Leigh Newman

Leigh Newman

I'm a fiction writer whose shorter work has appeared in Tin House, One Story, The Northwest Review, The New Orleans Review, Fiction and Opium. Right now, I'm at work on a novel. I love to read—classics to small indie contemporary. I teach college-level ficition and am always looking to talk about books. In another life, I'll be a librarian or...more »
  • member since Monday, November 5 2007

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  • Marilyn S

    marilyn s says

    Hi Leigh :) I see we are both fans of the fabulous, ingenious, Roald Dahl . I would love to discuss his books with you or...well...really ANYTHING about books/reading/writing. :) Hope we can become friends...

    posted 2 months ago. ( send a note )
  • RodneyPWelch

    rodneypwelch says

    Thanks Leigh -- for what it's worth I love all of O'Connor, as well as Notes from the Underground, Handful of Dust, Housekeeping, Midnight's Children, The Quick and the Dead and Tree of Smoke

    posted 7 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Elizabeth O

    elizabeth o says

    Hi Leigh - happy to be Shelfari friends :) Looks like we enjoy a lot of the same books... It's good to here that you appreciate Housekeeping. A lot of people have a hard time getting into it, but I think her writing is incredible. I recommend her other and much later novel Gilead as well (though I've found that most people have, if anything, a harder time getting into it).

    posted 8 months ago. ( send a note )
  • juli s

    juli s says

    Wow. Tin House eh? I am impressed. (not that the others aren't impressive too- I'm just most familiar w/Tin House)

    posted 8 months ago. ( send a note )
  • dreamertambien

    dreamertambien says

    Hi Leigh, Sorry about all my confusion last night. I also just joined the feminist group. I was trying to decide which book i would read first, but I think you solved that problem by asking about The Inheritance of Loss. I have not read that one and will check out if our local library has it. I am in the process of packing up my household and also my Mother's household for a move. So i have already sorted and packed most of the books leaving me feeling bereft of their soothing company. Gotta go, Take Care

    posted 8 months ago. ( send a note )
  • dreamertambien

    dreamertambien says

    HiLleigh, sorry I must have been asleep , i did not see your note, only the friendship request, duh. it is the middle of the night here. Are you a night owl too. Would love to get to know you better, will write more when i am more coherent. Take Care.

    posted 8 months ago. ( send a note )
  • dreamertambien

    dreamertambien says

    Hello, thanks for the friendship request. Why me? Take care

    posted 8 months ago. ( send a note )
  • jillmarie

    jillmarie says

    Thank you for the request. I'm travel-lit bingin'
    right now..LOL..just finished The Zanzibar Chest..brilliant read..and am into Geert Mak's In Europe right now...enjoying that too..the year in reading is off to a great start...

    posted 8 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Bei

    bei says

    Accidentally clicked the "send" twice, sorry!

    posted 8 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Bei

    bei says

    Hi Leigh, thanks for adding me and sorry for this delayed reply! Yes, I'm a big fan of Mansfield, too. Her language follows a rhythm that makes me feel well sync-ed and at home, and I love the very often charming endings to most of her short stories, stories that frequently leave a hint of smile on my face when I move onto the next beginning. Zoo keeper is an excellent idea, as well as being a librarian! Both offer diverse varieties of presentations to a curious mind. No, I'm not a writer myself. Reading is a joy that I feel rather contented with.

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  • Bei

    bei says

    Hi Leigh, thanks for adding me and sorry for this delayed reply! Yes, I'm a big fan of Mansfield, too. Her language follows a rhythm that makes me feel well sync-ed and at home, and I love the very often charming endings to most of her short stories, stories that frequently leave a hint of smile on my face when I move onto the next beginning. Zoo keeper is an excellent idea, as well as being a librarian! Both offer diverse varieties of presentations to a curious mind. No, I'm not a writer myself. Reading is a joy that I feel rather contented with.

    posted 8 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Icedream

    icedream says

    Hi Leigh,
    Thanks for the friends request. I think we share more than reading habits in common, I used to be an old sourdough but moved away. Do you have a general interest in AK or do you live there?

    posted 8 months ago. ( send a note )
  • evangeline

    evangeline says

    In my next life, I'm going to be a curator at the Country Music or Rock Hall of Fame. I'm on a Burrito Brothers binge right now...vinyl and cd. Did you read the piece about how to write a short story in the latest Oxford American? I think your class might enjoy it. Fiction writing was one of my favorite courses in college.

    posted 8 months ago. ( send a note )
  • cmtusa

    cmtusa says

    I loved Sweet Mister. Just as poetic, bleak, and rural as Faulkner, the narrator is extremely unique, and the ending is very courageous. It's one of my favorites. Give it a go, and let me know what you think.

    posted 8 months ago. ( send a note )
  • cmtusa

    cmtusa says

    Glad to meet you, Leigh. I'm always to make a new friend who loves Faulkner:) Have you read Death of Sweet Mister by chance?

    posted 8 months ago. ( send a note )
  • mmolino54

    mmolino54 says

    Re: The Corrections--I enjoyed it a good bit, but there was something about it that slightly rubbed me the wrong way. It was too clever, I think--like when you meet someone who understands something intellectually, but doesn't really have the emotional level or maturity to discuss it. Franzen is a little too much of a navel-gazing victim sometimes for me. The story was very entertaining and I like Franzen's sense of humor. What are you reading these days?
    -marc

    posted 9 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Ellipsis

    ellipsis says

    Leigh, thanks for the invitation. I write fiction also and I've had a bit of a hankering to teach lately so I look forward to talking with you.

    posted 9 months ago. ( send a note )
  • BoweryBooks

    bowerybooks says

    Thanks for the tip. I realize now that this is the author of Going Native, which I haven't read but have heard a lot about. I'll check 'em out. Thanks. And I just can't believe my eyes these days when I see people reading Blood Meridian on the subway.

    posted 9 months ago. ( send a note )
  • BoweryBooks

    bowerybooks says

    Hi. Stephen Wright the comic? I haven't. I know he's outside the typical sample, but I tend to stay away from stand-up.

    posted 9 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Orchid of India

    orchid of india says

    Thank you! Leigh

    posted 9 months ago. ( send a note )
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