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Barry Stewart Levy

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Barry Stewart Levy is a former English teacher who also worked as a Literary Artist for the Cultural Council Foundation/CETA Artists Project, co-authoring the topical revue “New Living Newspaper, Vol. 1, No. 2” (Playwrights Horizons), writing poetry for the anthology “Words to Go” and conducting interviews for the publication ArtWorkers News. He was a reporter for Gotham Newsmagazine and a freelance game show writer for NBC’s “Shoot for the Stars.” He is the recipient of the Clarence Kline Essay Prize and was a semi-finalist in the Writers Guild of America, East, Fellowship Competition. “European Son: a novella” is his first work of fiction.

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European Son: a novella

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A Perfect Spy
by John le Carre

It's very well written and very British and very long, nearly seven hundred pages, and intricately conceived, with the story told from multiple points of view. It is a tale of spies and love and friendship and betrayal. It is also John le Carre's most autobiographical novel, as it describes a father's stranglehold on his son and the terrible consequences that follow. T Read more of this blog post »

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Michelangelo Antonioni: The Investigation 1912-2007 (Basic Film)

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