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  Date / Time: 7/6/2008 9:24 PM UTC

  Author David Leavitt on his trip to Australia, his encounter with politicians, and Down Under Coffee
  

  Part One (30 min): An interview with David Leavitt, author of "The Indian Clerk" and "Family Dancing." 

  
  

  David Leavitt graduated from Yale University in 1983 with a BA in English. He is the author of the short story collectionsFamily Dancing (finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Prize and the National Book Critics’ Circle Award), A Place I’ve Never Been,Arkansas, and The Marble Quilt, as well as the novels The Lost Language of Cranes, Equal Affections, While England Sleeps(Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Fiction Prize), The Page Turner, Martin Bauman, or A Sure Thing, and The Body of Jonah Boyd. In 2002, he published Florence, A Delicate Case as part of Bloomsbury’s series “The Writer and the City.” His Collected Stories was published in 2003 by Bloomsbury. The Man Who Knew Too Much: Alan Turing and the Origins of the Computerappeared in 2005 and the novel The Indian Clerk appeared in 2007. Professor Leavitt is also the editor of Subtropics, a new literary magazine edited in the Department of English.

  
  

  With Mark Mitchell, Professor Leavitt is co-author of Italian Pleasures and In Maremma: Life and a House in Southern Tuscany, and co-editor of the anthologies The Penguin Book of Gay Short Stories and Pages Passed from Hand to Hand. His work has appeared in many newspapers and magazines, including The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Harper’s, Esquire, Vogue, The Paris Review, DoubleTake, The Southwest Review, Tin House,Food & Wine and Travel and Leisure. He has also taught at Princeton University.
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