Aidan Levy\xa0has written for the\xa0New York Times, the\xa0Village Voice,\xa0JazzTimes,\xa0and the\xa0Daily Forward,\xa0among others. He is a 2016-17 Biography Fellow at the Leon Levy Center for Biography, where he is working on a biography of the tenor saxophonist and composer Sonny Rollins. He plays baritone saxophone in the Stan Rubin Orchestra and is a doctoral student in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. He holds an M.F.A. from Long Island University, Brooklyn, a B.A. from Brown University, and is a proud member of IATSE Local 52. He lives in New York City.\xa0Dirty\xa0Blvd.\xa0is his first book.