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Historical Narratives - Nonfiction Writing Class by Marty Levine
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Historical Narratives - Nonfiction Writing Class by Marty Levine
10-week syllabus
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About
10-week syllabus
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About

Extree! Extree!

My brother the amazing playwright with more than 2,000 productions on every continent but Antarctica:

Mark Harvey Levine

You can see his wonderful variety of short comic and serious plays (and the newest, full-length farce that just debuted) at https://newplayexchange.org/users/1748/mark-harvey-levine.

  • I am researching and writing the story of racket-raiding cops, just after Prohibition, competing to end gambling in Pittsburgh’s after-hours clubs and on the street – the illegal daily lottery known as “the numbers” – and profiting from it too. This is the story of the civic activists and religious reformers who thought they had vice beaten, the journalists who chronicled life in the clubs and on the streets, the politicians who battled gambling and those who helped it boom, the competition among races and ethnic groups for control of all this lucrative vice (and what they accomplished with their money), and the legal battle to take down the whole system. In the end, perhaps the person most damaged by this battle was the man who had thought it would help him the most.

  • What’s the story at Creative Nonfiction”: https://publicseminar.org/essays/whats-the-story-at-creative-nonfiction/

  • My current obsessions are Newen Afrobeat (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mFSRCG4DrmI) and Khruangbin (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4xKvHANqjk&t=188s). Know anything similarly wonderful?