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Written By: Lawrence Levy Narrated By: Bronson Pinchot Publisher: Novel Audio Date: November 2016 Duration: 7 hours 58 minutes

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If we want to overcome our anxiety and feel good about ourselves, it’s not enough to invest in outer things. We have to make investments in our inner life as well. . . . It’s about keeping grounded and having perspective. It’s never too late to open that door.

Lawrence Levy, “Why Former Pixar CFO Lawrence Levy Walked Away from it All”

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To Pixar and Beyond, Lawrence Levy (20s, using NJT ticket as bookmark, brown corduroy coat, G train)

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Pixar, Steve Jobs ve Apple’ı Nasıl Kurtardı?

Pixar, Steve Jobs ve Apple’ı Nasıl Kurtardı?

Steve Jobs, Pixar meslektaşı Lawrence Levy’e “Apple’a geri dönmeyi düşünüyorum.” dedi. Lawrence Levy ise ona bu muazzam meydan okuma karşısında emin olup olmadığını sorduğunda Jobs’un cevabı “Emin değilim ancak bunu deneyebilirim.” oldu. Bu konuşmanın sonrasında olanlar sayısız makale ve kitapta yer aldı. Steve Jobs, kendi kurmuş olduğu ve iflasın eşiğinden döndürdüğü firmayı geçici CEO olarak…

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'To Pixar and Beyond' paints intimate portrait of Steve Jobs at work

‘To Pixar and Beyond’ paints intimate portrait of Steve Jobs at work

“After his death, Steve Jobs became mythic,” Leander Kahney writes for Cult of Mac. “He’s remembered as an asshole and a technology seer: a Tony Stark-like figure who could uniquely divine the sci-fi future, conjuring magical products from whole cloth almost single-handedly.”

“He’s also seen as infallible: a business and technology genius with powers of divination beyond those of us…

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[Editor’s note: we asked Lawrence Levy to talk about the setting of his new novel, Second Street Station, a historical mystery about the first woman detective in Brooklyn. Here’s what he had to say!]

The 19th century was a time when the United States flexed its muscles and grew into an industrial power. The type of rapid growth spurt our country experienced was mostly due to great innovators and inventors who revolutionized and sped up how we produced things and the notorious robber barons who built huge industries often at the expense of severely underpaid workers and whatever competitors dared to challenge them.

Some events in life happen by design, some are accidental, and some, no matter by which path they arrive, can only be described as serendipitous. I was helping my son research a term paper and came upon the Edison/Tesla feud over the electricity market in the late 19th century. I found that to be a fascinating piece of Americana, but I also felt that story would be more entertaining told in the context of a murder mystery. I poured through real murders at that time (here comes the serendipitous part) and found the Goodrich case in Brooklyn, which involved my eventual heroine Mary Handley, who took over the story.

In Second Street Station, Mary is hired to sleuth a high profile murder mostly as a political ploy to show the world that a woman can’t do a man’s job. Brooklyn plays a significant part as the backdrop of her journey. At that time, Brooklyn hadn’t become a part of New York and was the fourth largest city in the United States on its own. In a way, it was a microcosm of our country then and also today. The Brooklyn Bridge had been completed five years before my story starts and more and more Brooklynites were working in Manhattan. However, there was still a large segment of the population that considered themselves a small town and wanted to be protected from ‘big city” influences.

Brooklyn had good schools, nice parks, and was what many felt to be a wonderful place to raise a family. It had many first and second generation Americans as did much of the United States at that time. However, there was a significant segment of the population that had a fear of foreigners, the new kind from different places who would dirty their city and ruin their wholesome way of life. Sound familiar?

Yet, strangely, Brooklyn was also welcoming and innovative. It was the place poet Walt Whitman chose to call home. The designer of the Brooklyn Bridge (dubbed the” eighth wonder of the world”) was a Prussian immigrant who lived in Brooklyn Heights, and, believe or not, it was the first place to have a modern sewer system. There were progressives and reactionaries, and thus it’s a perfect setting for a woman trying to fight against the “powers that be” and prove her worth. Everything that Mary Handley does is under a microscope from both her fans and her detractors, thus making accomplishment that much harder and her story that much more interesting.

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Golf photographer Lawrence Levy captures the intensity of concentration in Tom Watson as he determines the line for his putt at the 1992 Players Championship at the TPC Sawgrass Stadium Course in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida.  Watson has amassed over 70 professional victories in his career over the past four decades and is still one of the fans’ favorites in the golfing world.

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An atmospheric photo taken by Lawrence Levy of golfers on the 8th tee-box during the AT&T Pro-Am golf tournament at Pebble Beach, California in 1993.

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