Ann Levin is a writer who worked for many years as a journalist, including as national news editor at The Associated Press. Before that, she was a reporter for newspapers in Texas and California. Her book reviews and articles have been widely published by the AP, USA Today, and many other media outlets, and her personal essays and memoir have appeared in a number of literary magazines including Sensitive Skin, Southeast Review, Meat for Tea, and Potato Soup Journal. She has also performed on stage with the New York-based writers’ group Read650. She lives in New York City.
It was quite an operation. Lookouts on walkie-talkies patrolled the roofline, and a scout on a bike pedaled up and down the block, combing 7th Street between Avenues B and C. A guy in a ski mask stood guard at an open window on one of the apartment building’s upper floors, ready to service the […]
Illustrations by Aurélie Bernard Wortsman The following is the third installment in a work in progress, Observations on Urban Fauna, a contemporary take on the medieval bestiary, featuring actual and apocryphal creatures that share our constricted urban space. Text and image are gleaned from the lifelong perambulations on asphalt and cement by two native New […]
At the Prospect Park station, I sit across from a Hasidic couple on a three-seater bench on the Q train. Parallel to them, in a wheel-locked stroller, is a toddler with unshorn blonde hair, dark eyes that reflect no light, and a suckling baby mouth. He has been dressed in a Canadian tuxedo of many […]
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