Articles by Edan Lepucki
April 26, 2012
If It’s Free, Take It: 2012 World Book Night 4
It was going to be just me, a box of books, and Pico Boulevard. I was kind of scared.
April 24, 2012
Paradise Regained: An Interview with Lauren Groff 4
“I am in love with the gorgeous, elastic, leaping human brain that shuffles and connects disparate pieces of the world into a coherent story.”
March 30, 2012
Ask the Writing Teacher: The MFA Debate 17
If you decide not to apply to MFA programs, it can’t be because you fear getting rejected.
March 19, 2012
Finding Inspiration: A Homework Assignment 10
A novel-in-progress must have its aesthetic seductions (the shifting perspective, maybe, or the challenge of covering fifty years in ten pages, or the delight of a brilliant but unlikeable narrator), as well as some je ne sais quoi magic. You must remain inspired. How else to justify the slog?
February 14, 2012
Man-Eaters and Murderers: Vile Women in Fiction 14
True villains are a hoot, everyone knows that.
December 11, 2011
A Year in Reading: Edan Lepucki 5
Dana Spiotta is like Don DeLillo with a vagina, and, wow, that vagina makes all the difference.