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A collection of autobiographical vignettes from an adolescence misspent on the streets of West Philadelphia.

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"Cheesesteak" is a self-proclaimed "rememboir" about growing up in West Philadelphia in the 1950s and ´60s. It covers EC comics, rock´n´roll, basketball, drinking, drugs, love, death, and other matters of the mind and soul. "Chatty, bouncy, with an inherent honesty and artistic sensibility at play on every page," says The Broad Street Review.

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Levin, in his early 70s and long an attorney in Berkeley, California, looks back mostly fondly at what it was like to be a middle class Jewish kid growing up in West Philly in the ´50s, seminal ´60s and beyond. It´s his portrait of the artist as a young man, and despite the chatty, bouncy, self-deprecating style of the early stories of Cheesesteak, there is an artistic sensibility at play on every page.

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Levin, Bob
Bob Levin is the Berkeley-based author of the existential basketball novel The Best Ride to New York; the meta-fictional Fully Armed: The Story of Jimmy Don Polk; the New Journalistic The Pirates and the Mouse: Disney´s War Against the Counterculture, Most Outrageous: The Trials and Trespasses of Dwaine Tinsley and Chester the Molester and Outlaws, Rebels, Freethinkers, Pirates & Pornographers: Essays on Cartoons and Cartoonists; and the black comedy The Schiz. His short stories and articles have appeared in The Massachusetts Review, The Comics Journal, Carolina Quarterly, Spin, The New Republic and Cavalier, and his writing has been honored by the National Endowment for the Arts, the San Francisco Bar Association, Pushcart Press and the Coordinating Council for Literary Magazines.

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