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Article: DAVID LEAVITT GROWS INTO HIS VOICE
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- February 11, 1989
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'I always wanted to be a writer," says David Leavitt, "there
was never any question about that. But at first I wanted to be a
songwriter -- my fantasy was to be Joni Mitchell."
It didn't work out that way, but Leavitt has nevertheless been
able to live out that old fantasy of his. One of the characters in
his new novel, "Equal Affections," is a famous feminist songwriter,
April, one of the two gay children of the book's principal figure,
Louise, a good woman who is dying of cancer.
Like April, David Leavitt became a sudden celebrity, although
celebrity was not something he sought. On May 31, 1982, when
Leavitt was only 20, The New Yorker published a story of his,
"Territory," the ...