Welcome. This site provides information on the novels Lucy and Bonbon (2022); Rising Stories (2015); Animals (2009/2010), as well as on the art book The Skyscraper and the City (2025). The site also includes selected other writings, and images of selected paintings. 

Some of the paintings on this site were included in "The Skyscraper and the City," a March 2008 exhibition at the Brooklyn Artists' Gym, Brooklyn, New York; all are included in the 2025 book The Skyscraper and the City. 

Full information on The Skyscraper and the City is available at 
https://broadviewpress.com/product/the-skyscraper-and-the-city/#tab-description

If you live in North America and would like to purchase the book through the Broadview Press website at a special 40% discount, use the coupon code LEPAN40 at checkout. 
(offer good only within North America)

Please feel free to contact me at don.lepan@broadviewpress.com. 

below: The Illinois Central poster that forms the basis of the Rising Stories cover image (and is discussed in Chapter 7 of the novel). I discovered this poster in 2008 when I found a mounted copy that had been thrown away; it was lying beside a dumpster in an alley beside Calgary's Grain Exchange Building.

above: The Sears Tower - detail from 
Chicago 2004.