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Emma Straub is not an orphan.

By Edan Lepucki posted at 2:50 pm on August 31, 2009 0

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Edan Lepucki is a staff writer for The Millions. Her stories have been published in McSweeney's, Narrative Magazine, Meridian, and the Los Angeles Times Magazine, among others, and her novella If You're Not Yet Like Me, is published by Nouvella Press. She has an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and her novel, California, is forthcoming from Little, Brown. Learn more about her writing classes at writingworkshopsla.com.

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