Bob Levin's Blog

• Catching Up

  November 7, 2009

  •  The in-house techno-wizard, Adele, has solved my computer problems and I am now able to read others' blogs here, as well as post my own without going through the always-reliable Huntington Sharpe, allowing him to direct his talents and energies elsewhere.  Anyway, here's the link to my latest piece at Broad Street Review ...
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• Memory, Loss, and the '50s Phillies

  November 4, 2009

  • My newest piece is up at The Broad Street Review:  Here's the link: http://www.broadstreetreview.com/index.php/main/article/my_ball_team_my_sisterAnd here're the opening paragraphs: My father and two of my uncles sat at the breakfast room table, the radio between them. I lay on the floor, rigid with tension, the linoleum cold as clay under my back. When Dick Sisler homered, I was so happy. I ...
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• What's New

  October 28, 2009

  • My latest remisiscence is up at THE BROAD STREET REVIEW.  It opens:In the mid nineteen-fifties, when I was growing up in West Philadelphia, there were six movie theaters withing walking distance of my house. The Byrd, on Baltimore Avenue. The Commodore, on Walnut. And the Locust, Nixon, Rivoli, and State on 52nd Street. The Rivoli seemed to show nothing but black-and-white films no ...
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