On Saturday, February 5, 2022, from 2 till 4 p.m. at Color | Ink Studio in Hazel Park, MI, I’ll celebrate the publication of my latest novel, Savage City (Poison Toe Press, 2021) with a book launch party.

This will be a hybrid event, held live for participants at the studio and simulcast over Zoom.

Savage City is a stand-alone historical novel that takes on racism, anti-Semitism, political corruption, and 1930s-style home-grown terrorism–all problems relevant to today’s world.

In a lively, interactive conversation, I’ll talk about how I developed and researched the book. Along with a Q&A session with in-person and online participants, I’ll read from the book, sign copies for in-person attendees, and take orders for personalized copies from those attending over Zoom.

Set in Detroit, Michigan, in 1932, Savage City follows four characters during a violent week of labor unrest in the bleakest year of the Great Depression:

Detective Clarence Brown is one of a handful of Black officers in the Detroit Police Department, navigating a thicket of lies and racism to find the killer of a young Black man. Ben Rubin wants to move from petty crime into the ranks of Detroit’s notorious Purple Gang. Elizabeth Waters is a fiercely independent Communist sympathizer who has turned her back on her privileged Grosse Pointe upbringing to join the workers’ fight for a piece of the American dream. Roscoe Grissom is an unemployed auto worker enlisted by the fearsome Black Legion to sow terror as a night-riding emissary of hate.

Against the backdrop of the bloody Ford Hunger March, events hurl these four into the center of a political storm that will change them forever.

Early reviews of Savage City have been stellar. The Prairies Book Review called the book, “Layered, powerful, and sharp . . . In a word, brilliant. [Levin’s] insightful ruminations on the nature of power, bloodshed, class and racial disparity, fascism, the labor problems of the era, and universal truth gives depth as well as substance to the affecting narrative.”

The venue, Color | Ink Studio, is located at 20919 John R Rd. in Hazel Park MI, just north of 8 Mile near I-75. This program is free and open to the public, with registration required for both in-person and Zoom attendance. To register, please visit the website, https://colorinkstudio.com/events/savage-city/.