Captain Phil is filling in for Jim Lynch on progressive solutions this week with guest Paul Levinson who will be discussing the Trump/Putin Press Conference that rocked the world!
Paul will be calling in around 12:30pm and while we will be discussing politics Paul is also a prolific songwriter and we will be playing his music before and after the interview. Tune in to
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PAUL LEVINSON, PHD, IS PROFESSOR OF COMMUNICATION & MEDIA STUDIES AT FORDHAM UNIVERSITY IN NYC. HIS SCIENCE FICTION NOVELS INCLUDE THE SILK CODE (WINNER OF LOCUS AWARD FOR BEST FIRST SCIENCE FICTION NOVEL OF 1999), BORROWED TIDES (2001), THE CONSCIOUSNESS PLAGUE (2002), THE PIXEL EYE (2003), THE PLOT TO SAVE SOCRATES (2006), UNBURNING ALEXANDRIA (2013), AND CHRONICA (2014) – THE LAST THREE OF WHICH ARE ALSO KNOWN AS THE SIERRA WATERS TRILOGY, AND ARE HISTORICAL FICTION AS WELL AS SCIENCE FICTION. HIS STORIES AND NOVELS HAVE BEEN NOMINATED FOR HUGO, NEBULA, STURGEON, EDGAR, PROMETHEUS, AND AUDIE AWARDS. HIS NONFICTION BOOKS, INCLUDING THE SOFT EDGE (1997), DIGITAL MCLUHAN (1999), REALSPACE (2003), CELLPHONE (2004), NEW NEW MEDIA (2009; 2ND EDITION, 2012), MCLUHAN IN AN AGE OF SOCIAL MEDIA (2015), FAKE NEWS IN REAL CONTEXT (2016), AND CYBER WAR AND PEACE (2017), HAVE BEEN TRANSLATED INTO TWELVE LANGUAGES. HE CO-EDITED TOUCHING THE FACE OF THE COSMOS: ON THE INTERSECTION OF SPACE TRAVEL AND RELIGION IN 2016. HE APPEARS ON CNN, MSNBC, FOX NEWS, THE DISCOVERY CHANNEL, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC, THE HISTORY CHANNEL, NPR, AND NUMEROUS TV AND RADIO PROGRAMS. HIS 1972 LP, TWICE UPON A RHYME, WAS RE-ISSUED IN 2010. HE WAS PRESIDENT OF THE SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY WRITERS OF AMERICA, 1998-2001. HE REVIEWS TELEVISION IN HIS INFINITEREGRESS.TV BLOG, AND WAS LISTED IN THE CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION’S “TOP 10 ACADEMIC TWITTERERS” IN 2009.

Bibliography: http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?699
https://paullevinson.blogspot.com/