David Samuel Levinson's Blog

Please go to www.davidsamuellevinson.com/ramblings for more blog posts as I’m retiring this Wordpress site…Thanks for visiting, reading, and following!Filed under: personal

I am emigrating out of the WordPress community of blogs and immigrating to Weebly. You can find new blog posts here. Thank you for following.Filed under: personal

Some call them ARCs, Advance Reader’s Copies, some others galleys, and hee’s yet another iteration: AREs, Advance Reader’s Editions. No matter the word, phrase, or acronym, Tell Me How This Ends Well is advancing and in six months will be in a bookstore near you.   *Ear buds not included #preorders #hogarth #penguinrandomhouse  Filed under: personal

Some call them ARCs, Advance Reader’s Copies, some others galleys, and here’s yet another iteration: AREs, Advance Reader’s Editions. No matter the word, phrase, or acronym, Tell Me How This Ends Well is advancing and in six months will be in a bookstore near you. *Ear buds not included #preorders #hogarth #penguinrandomhouse  Filed under: personal

I’ve been told that we writers need websites. Well, I finally got around to updating and improving mine for the forthcoming release of my new novel, TELL ME HOW THIS ENDS WELL. Okay, so it’s still a whopping SIX months until publication, but you can still pre-order the book if you’re so moved. Before that, […]

When I was a wee lad, I was a drama geek and was assigned a monologue from Elie Wiesel’s, Night, to perform. Back then, I had no idea that I’d been given this monologue b/c I was Jewish. Yeah, I know. Here’s that monologue, in part: Could one sleep here? Was it not dangerous to […]

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There’s no feeling quite as thrilling as getting a chance to meet a childhood hero, right? In I Am Gone Forever, that meeting, which occurs between a young, no-name writer and America’s most beloved writer of detective novels, isn’t just the start of a beautiful if troubling friendship—it also leads to murder. When Candy, the […]

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There comes a point in every man’s life when he has to decide where he wants to live. I’ve spent the last nine years living away from NYC, though I always long to return. But the NYC I used to know—yes, cue up the elegiac tone and dirges—isn’t the place it once was, not that there’s […]

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Yes, folks, it’s true. My last name—LEVINSON—is Jewish, in fact. The question, however, rarely comes up, or if does, it’s usually to play Jewish Geography. But a couple of weeks ago, while house window-shopping, I stopped before this adorable house in the Monte Vista section of San Antonio, Texas, and called the number listed on […]

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