L.A. Times Book Prize Winners

Edan Lepucki - 5.2.2011

Reviews

Man Hands: Thoughts on Tina Fey’s Bossypants

Edan Lepucki - 4.29.2011 | 11

It became clear to me, over the two days that I lapped up this book, that Tina Fey is a true comedic genius, but she isn't a master of prose. Bossypants was a delight, but it lacked power, intention.

Edan Lepucki - 4.29.2011 | 11

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Curiosities

Los Angeles Times Festival of Books

Edan Lepucki - 4.27.2011

Essays

Going Native: Writing Place in Los Angeles

Edan Lepucki - 4.20.2011 | 32

the distance any of us non-New York writers have from New York is frustrating, but also valuable. There's an option to retreat from the noise--or, okay, the music--that I don't think a writer in, say, Brooklyn has. This distance has benefited me for the last four years, as I write and write, without looking up, or around, me.

Edan Lepucki - 4.20.2011 | 32

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Staff Picks

Staff Pick: The Patterns of Paper Monsters by Emma Rathbone

Edan Lepucki - 3.31.2011 | 7

I longed for a contemporary novel about contemporary life. I longed for references to malls, and to boners, and to "intense cell phones" and to a pillow made of denim with an actual jeans pocket on the front, "like it thinks it's Bruce Springsteen."

Edan Lepucki - 3.31.2011 | 7

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Essays

Birth Stories: On Books About Having a Baby

Edan Lepucki - 3.16.2011 | 15

Now that I'm pregnant myself (26 weeks along at the time of this writing), it's becoming increasingly clear that the stories women hear about childbirth affect their attitudes about it.

Edan Lepucki - 3.16.2011 | 15

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Lists

No More Model Airplanes: Essential Writing about Writing

Edan Lepucki - 2.23.2011 | 16

There's technique, but there's also passion, soul, grace, daring.

Edan Lepucki - 2.23.2011 | 16

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Curiosities

Authors Helping Authors

Edan Lepucki - 2.13.2011

Essays

MFA Grads and Former Acrobats: Approaches to the Author Bio

Edan Lepucki - 2.10.2011 | 37

The truth is, every published writer has been faced with summing themselves up in just a few sentences. It's not easy, and a bio isn't a fixed thing--or at least not until you're dead. Until then, it (hopefully) evolves with each new publication, each year lived. The decision of what to include and exclude persists throughout one's career.

Edan Lepucki - 2.10.2011 | 37

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Curiosities

Trystero Coffee

Edan Lepucki - 1.13.2011

Essays

Writing from the Garret: The Joys and Dangers of Readership

Edan Lepucki - 1.12.2011 | 7

I've been wondering a lot about how sharing one's writing with a larger audience alters one's process--how having multiple readers, a potential world of them, can strengthen that process, and challenge it, and how it can also, if you aren't careful, wound and compromise it.

Edan Lepucki - 1.12.2011 | 7

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Year in Reading