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...happens quite a lot. I love it and I occasionally write special passages for them, where Mma Ramotswe pays particular attention to the people getting married. I think that people find that there are passages [from these books] which resonate with them, and which say something about matters that people will think about at weddings...
...that had gone into a bookshop. She didn't explain what the issue was, but she decided that she wasn't going to continue to live. And she came across Mma Ramotswe, and this changed her mind about taking her life. And she wrote me a very nice email saying that this had happened. Well, what can one say in those circumstances? We also get a lot of messages from people who have, say, been having chemotherapy. That's a very common thing...
...know that a lot of those people do. They realize in fact that I dont observe the conventions, and also they realize we don't have in these books real crime, and we certainly don't have any bodies. Some readers, though, actually feel disappointed by that and will say these aren't real mysteries. Well, they aren't, and I never would assert that they are. Sometimes I'll go to these mystery conventions, and the real mystery writers don't look like me. They wear dark t-shirts and look really cool...
...TIME: You describe yourself as a late bloomer for having come out after you were 40 years old. Leifer: I'm finding, especially with women, a couple of different kinds of gays. I've met people who say, "I knew I was gay my whole life, and I lived this lie, and then I finally came out." My kind of gay is like the late-breaking-lesbian kind of gay. I mean, I was attracted to boys. My first crush was on Davy Jones. My kind of gay, meeting a woman and falling in love, is a different experience because...
...many Indians, Modi is evil. They say he has transformed Gujarat, the state that produced Mohandas Gandhi, into a tautly polarized polity. In 2002, it witnessed a six-week riot, the worst in the country's history, leaving more than 1,800 people dead, mostly Muslims. Modi has refused to apologize for the massacres. He continues to be as capable of delivering fiery Hindu-nationalist speeches as he is in delivering essential public services to his people; he has has ruthlessly exploited religious divisions to attain and hang on to power. With this combination of prosperity gospel and virulent religion...