On today's episode of The Lives of Writers, Michael Wheaton interviews Lucas Mann.
Lucas Mann is the author of the new book, Attachments: Essays on Fatherhood and Other Performances, out just this week from University of Iowa Press. He is also the author of the books Captive Audience: On Love and Reality TV, Lord Fear: A Memoir, and Class A: Baseball in the Middle of Everywhere. He teaches creative writing at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth and co-owns Riffraff Bookstore & Bar in Providence, RI.
Michael Wheaton is the publisher of Autofocus Books and producer of The Lives of Writers. His essay Home Movies is out now from Bunny Presse.
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FULL CONVERSATION topics include:
-- becoming co-owner of Riffraff Bookstore & Bar
-- literary community in Providence, RI
-- figuring out how writing fits into a new life
-- the gap between the life and the writing about the life
-- his mom's non-fiction books for children
-- growing up with performers as a youngest kid
-- ambition (and having less of it now)
-- ATTACHMENTS: Essays on Fatherhood and Other Performances
-- writing about intimacy and the mediation of it
-- getting long essays right
-- juggling across an essay and a book
-- framing imaginative work as an essay
-- writing about parenthood, including the ugly parts
-- resembling a real human being
-- body image
-- overlapping thinking and feeling
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Podcast theme music provided by Mike Nagel, author of Duplex and Culdesac. Here's more of his project: Yeah Yeah Cool Cool.
The Lives of Writers is edited and produced by Michael Wheaton.
