Welcome to Light On Light Through, Episode 381, a special Saturday episode of this podcast, in which Captain Phil and I talk about the Philip K. Dick Film Festival going on today at the Musuem of the Moving Image in Astoria, Queens; a panel I'll be moderating there at 2:40 this afternoon on the Anatomy of a Feature Winning Script; my novel It's Real Life: An Alternate History of The Beatles which has just been published and for which no movie or TV script has yet been written (but a radio play has been adapted from the first chapter, see the links below); Philip K. Dick; and much more.

• The Philip K. Dick Film Festival
• It's Real Life: An Alternate History of The Beatles novel
• It's Real Life the radio play

Welcome to Light On Light Through, Episode 380, in which I review the first season of 3 Body Problem.

• written blog post review of first season of 3 Body Problem
• science fiction works mentioned in the podcast: Ender's Game, Childhood's End, To Serve Man, Dune, Foundation

Welcome to Light On Light Through, Episode 379, in which I take you into the Book Launch and reading I did of It's Real Life: An Alternate History of The Beatles, my new novel, based on the award-winning short story of the same name, in the historic Players Club in New York City on March 27, 2024.

• "Paul Levinson's It's Real Life is a page-turning exploration into that multiverse known as rock and roll. But it is much more than a marvelous adventure narrated by a master storyteller...it is also an exquisite meditation on the very nature of alternate history." -- Jack Dann, The Fiction Writer's Guide to Alternate History
• Watch the video of the Book Launch here.
• Get the book here.
• Listen to the radio play adapted from the short story here.
• Listen to "If I Traveled to the Past" here.
• Interview about the novel here.
• More about The Players.
• More about the New York Society for General Semantics (sponsor of the Book Launch.)

Welcome to Light On Light Through, Episode 378, in which I present the many reasons that banning TikTok in the United States -- or even threatening to ban TikTok in the U.S. -- is a bad idea.

Welcome to Light On Light Through, Episode 377, in which I review the third season of Hightown.

• written blog post review of the third season of Hightown, with links to my written reviews of most of the episodes of the first two seasons.

Welcome to Light On Light Through, Episode 376, in which I interview Dan Abella in George's Cafe in Manhattan about The Mind Revolution Experience (March 14, 7-9pm at The Producer's Club, 358 W. 44th Street, NYC) and the upcoming Philip K. Dick Film Festival (April 4-7, Musuem of the Moving Image, and other places in NYC).

• more about The Mind Revolution Experience here
• more about the PKD Film Festival here
• more about my novel, It's Real Life: An Alternate History of The Beatles -- that I'll be doing a reading from at the PKD Film Festival -- here

Welcome to Light On Light Through, Episode 375, in which I interview Richard Sparks about his new novel, New Rock, New Role, as well as the joys and woes, the trials and tribulations and triumphs of the writerly life.

More about New Rock, New Role

Welcome to Light On Light Through, Episode 374, in which I review the fourth season of True Detective on HBO Max.

• Written blog post review of True Detective 4.1-4.3
• Written blog post review of True Detective 4.4-4.6

Welcome to Light On Light Through, Episode 373, in which I review the second season of Reacher on Amazon Prime Video.

• podcast review of Reacher 1
• written blog post review of Reacher 2

Welcome to Light On Light Through, Episode 372, in which I review The Greatest Night in Pop: The Untold Story Behind 'We Are the World'.

• my written blog post review of The Greatest Night in Pop
• the "We Are the World" video
• 30-minute documentary made shortly after "We Are the World"