Background
Ariel Leve was born in New York City and grew up with her mother in Manhattan. At age five she began traveling to Southeast Asia, where she spent part of the year living in Bangkok, Thailand, with her father.
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“Ariel Leve is the love child of David Sedaris and Fran Leibowitz. An original and funny voice…. Insightful and sharp.” — Joan Rivers “Ariel Leve is brilliant and funny and the only other person I know without an oven. Buy this book and keep it close.” — Bill Nighy “Funny, smart, delightfully cranky”(AJ Jacobs) Ariel Leve’s Sunday Times Magazine (London) column “Cassandra” moves to book form. It Could Be Worse, You Could Be Me offers a humorously bleak perspective on life’s potential to turn out badly… and Ariel’s innate ability to put the black cloud into the silver lining. This is a book for schadenfreude aficionados; for readers who identify with Cassandra’s slogan, “worrying is my yoga”; and for fans of Seinfeld, Ugly Betty, Sex & the City, Curb Your Enthusiasm, David Sedaris, Woody Allen, and New Yorker cartoons.
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Ariel Leve was born in New York City and grew up with her mother in Manhattan. At age five she began traveling to Southeast Asia, where she spent part of the year living in Bangkok, Thailand, with her father.
A senior writer on contract with the London Sunday Times Magazine since 2003, she has written over a dozen cover stories, high-profile interviews, and in-depth, investigative features. From October 2005 to January 2010 Leve wrote a weekly column under the title "Cassandra" for the Sunday Times Magazine. Prior to that, the column ran in The Guardian under the title "Half Empty".
The Cassandra Chronicles was published in the United Kingdom in August 2009 by Portobello, and in the United States by Harper Perennial under the title lieutenant Could Be Worse, You Could Be Maine.
Leve"s television pilot of lieutenant Could Be Worse, You Could Be Maine was optioned by Cineflix Studios. Leve"s work has appeared frequently in The Guardian.
She has contributed to Vogue (United Kingdom), Granta, the Evening Standard (United Kingdom), Elle, Marie Claire, The Wall Street Journal Magazine, The Jewish Chronicle, The New York Observer, Psychologies, and other publications. Feature articles by Leve have covered the aftermath of the Virginia Technical shootings, women who guard the women on Death Row, and a series of features on veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Interview profiles have included Mike Nichols, Martin Scorsese, Arthur Miller, Bill Nighy (cover), Tom Cruise (cover), Dan Rather, Quentin Tarantino, Tim Burton, Mickey Rourke (cover), Richard Pryor (cover), Elton John (cover), Christopher Walken, Dustin Hoffman, Jessica Lange, Edward Norton, John Irving, and many others
Since January 2010, Leve has been writing "The Fussy Eater" column which appears in the Observer Food Monthly.
She has been shortlisted for the British Press three times: for Interviewer of the Year (2005 and 2010), and for Feature Writer of the Year, (2008). She has been Highly Commended by the British Press twice: for Feature Writer (2008) and for Interviewer of the Year in the Sunday Times Magazine (2010). Leve was named Feature Writer of the Year from the Magazine Design and Journalism (2008).
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