Heidi Julavits [Host: Kaycie Hall]

On today's episode of The Lives of Writers, Kaycie Hall interviews Heidi Julavits.

Kaycie Hall is the lead editor of our online journal Autofocus. She's also a writer and literary translator, whose work has appeared in Peach Mag, Neutral Spaces, Triangle House Review, and other journals. 

Heidi Julavits is the author of the new book Directions to Myself: A Memoir of Four Years, The Folded Clock: A Diary, and four novels, including the PEN Award-winning The Vanishers. She is an associate professor at Columbia University and the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship. She lives in New York City and Maine.

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PART ONE, topics include:

-- psychic boundaries

-- living and writing part of the year in Maine

-- Narnia and Enid Blyton books

-- writing young for the fun of it

-- the life of The Believer

-- writing novels and then writing The Folded Clock (memoir)

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PART TWO, topics include:

-- a book Heidi sold and was supposed to write

-- that book becoming Directions to Myself: A Memoir of Four Years

-- thinking about how to mother a boy / mother blaming

-- treatment of the same behaviors across gender

-- writing about your own children

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PART THREE, topics include:

-- Heidi's book tour on a boat

-- getting into video editing

-- the cutting involved in a current project

-- a dead French actress' estate

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Podcast theme music provided by Mike Nagel, author of Duplex. Here's more of his project: Yeah Yeah Cool Cool.

The Lives of Writers is edited and produced by Michael Wheaton.

Don't forget to check out Autofocus Books.