Edan Lepuckis's Reading List

"In 2022 I read Larry McMurtry's "Lonesome Dove" and told anyone who would listen how beautiful, moving and immersive it is. What a sense of place!"

"Have you ever smoked a joint and read Toni Morrison's "Sula" in a very hot bath, reveling in a single, rich paragraph for what feels like an hour? If not, may I suggest you try it?"

"I wish more readers would rediscover the vicious mother-daughter relationship in "Rhine Maidens." It's 1970s California (and Coalinga, Calif., no less!), which is basically catnip for me."

"I had a shirt made with a picture of Joy Williams's story collection "Taking Care" printed across the front."

"He gave me a copy of "Goodbye, Columbus," by Philip Roth. On the title page he wrote, "Edan, For the summer — Thanks." I was done for. We're married now."