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By Edan Lepucki posted at 3:08 pm on December 15, 2009 1
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Edan Lepucki is a staff writer for The Millions. She is a fiction writer and instructor living in Los Angeles, and her stories have been published in Narrative Magazine, Meridian, and the Los Angeles Times Magazine, among others. She has an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop, and an excerpt of her recently-completed novel, The Book of Deeds, won the 2009 James D. Phelan Award. Her novella, If You're Not Yet Like Me, is forthcoming this October from Flatmancrooked. Learn more about her writing classes at writingworkshopsla.com.
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at 3:57 pm on December 16, 2009
Wow, all those fancy handwriting fonts… you’d think they could have gotten a bunch of interns to write them up, but I guess you’ve gotta use ‘em if you’ve got ‘em.