The Elegant Variation (Free subscription) | 10/02/2008
Another venerable independent gives up the ghost as Olsson's finally closes up shop ... David Leavitt's excellent The Indian Clerk, to which we devoted a full week last year, is now out in paperback if you haven't caught up with...
thomasfortenberry.net (Free subscription) | 07/27/2008
Was reading some reviews of The Lazarus Project by Aleksandar Hemon, of which I especially liked David Leavitt’s “Chaos Theory.” The Lazarus Project, the masterful new novel from the Bosnian-American writer Aleksandar Hemon, opens with a passage that recalls the invocations of epic poetry: “The time and place,” Hemon tells us, “are the only things I [...]
Gay For Today (Free subscription) | 06/23/2008
David Leavit t born 23 June 1961 David Leavit t is an American novelist and author. He is probably best known for his 1986 debut novel The Lost Language of Cranes .
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 reader all over...
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 backhand both
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 hall -- likely a
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...
Deseret Morning News (Free subscription) | 05/04/2008
With a week left in their bid to unseat six-term Utah Congressman Chris Cannon, Jason Chaffetz, David Leavitt and Joe Ferguson threw some haymakers at the incumbent during a debate Saturday in Provo.
Deseret Morning News (Free subscription) | 04/19/2008
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.
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.
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...
The Telegraph India (Free subscription) | 03/21/2008
The Indian Clerk By David Leavitt, Bloomsbury, Rs 495
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.
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.
