ROBERT LEVIN is the coauthor and coeditor, respectively, of two collections of essays about jazz and rock in the '60s: Music & Politics (with John Sinclair), World Publishing, and Giants of Black Music (with Pauline Rivelli), Da Capo Press. A former contributor to the Village Voice and Rolling Stone, his fiction and essays have, among numerous other places, appeared in or on the websites of Absinthe Literary Review, Across the Margin, All About Jazz, Best of Nuvein Fiction, Cosmoetica, Eyeshot, Facsimilation, Konch Magazine, New Cross-Fucked Musings on a Manic Reality, New York Review, Sweet Fancy Moses, Underground Voices, Unlikely Stories of the Third Kind, Woodstock Times and the Word Riot 2003 Anthology.