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My Career Part One: Philosophy of The Arts

Patricia Leavy·
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·May 17, 2024·26 min read
There’s also a larger goal underscoring my work. I aim to create a philosophy of the arts and a philosophy of love.
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Start Again and Sparkle Always with Celestial Bodies

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·May 17, 2024·25 min read
I’d take the past and make it straight, Even though it’s complicated, We’ve got time to start again, I don’t know if you can hear me…
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Patricia Leavy Is the Social Fiction Doyenne

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·May 17, 2024·20 min read
Patricia Leavy is a genuine trailblazer, the real deal, an inspiration.
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Spark: A Novel and Metaphor for Interdisciplinary Research

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·May 6, 2024·13 min read
Leavy’s 2019 novel about a week-long all-inclusive Icelandic research seminar wends its way through meetings, planning sessions, excursions, debates and dinners to the heart of the paradigms and epistemological questions that structure and drive scholarly research.
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Social Fiction: How Leavy Pioneers a New Genre

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·March 15, 2024·23 min read
Christine Sleeter writes about Dr. Patricia Leavy's new genre, Sleeter's own books and her reflections on the social fiction series.
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Hollyland: Writing Fiction to Celebrate the Arts

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·February 13, 2023·5 min read
In the following interview with award-winning author, Patricia Leavy, we discuss writing fiction and her new novel Hollyland.
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What Is Social Fiction? Talking Re/Invention with Patricia Leavy

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·October 24, 2022·10 min read
"In our latest chat, Patricia Leavy discusses the evolution of the self-coined social fiction genre and offers a sneak peek at her latest publication, Film Blue."
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Interview with Award-Winning Author Patricia Leavy on Literary Research

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·July 18, 2022·14 min read
"In my interview with award-winning author Patricia Leavy on literary research, we also discuss her evolution from academic to novelist, her genre of "social fiction," and her latest novels series, Celestial Bodies."
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