Sarah Leavitt is a writer and comics artist who contributes regularly to Geist. She lives in Vancouver. Visit her at sarahleavitt.com.
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Sarah Leavitt
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
Sarah Leavitt reviews Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic, Alison Bechdel's first graphic novel full of vibrantly alive, expressive characters and richly satisfying extras. more
Waiting for Sleep
On sick watch, Sarah Leavitt observes her mother shoot out of bed, sing folk songs and talk in short bursts. more
3 Girls
Sarah Leavitt is more than just a clever cartoonist; she also paints pictures with her colourful prose. more
The Authoritative Field Guide to: Language Vermin
Want to know what a misplaced modifier looks like? How about a dangling participle? Look no further. more
Small Dogs
Emily’s mother had unusually large eyes that bulged slightly and often turned red, and she stared at people in restaurants and stores. Sometimes Emily’s mother commented on these people’s conversations, or laughed at their jokes, as if she were part of their group. When they turned and gave Emily’s mother a look to remind her that she was not part of the group, Emily’s throat would tighten and she would have to pinch her arm hard to keep from hitting her mother. more
The Love that Won’t Shut Up
On the eighth night of the Vancouver Queer Film Festival, my girlfriend and I and about 175 other people crowded into the Vancity Theatre to see The Love That Won’t Shut Up, the first production in the Out on Screen Film and Video Society’s Queer His more
We Are On Our Own
Miriam Katin was a small child when she and her mother escaped Nazi-occupied Budapest by faking their deaths and walking into the Hungarian countryside. At sixty-three, Katin has finally told her story, in straightforward, unsentimental prose and lov more
English Passengers
A fast-paced seafaring adventure from my father’s bookshelf, in which a wealthy Londoner on a religious mission to Tasmania falls in with a crew of Manxmen smuggling tobacco, liquor and French porn. more
An American Childhood
In Annie Dillard’s memoir, her parents are odd and dreamy intellectuals who adored words and stories, creating their own language from savoured sayings, jokes and scraps of family stories. more
Fingersmith
Sarah Waters’s novel pulls the reader into the gritty, dangerous world of mid-nineteenth-century London, where the petty thieves are known as fingersmiths. more
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