Audiobooks by Paul Levinson

"It all started in the hot summer of 1960, when Marilyn Monroe walked off the set of "The Misfits" and began to hear a haunting song in her head, "Goodbye Norma Jean"… Author Paul Levinson once again takes us on a marvelous magical mystery tour, brilliantly slipping the surly bonds of time, he reveals new insights into his stellar cast of characters and their interconnectedness in a context sans conventional limitations to create a wonderful, beautiful story about how art transcends time."

Paul Levinson (Author), Paul Levinson (Narrator)

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Author Paul Levinson Discusses Marshall McLuhan's Understanding Media

"In the following keynote address given at Baylor University, author Paul Levinson discusses Canadian philosopher and academic Marshall McLuhan's seminal book, "Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man," which proposed that the media--not the content that they carry-- affects the society in which it plays a role and, thus, should be the focus of study. Levinson, a colleague of McLuhan's, lays out, how in the decades since its 1964 publication, McLuhan's study of media theory and the concept that "the medium is the message," still holds true."

Paul Levinson (Author), Paul Levinson (Narrator)

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Author Paul Levinson Discusses Marshall McLuhan's Theory "The Medium Is The Message"

"In the following keynote address given at Saint Francis College, author Paul Levinson discusses Canadian philosopher and academic Marshall McLuhan's concept of "The Medium Is The Message" from his seminal book, Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man. "The Medium Is The Message" proposed that the media--not the content that they carry--affects the society in which it plays a role and, thus, should be the primary focus of study. Levinson, a colleague of McLuhan's, discusses how McLuhan's ideas still hold true in today's environment of social media, digital publication, and proliferation of mass communication methods."

Paul Levinson (Author), Paul Levinson (Narrator)

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Author Paul Levinson Discusses Marshall McLuhan and The Evolution of Media

"In the following keynote seminar, author Paul Levinson discusses Canadian philosopher and academic Marshall McLuhan-whose concept of "The Medium Is The Message" from his seminal book, Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man, which proposed that the media, not the content that they carry, affects the society in which it plays a role-as well as, the evolution of media over the past half-century."

Paul Levinson (Author), Paul Levinson (Narrator)

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The Last Train to Margaretville

Paul Levinson (Author), Paul Levinson (Narrator)

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The Chronology Protection Case

"The radio play of "The Chronology Protection Case" was adapted by Mark Shanahan with Paul Levinson, based on the novelette by Paul Levinson which first appeared in the pages of Analog Magazine in September, 1995 (Copyright 1995 by Paul Levinson. All rights reserved). The script of the radio adaptation was nominated for a prestigious Edgar Allan Poe Award as "Best Play of 2003" by the Mystery Writer's of America.The radio play was initially performed live before a studio audience at the Museum of TV & Radio in September of 2002. It was subsequently recorded at CDM Studios in New York City in 2003, featuring a cast of nine actors, with an original sound design and score. The CDM recording was produced by Charles de Montebello and Mark Shanahan."The Chronology Protection Case" radio play, a science fiction murder mystery, features Shanahan in the role of Dr. Phil D'Amato, the forensic detective who appears in Levinson's acclaimed novels, The Silk Code, The Consciousness Plague and The Pixel Eye. When D'Amato is approached by the distraught wife of a missing scientist whose work is embroiled in secrecy, he is plunged into an adventure with a terrifying and powerful force of nature at the heart of a series of mysterious deaths.The 40 minute thriller is available at Audible.com for download and has been played to wildly enthusiastic, sold out audiences at science fiction conventions around the country."

Paul Levinson (Author), Christina Kirk, David Bucci, Dennis Ryan, Jennifer Waldman, Jeremy Schwartz, Katy Petty, Mark Shanahan, Norman Allen, Sevanne Martin (Narrator)

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It's Real Life: An Alternate History of the Beatles

"It's Real Life: An Alternate History of the Beatles, is a multi-cast radio play based on Paul Levinson's story, "It's Real Life," a story about the most popular band in the history of rock & roll music--The Beatles--and WFUV Radio, adapted for audio by Vincent Tese. With narrator Bobby Roberto; Paul Levinson as well-known New York City DJ Pete Fornatale; Melissa Mania, playing a busker and conductor; Eve Taylor; Tiny Izzy; Tina Vozick; and Brian Lindgren as Dennis Elsas. Program includes an interview with author Paul Levinson."

Paul Levinson (Author), Bobby Roberto, Brian Lindgren, Eve Taylor, Melissa Mania, Paul Levinson, Tina Vozick, Tiny Izzy (Narrator)

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Ian's Ions and Eons

"Ian's Ions and Eons is the name of a time-travel agency in the Riverdale neighborhood of the Bronx. This anthology contains the three 'Ian' novelettes published thus far: 'Ian's Ions and Eons' (2011) 'Ian, Isaac, and John' (2011) and 'Ian, George, and George' (2013). The time travel stories involve Presidential elections, rock music, television and movies. Real historical personages who appear include Al Gore, George W. Bush, William Rehnquist, David Bowie, John Lennon, Dick Cavett, and Orson Welles."

Paul Levinson (Author), Joe Wilson (Narrator)

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The Plot to Save Socrates

"Paul Levinson's astonishing new science fiction novel is a surprise and a delight. In the year 2042, Sierra, a young graduate student in Classics is shown a new dialog of Socrates, recently discovered, in which a time traveler tries to argue that Socrates might escape death by travel to the future. Thomas, the elderly scholar who has shown her the document, disappears, and Sierra immediately begins to track down the provenance of the manuscript, with the help of her classical scholar boyfriend, Max. The trail leads her to a time machine in a gentlemen's club in London and in New York, and into the past, and to a time traveler from her future, posing as Heron of Alexandria in 150 AD. Complications, mysteries, travels, and time loops proliferate as Sierra tries to discern who is planning to save the greatest philosopher in human history, or to do so herself. And she finds that time travel raises more questions than it answers. Fascinating historical characters from Alcibiades (of the honeyed thighs) and Thomas Appleton, the great 19th century American publisher, to Socrates himself, appear. With surprises in every chapter, Paul Levinson has outdone himself in The Plot to Save Socrates."

Paul Levinson (Author), Mark Shanahan (Narrator)

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The Consciousness Plague

"From of the author of The Silk Code, winner of the 1999 Locus Award for Best First Novel, comes another intriguing blend of science fiction and hard-boiled police-procedural mystery. The Consciousness Plague is about memory, more particularly, how the loss of memory, in slivers of time deducted from a growing number of individuals, can subtly undermine and play havoc with everything from the investigation of serial stranglings to candlelight dinners. Dr. D'Amato, NYPD forensic detective, investigates a spate of unusual cases of memory loss and finds evidence of a bacteria-like organism that has lived in our brains since our origin as a species and may be responsible for our very consciousness. There's evidence for this consciousness bug in the ancient Phoenician and Viking cultures and everywhere Phil looks in our world. A new antibiotic crosses the blood-brain barrier and inadvertently kills this essential bug. Phil himself becomes a victim of the memory drain, and must struggle to get the proper authorities to pay attention before everyone loses so much memory that they forget that they forgot in the first place."

Paul Levinson (Author), Mark Shanahan (Narrator)

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