The Lives of Writers

Michael and Ryan talk with Erin Slaughter and Lena Ziegler, editors of The Hunger, about collaboration and confession in their ongoing co-authored memoir project and in their individual work as PhD candidates.In this episode, we were still using the name, The Autofocus Literary Podcast.Podcast theme: Dj Garlik and Betholet's "Special Sause" used with permission from Bertholet.

Michael talks to David Shields, Nick Toti, and Rachel Kempf about The Very Last Interview (Shields's forthcoming book), film-adapted by Toti and Kempf and released this month. Shields is the author of over twenty books including Reality Hunger, Other People, How Literature Saved My Life, The Trouble with Men, That Thing You Do With Your Mouth, etc. While The Very Last Interview will not be released until early 2022 by New York Review Books, Toti released the 30 minute short earlier this month via Vimeo. In this episode, we were still using the name, The Autofocus Literary Podcast.Podcast theme: DJ Garlik and Bertholet "Special Sause" used with permission from Bertholet.

Michael and Ryan talk with Ariel Francisco and Alysia Sawchyn, both of whom released books in 2020 with Burrow Press, about autobiographical writing in poem and essay forms, among other things.In this episode, we were still using the name, The Autofocus Literary Podcast.Podcast theme: DJ Garlik and Bertholet's "Favorite Sause" used with permission from Bertholet.

Michael and Ryan talk with Teresa Carmody about her new book THE RECONCEPTION OF MARIE, autobiographical fiction vs. autofiction vs. Roman à clef, the history of the "novel-essay," and more.Teresa Carmody’s writing includes fiction, creative nonfiction, inter-arts collaborations, and hybrid forms. She is the author of three books and four chapbooks. Her writing was selected for the &NOW Awards: The Best Innovative Writing (2009) and by Entropy for its Best Online Articles and Essays list of 2019. In her writing, Carmody explores issues of spirituality, gossip, intersubjectivity and perception, queer relations, friendship, embodiment and the archive, intersectional feminism, and autofiction/autotheory.In this episode, we were still using the name, The Autofocus Literary Podcast.Podcast theme: DJ Garlik and Bertholet's "Favorite Sause" used with permission from Bertholet.

Michael and Ryan discuss their favorite kinds of autobiographical writing, the most recent thing they've read, the term Creative Nonfiction, process based on genre, and more.In this episode, we were still using the name, The Autofocus Literary Podcast.