Arts Interview: Edan Lepucki | It’s A Question Of Balance 18 July 2015

Broadcast on 18 July 2015 on KSCO AM 1080, KOMY AM 1340 and KSCO.com Live Stream.

'It's A Question Of Balance' is a two hour show which balances the intellectual with the creative. The show combines a debate topic with an arts interview because discussion and creativity are two of the most vital ways we engage in the world. 

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Hour 2: In-Depth Arts Interview with Edan Lepucki

This week as her special guest from the arts Ruth Copland is pleased to be interviewing best-selling author Edan Lepucki. Edan’s debut novel California is one of the most pre-ordered debut novels in the history of publisher Hachette, and graced the New York Times best-seller list as well as many media best books of the summer lists and Huffington Post’s 30 books you need to read in 2014. A post-apocalyptic story, described by Sarah Stone of the San Francisco Chronicle as depicting the “moment-by-moment reality of a painful possible future, the price we may have to pay for our passionate devotion to all of the wrong things”, California has recently been released as a paperback after its hardback success. A graduate of Oberlin College and the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop, Edan’s fiction and nonfiction have been published in Narrative Magazine, The New York Times, and McSweeney’s, among others. She is a staff writer for the literary website The Millions and is the founder and co-director of Writing Workshops Los Angeles, which describes itself as ‘a private writing school for the brave, enthusiastic and talented’. In 2009 she won the James D. Phelan Award, and in March of 2011, she won second place in the 3 Quarks Daily Arts and Literature Prize for her essay, “Reading and Race: On Slavery in Fiction”. Her second novel, Woman No. 17, will be published in the Spring of 2017. 

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