It's Leonard, yes, and it seems a bit too coincidental: bandana, chewing tobacco, sincerity, etc., though Eugenides swears it's all incidental.

Closing Time was written about some after hours bar in Toronto that I can't remember the name of and which no longer exists. Information!

Plus "Memories" is the original "Teenage Dirtbag."

Nick Cave's The Boatman's Call.