![]() ![]() ![]() When I found out they were releasing debut novels around the same time (Edan Lepucki’s California is out July 8, and Julia Fierro’s Cutting Teeth was released earlier this summer), and that both of these novels took vastly different approaches to the two pertinent subjects in the author’s lives - community and parenting, as well as a wild card: apocalypse - I decided to do a joint interview.Ĭalifornia, set a little later this century in the withering eponymous state, follows a pregnant couple, Frida and Cal, from isolation to forced communitarianism in the midst of a slow apocalypse - an environmental and societal deterioration catalyzed by the anxiety-inducing trends in contemporary American existence. In my own circuitous attempt to be a writer, I’ve been a transient member of both Lepucki and Fierro’s communities. Through Writing Workshops Los Angeles and The Sackett Street Writers’ Workshop, both Edan Lepucki and Julia Fierro have separately fostered not-so-small writing communities within America’s two largest metropolises, where the reigning writing asylums are a) prohibitively expensive and b) prohibitively exclusive MFA programs. ![]() Julia Fierro - photo by Natalie Brasington ![]()
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