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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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Young Adam
by Alexander Trocchi

This is the existential tale of Joe, a young man who is as much a mystery to himself as he is to the reader, who works on a barge in Scotland, where he and his boss discover the lifeless body of a young woman in the water. We eventually learn of Joe's relationship to Cathie, the dead woman, and of his involvement with her death. There is, in fact, throughout the story Read more of this blog post »

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New York Stories: Landmark Writing from Four Decades of New York Magazine

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