Welcome to Light On Light Through, Episode 405: Howard Margolin invited me to join him on his Destinies: The Voice of Science Fiction show (on WUSB Radio) in a dramatic reading from the second chapter of my 2024 novel, It's Real Life: An Alternate History of The Beatles. Here's the reading, with some commentary before and after by me.

Relevant links:

• Get the Kindle, paperback, or hardcover of the novel
• Read the award-winning first chapter of the novel, FREE
• Listen to the award-winning radioplay adapted from the 1st chapter, FREE
• Anne Reburn's recording of "Real Love" for the radioplay
• Watch my reading the 1st chapter of the novel at its book launch at The Players in NYC, March 27, 2024
• Interview about the novel on Bloggerythms
• February 23, 2025 up-coming in-person dramatic reading from parts of the novel -- at Big Red Books in Nyack, NY -- featuring Anthony Marinelli (playwright, director) and Amanda Greer (actor), who are real-life characters in the novel
• My reviews of Max & Domino (play), and Why I Had to Kill You While You Slept (movie), both written and directed by Anthony Marinelli and starring Amanda Greer
• Listen to the full episode of Destinies: The Voice of Science Fiction, with both the reading in this podcast, and Howard Margolin's interview with me, before and after our reading, December 27, 2024, FREE

Welcome to Light On Light Through, Episode 404, in which I review A Complete Unknown, the new Bob Dylan biopic, which my wife and I went to see on its opening day, Christmas, in New York.

Relevant links:

• my written review of A Complete Unknown
• Frank LoBuono's podcast interview with Terri Thal, Dylan's first manager
• my written review of Jack Dann's The Fiction Writer's Guide to Alternate History ... my podcast interview with Jack Dann
• my video interview of Sarah Seltzer, author The Singer Sisters, a novel about a folk-singing family
• It's Real Life: An Alternate History of The Beatles (my novel)

Welcome to Light On Light Through, Episode 403, in which I interview Jared Moshe about his movie Aporia, a time-travel movie on Hulu that explores, in a way I've never seen before, the wrenching ethical dilemmas that arise when you try to change the past.

Relevant links:

• my written review of Aporia
• Aporia on Hulu
• more about Jared Moshe here
• my best-known time travel novel
• my best-known alternate history novel

Welcome to Light On Light Through, Episode 402, in which I review Dexter: Original Sin on Paramount+Showtime.

Relevant links:

• written reviews of Dexter: Original Sin 1.1 and 1.2-1.3 (with links to written reviews of all episodes of Dexter: New Blood and all eight seasons of the original Dexter)
• audio podcast reviews of Dexter: New Blood 1.1 ... 1.2 ... 1.3 ... 1.4 ... 1.5-1.6 ... 1.7-1.8 ... 1.9-1.10

Welcome to Light On Light Through, Episode 401, in which I interview Dan Abella about The Psychedelic Film and Music Festival, NYC, 14 Dec 2024. (Kendall Brown, Operations Manager for the Festival, joins us in the interview.)

Relevant links:

• The Psychedelic Film and Music Festival
• written interview with me by Evan Levine, in which I discuss Hegel's "spirit of an age" (see 10th question in the interview)
• Dan Abella's play, "Timothy X’s Journey from PTSD to Wholeness," to be performed live at the Festival [scroll down]
• McLuhan in an Age of Social Media
• Lioness (streaming on Paramount+)

Welcome to Light On Light Through, Episode 400, in which I review the Beatles '64 documentary that just went up yesterday on Disney+.

Here are links to some of the many people and things I discuss in the podcast:

• my 1972 article about Murray the K in The Village Voice
• my 1971 article about Paul McCartney in The Village Voice
• the song I wrote and recorded about Murray the K
• my podcast reviews of Peter Jackson's The Beatles: Get Back
• my podcast review of Maestro
• McLuhan in an Age of Social Media
• It's Real Life: An Alternate History of The Beatles
• Evan Levine's 25 November 2024 written interview with me

Welcome to Light On Light Through, Episode 399, in which I review Dune: Prophecy 1.1-1.2 on HBO Max.

• written review of Dune Prophecy 1.1-1.2

Welcome to Light On Light Through, Episode 398, in which I interview Andrew Hoskins about the new book he is writing, The Deadbot Society: AI and the End of the Human Past.

Relevant links:

• "AI and Memory" an article by Andrew Hoskins
• the AI-created video I mentioned in our conversation
• more about McLuhan in an Age of Social Media