The Venice Literary Review is a book of short essays and musings about aging, the challenges of change, a move to Florida from New York during the pandemic, adjustment to a highly regulated gated community for retirees, diminishing physical abilities, memories of the past, and the struggles of being a writer.

Paul Levine is the Amazon Number One Bestselling Author of the "Jake Lassiter" and "Solomon vs. Lord" series. Levine won the John D. MacDonald Fiction Award and has been nominated for the Edgar, Macavity, International Thriller, Shamus, and James Thurber prizes. A former trial lawyer, he also wrote twenty episodes of the CBS military drama "JAG" and co-created the Supreme Court drama "First Monday" starring James Garner and Joe Mantegna. The international bestseller "To Speak for the Dead" was his first novel and introduced readers to linebacker-turned-lawyer Jake Lassiter. "Bum Rap," which brought Lassiter together with Steve Solomon and Victoria Lord, was an Amazon #1 bestseller. His latest book is "Early Grave" in which an ailing Lassiter sues to establish high school football as so inherently dangerous as to constitute a "public nuisance" that should be abolished. For more information, visit the author's website at www.paul-levine.com or follow him on Twitter @Jake_Lassiter.