
We’re throwing an Identity Theory reading-party at the San Francisco Lit Crawl on October 14th.
Leavitt’s latest novel is The Indian Clerk, a work of historical fiction about mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan that, according to The New Yorker, demonstrates “how the most meaningful relationships can defy both logic and imagination.”
“Just like when I decided to start an all-girl, all ex-con band, or learn how to eat fire, it just felt like it was time to write my memoir.”
“I love the continuous action of New York. The same way I love being in a dark theater space, a film, a casino, a newsroom. Nothing stops, nothing ends, nothing dies. I love the celebration of artificial life that is implicit in cities, all human-made.”
“I think I’d take a crack at Dr. Phil, if I ever got the chance.”
“I think it is extremely interesting to think that, in some cases, vice might be, finally, more redemptive than virtue.”
“You know how some people like "feel-good" movies? I like "feel-bad" movies. Same is true for books.”