Leland began writing I begin Anew in 1994, after friends told him about an unusual night they'd had at happy hour the previous night.  In fact, the first section of the book, the part that takes place in the bar of the Mexican Restaurant, is taken from this story almost verbatim.  He spent almost 10 years working on the book, and lost it in its entirety due to computer crashes on two separate occasions.  It was his own need to begin anew, along with the themes of the book, that inspired the title.

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