Adam Levin’s latest big, huge novel throws Chicago into a giant sinkhole. After all, he lives in Florida now.
CHICAGO — Adam Levin left Chicago a few years ago and moved to Florida, and if you don’t think that’s hilarious, you should meet Adam Levin. He grew up in Highland Park, taught at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and for the past decade has been known as an admired novelist of intense, books with bigger ideas. He’s married to French writer Camille Bordas, who teaches at the University of Florida in Gainesville. He studied at Syracuse University under (Oak Forest native) George Saunders, whose satiric, hallucinatory stories Levin’s own writing occasionally recalls. His first novel, “The Instructions” (2010, 1,026 pages) of a Chicago boy who may or not be the messiah; his 2020 novel, “Bubblegum” (784 pages), imagined a “cute economy” in which
