Last year I read The Glittering World and loved it. Doing what I do you get used to seeing the names of various queer lit writers going past you all day long, and quite a lot of that time you know about them but haven’t read them, so when you finally pick up one of their books, there’s always a slightly trepidatious sense about reading them. The Glittering World wasn’t like that for a simple reason: I’m a bit dense. I was sent The Glittering World by netgalley, read it and adored it. I then recommended it to Steve Berman of Lethe who (digitally) blinked at me and said, “Well yes, it’s Robert Levy. Of course it was great.” And he’s right. The Glittering World was one of my top ten reads of last year, and so I was delighted to see it announced as a Lambda finalist, and in the last fortnight announced as a Shirley Jackson nominee. (It’s against a Lethe title for the Shirley Jackson so of course I couldn’t possibly say who I’m rooting for *coughglitteringworldcough*).
Robert Levy is an author of stories, screenplays and plays whose work has been seen Off-Broadway. A Harvard graduate subsequently trained as a forensic psychologist, his first novel The Glittering World was published by Gallery/Simon & Schuster and is a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award, as well as a Shirley Jackson Award nominee. Shorter work has appeared in Shadows & Tall Trees, Black Static, and Autumn Cthulhu, among others. He is currently working on a television pilot as well as a new novel, and can be found in his native realm of Brooklyn and at TheRobertLevy.com.
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