| Born | January 24, 1968 (age 53)[citation needed] New York, New York |
|---|---|
| Occupation | Journalist, author |
| Citizenship | United States |
| Genre | Non fiction, memoir |
| Notable works | An Abbreviated Life |
| Website | |
| www.ariel-leve.com | |
Ariel S. Leve (born January 24, 1968) is an American author and journalist. She was a columnist for The Guardian and subsequently for the Sunday Times Magazine. Her memoir An Abbreviated Life was published by HarperCollins in 2016.
Early life[edit]
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Ariel Leve was born in New York City and grew up with her mother, Sandra Hochman, a poet, in Manhattan.[citation needed] At age five she began traveling to Southeast Asia, where she spent part of the year living in Bangkok, Thailand, with her father.[citation needed]
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Career[edit]
Leve wrote for The London Sunday Times Magazine from 2003-2010. She has contributed frequently to The Guardian, and has written for The New York Times, the New York Times Book Review,[1]Esquire Magazine, Vanity Fair Magazine, Men’s Journal, The Wall Street Journal Magazine, The Financial Times Magazine,[2]The Sunday Telegraph Magazine, The Sunday Times Style Magazine,Marie Claire, Elle, Psychologies, Vogue (U.K.), Granta and others.
Leve has written a number of profiles and cover stories, including the June 2016 Esquire Magazine cover story on the actor Liev Schreiber.[3] She has appeared as a guest on WTF with Marc Maron[4] and given a TED talk on gaslighting.[5]
From October 2005 to January 2010 Leve wrote the weekly humor column 'Cassandra' for the Sunday Times Magazine. Prior to that, the column ran in The Guardian under the title 'Half Empty'.[citation needed] From 2010 - 2012 Leve wrote a monthly food column for Guardian called The Fussy Eater.[6]
Books[edit]
Leve's first book, titled It Could Be Worse, You Could Be Me in the US and The Cassandra Chronicles in the UK, was a collection of her 'Cassandra” columns from The Sunday Times Magazine. It was published in August 2009. Leve's television pilot of 'It Could Be Worse, You Could Be Me' was optioned by Cineflix Studios[7]
Her second book, 1963: The Year of the Revolution[8], co-authored by Robin Morgan recounts the story of the rise of the Youthquake movement in 1963. Leve and Morgan detail how young people became a significant commercial and cultural force for the first time. The book includes interviews with prominent figures from the movement, including Eric Clapton, Keith Richards, Bill Wyman, Mary Quant, Patti Boyd, Andrew Loog Oldham, Neil Sedaka and Carly Simon.
Leve's third book, An Abbreviated Life, was published in June 2016. A memoir of her early years, it explores the psychological consequences of a traumatic childhood and the aftermath of survival. The memoir received a positive review in The New York Times.[9]
Awards[edit]
In 2005, she was nominated for the British Press Awards for Interviewer of the Year for 2004.[10][11]
In 2008, she was nominated for the British Press Awards for Feature Writer of the Year for 2007.[12]
In 2008, she won Feature Writer of the Year from the Magazine Design and Journalism Awards.[13][14][15][16]
In 2010, she was nominated for the British Press Awards for Interviewer of the year for 2009, and was 'Highly Commended.[17][18]
References[edit]
- ^Leve, Ariel (2016-11-11). 'A Son Writes of His Mother's Painful Past'. The New York Times. ISSN0362-4331. Retrieved 2018-04-14.
- ^'Subscribe to read'. Financial Times. Retrieved 2018-04-14.Cite uses generic title (help)
- ^'Where Liev Schreiber and Ray Donovan Intersect'. Esquire. 2016-06-29. Retrieved 2018-04-14.
- ^'Episode 819 - Ariel Leve / Wheeler Walker, Jr'. WTF with Marc Maron Podcast. Retrieved 2018-04-14.
- ^Leve, Ariel. 'How to deal with gaslighting'. YouTube. Retrieved 14 February 2020.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
- ^'The fussy eater | Life and style'. the Guardian. Retrieved 2018-04-14.
- ^'Cineflix Studios Options 'It Could Be Worse, You Could Be Me''. Multichannel. Retrieved 2018-04-14.
- ^Noble, Barnes &. '1963: The Year of the Revolution: How Youth Changed the World with Music, Art, and Fashion'. Barnes & Noble. Retrieved 2018-04-14.
- ^Senior, Jennifer (2016-06-26). 'Review: In 'An Abbreviated Life,' Ariel Leve Escapes Her Mommie Dearest'. The New York Times. ISSN0362-4331. Retrieved 2018-04-14.
- ^'British Press Awards – first shortlists – Press Gazette'. www.pressgazette.co.uk. Retrieved 2018-04-14.
- ^'Press Gazette - Journalism matters. Every week'. 2005-10-29. Archived from the original on 2005-10-29. Retrieved 2018-04-14.
- ^'British Press Awards 2008: the shortlist – Press Gazette'. www.pressgazette.co.uk. Retrieved 2018-04-14.
- ^'Magazine Design and Journalism Awards: Winners list – Press Gazette'. www.pressgazette.co.uk. Retrieved 2018-04-14.
- ^'Press Gazette magazine awards shortlist revealed – Press Gazette'. www.pressgazette.co.uk. Retrieved 2018-04-14.
- ^'Live blog: Magazine Design and Journalism Awards – Press Gazette'. www.pressgazette.co.uk. Retrieved 2018-04-14.
- ^'Wallpaper wins three Press Gazette Magazine Awards – Press Gazette'. www.pressgazette.co.uk. Retrieved 2018-04-14.
- ^'The British Press Awards – all the nominations – Press Gazette'. www.pressgazette.co.uk. Retrieved 2018-04-14.
- ^Ltd, Magstar. 'Press Awards'. www.pressawards.org.uk. Archived from the original on 2017-06-20. Retrieved 2018-04-14.
External links[edit]
- Official website: ariel-leve.com
Overview
A beautiful, startling, and candid memoir about growing up without boundaries, in which Ariel Leve recalls with candor and sensitivity the turbulent time she endured as the only child of an unstable poet for a mother and a beloved but largely absent father, and explores the consequences of a psychologically harrowing childhood as she seeks refuge from the past and recovers what was lost.An Abbreviated Life Summary
Ariel Leve grew up in Manhattan with an eccentric mother she describes as “a poet, an artist, a self-appointed troublemaker and attention seeker.” Leve learned to become her own parent, taking care of herself and her mother’s needs. There would be uncontrolled, impulsive rages followed with denial, disavowed responsibility, and then extreme outpourings of affection. How does a child learn to feel safe in this topsy-turvy world of conditional love?
An Abbreviated Word
Leve captures the chaos and lasting impact of a child’s life under siege and explores how the coping mechanisms she developed to survive later incapacitated her as an adult. There were material comforts, but no emotional safety, except for summer visits to her father’s home in South East Asia—an escape that was terminated after he attempted to gain custody. Following the death of a loving caretaker, a succession of replacements raised Leve—relationships which resulted in intense attachment and loss. It was not until decades later, when Leve moved to other side of the world, that she could begin to emancipate herself from the past. In a relationship with a man who has children, caring for them yields clarity of what was missing.
An Abbreviated Life Pdf
In telling her haunting story, Leve seeks to understand the effects of chronic psychological maltreatment on a child’s developing brain, and to discover how to build a life for herself that she never dreamed possible: An unabbreviated life.