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.