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CRITICAL MASS (Free subscription) | 05/20/2008
NBCC member fiction finalist David Leavitt's pick for the NBCC Good Reads Spring 2008 list , recommendations by NBCC members, awards winners and finalists: Marshall N. Klimasewiski, "Tyrants." "Tyrants" is a collection of great range and breadth and imagination. Like Alice Munro, Klimasewiski writes stories on a novelistic scale, encompassing great swaths of history while carrying the...
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Salt Lake Tribune (Free subscription) | 05/15/2008
David Leavitt, who was given the heave-ho at the state GOP Convention Saturday, issued a press release today to say he was standing by his decision to endorse Rep. Chris Cannon. Well, OK. . . . We didn't know there was a question but, whatever. The interesting thing, though, about the statement is the language used by the little brother of former Gov. Mike Leavitt to seemingly...
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Salt Lake Tribune (Free subscription) | 05/11/2008
by Robert Gehrke David Leavitt was eliminated on the second round of balloting at the Utah Republican Convention today, setting up a final-round showdown between Jason Chaffetz and six-term incumbent Rep. Chris Cannon. Leavitt endorsed Cannon in the final round, and his staffers, wearing orange Leavitt shirts, carried Cannon signs up and down the aisles of the convention...
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The Elegant Variation (Free subscription) | 05/06/2008
David Leavitt's wonderful The Indian Clerk - to which we recently devoted an entire week - is a PEN/Faulkner award finalist. Although a novelist who chooses real people and events has much of the details already available, Leavitt finds that...
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Salt Lake Tribune (Free subscription) | 04/17/2008
WASHINGTON - With the state convention less than a month away, congressional challenger David Leavitt has suspended his fundraising efforts. Instead he has taken out his checkbook.
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Deseret Morning News (Free subscription) | 04/16/2008
Rep. Chris Cannon continues to be paced financially by challenger David Leavitt in the 3rd Congressional District race.
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The Elegant Variation (Free subscription) | 04/10/2008
David Leavitt partakes in a lengthy, candid interview about the "dire state of fiction" at Court the Jesters. In all honesty, even though I teach in an MFA program, I have mixed feeling about the MFA industry (and it is...
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The Telegraph India (Free subscription) | 03/21/2008
The Indian Clerk By David Leavitt, Bloomsbury, Rs 495
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Deseret Morning News (Free subscription) | 03/21/2008
Republican David Leavitt makes three main campaign "promises" as he attempts to unseat Rep. Chris Cannon, R-Utah, in the 3rd Congressional District. And one is to renew the religious faith of Utahns as it applies to government operations.
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Deseret Morning News (Free subscription) | 03/04/2008
Jason Chaffetz may not have as much money as opponent David Leavitt or 3rd Congressional District Rep. Chris Cannon, but he has a three-ring binder full of examples on why Cannon should not be sent back to Washington and voters should opt for him instead of Leavitt.
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CRITICAL MASS (Free subscription) | 02/28/2008
NBCC members and finalists and winners of our book award were eligible to vote in the winter edition of the NBCC's Good Reads. Here's what former NBCC fiction finalist David Leavitt recommended and why: I've always loved William Trevor's stories. Each collection seems to outdo the one that precedes it. In Cheating at Canasta the stories are set, mostly, in Ireland and England, and are...
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Deseret Morning News (Free subscription) | 02/27/2008
Congressional candidate David Leavitt will host a reception tonight at 7 at the Springville Art Museum.
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The Independent (Free subscription) | 02/22/2008
Srinivasa Ramanujan was an exceptionally gifted mathematician who died at 32 in 1920. Born in Erode, now the Indian state of Tamil Nadu, Ramanujan was a clerk in a soulless government department, personifying the babu - or the intermediary between the ruler and the ruled that Thomas Macaulay had thought necessary for the British to rule India. Ramanujan was not formally trained in mathematics, but...
