SEEKING REPRESENTATION
The Rainmaker’s Laboratory
AMY LEAVITT
ABOUT THE BOOK
The Rainmaker’s Laboratory is a curated selection and striking montage of a saleswoman’s lab notes that capture the unruliness of philosophical inquiry. In conversation with William Shakespeare, Samuel Beckett, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Clarice Lispector, Lewis Hyde, and Iain McGilchrist, it revolves around themes of rhythm, risk, ambivalence, beauty, and above all, the intricacies of language. It is composed of questions, anecdotes, transcripts, analogies, interruptions, memories, aphorisms, theatrical scenes, introspective revelations, and snatches of song. Offering an antidote to the clatter of algorithms and AI, it invites readers to consider their own daily predicaments and presence amid a world of selling and being sold.
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ABOUT AMY LEAVITT
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Amy Leavitt is an award-winning financial advisor and voice teacher, with five decades of experience in corporate boardrooms and conference rooms, theater rehearsal rooms and classrooms. She holds a BA from Dartmouth College in Philosophy and Language, and is an alumna of The Writers’ Institute at The Graduate Center, CUNY. Here is a link to her 2019 article in Voice and Speech Review. She has been surprised to find that her work with the human voice places her in the same laboratory of puzzlement, conducting the same investigations, as her rainmaking work—affirming Oliver and Young’s words: ‘Tain’t What You Do (It’s the Way That You Do It).