in Russian Prison” article in Rolling Stone. Here’s my review of his Talkin’ Greenwich Village book & my interview w/him earlier this year. paullev.substack.com/p/review-of-...
Beautiful new release by The 286 with Spencer Hannabuss singing lead the286.bandcamp.com/track/midnig... Btw, Spencer sang my song If I Traveled to the Past, at the It's Real Life radio play www.killerwatt.co/2023/03/bobb...
Midnight Symphony, by The 286
track by The 286
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December 17, 2025 at 1:19 AM
Beautiful new release by The 286 with Spencer Hannabuss singing lead the286.bandcamp.com/track/midnig... Btw, Spencer sang my song If I Traveled to the Past, at the It's Real Life radio play www.killerwatt.co/2023/03/bobb...
"One Battle After Another" leads London Film Critics Circle Film Nominations www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie... Here's my review paullev.substack.com/p/review-of-...
‘One Battle After Another’ Leads London Critics’ Circle Film Awards Nominations, Ahead of ‘Hamnet’
Ryan Coogler’s deep-South horror 'Sinners' scored the third-highest number of nods, with seven in total.
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December 16, 2025 at 5:05 PM
"One Battle After Another" leads London Film Critics Circle Film Nominations www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie... Here's my review paullev.substack.com/p/review-of-...
One Battle After Another leads Golden Globe nominations with 9. www.bbc.com/news/article... Here's my rave review paullev.substack.com/p/review-of-...
Golden Globe nominations: One Battle After Another, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, leads field
Hamnet and Sinners are also recognised, with Timothee Chalamet and Cynthia Erivo up for acting prizes.
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December 12, 2025 at 10:22 PM
One Battle After Another leads Golden Globe nominations with 9. www.bbc.com/news/article... Here's my rave review paullev.substack.com/p/review-of-...
And here's Chronica -- the third novel in the Sierra Waters time-travel trilogy -- in hardcover www.amazon.com/dp/156178060...
Chronica (Sierra Waters)
Chronica (Sierra Waters) [Levinson, Paul] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Chronica (Sierra Waters)
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December 12, 2025 at 5:24 PM
And here's Chronica -- the third novel in the Sierra Waters time-travel trilogy -- in hardcover www.amazon.com/dp/156178060...