My name is Levi Asher. This is me, and that's my guitar and my son and my book collection.
I created Literary Kicks in July 1994, and have been running it continuously (with occasional short sanity breaks) ever since. Litkicks is about literature ... and also about philosophy, art, history, religion, society, culture, music, politics, technology, nature, psychology, life. The articles are written by either me or one of several great contributors. If you have an idea for an article, please email me at litkicks@gmail.com. We always love to get your feedback via comments to every piece we publish.
In 2010, we began publishing original books. Our most popular title is Why Ayn Rand Is Wrong (and Why It Matters)
ADVERTISING: We love to run ads for great books or high quality products that would appeal to our readership. We work with BlogAds.com for all ad sales.
REVIEW POLICY: Due to the overwhelming number of worthy novels and fiction collections published every year, we do not try to review new novels by emerging authors. Instead, we cover fiction by keeping an ear to the ground and following recommendations to help us find the next new writers to love. We are more likely to accept review copies for unusual works or non-fiction books covering specific subjects we are interested in. If you would like to discuss sending a review copy, please email litkicks@gmail.com or send to:
Literary Kicks
328 8th Avenue #337
New York NY 10001 USA
MORE ABOUT ME AND THE SITE: Since Litkicks has been around since the early dawn of web culture, we've been through a lot of changes, and I've seen a whole lot of stuff go down. If you'd like to know more about the long history of this website and the secrets of its quirky creator, please read my memoir of Silicon Alley, 1993 to 2003. This attempted autobiography is still untitled, unedited and incomplete, but the story it tells may burn your ears.
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Found your review of the (frustratingly-delayed) On the Road movie & a piece you wrote on Renaldo & Clara from 2011. I really loved reading both & LOVE your site. Fantastic writing about things I love. I'm gonna keep you bookmarked & link to you from my blog. :-) Keep up the great work!
Hey Levi,
Just wanted to drop a note to congratulate you and your team,on the evolution of litkicks,
Love an old friend,
Hazel - aka onthebus2002
I really liked reading the hippie highlights from your article written in 2001. My only wish was that you'd kept going up to present time (which still would have only been 2001). But I am actually in search of that through-line of alternative, hippie-inspired writing. Who is currently part of that through line? I am thinking you could pint me to several of your posts, and I could connect some dots. Thank you so much for your insights and philosophical musings. Super touching.
Bellingham
Hey Levi, I know you probably won't read this, but if you do, I'd like to know what's happened to the Action Poetry Archives? I really would like to know where those went, because I'd like to be able to access many of those poems that I wrote back in they day for my portfolio.
Sorry if that sounds like complaining. It really isn't. I'm very happy at the success of Litkicks. Really, it's nice to see somewhere I once called home flourishing.
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