Lucas Mann interviews Jill Talbot. Topics include: a longstanding conversation, writing tables, writing and teaching as the same project, early life as a coach's daughter in Texas, coming to non-fiction, Jill's first book LOADED, turning a column into her new book THE LAST YEAR, writing about parenthood, life after end of the book, and more.
On today's episode of The Lives of Writers, Lucas Mann interviews Jill Talbot.
Lucas Mann is the author of three books, Captive Audience: On Love and Reality TV, Lord Fear: A Memoir, and Class A: Baseball in Middle of Everywhere. His fourth book, Attachments: Essays On Fatherhood and Other Performances is forthcoming around the spring of 2024. He is also the new co-owner Riffraff Bookstore and Bar in Providence, RI.
Jill Talbot is the author of The Last Year: Essays. She’s also the author of The Way We Weren’t: A Memoir and Loaded: Women and Addiction, the co-editor of The Art of Friction: Where (Non)Fictions Come Together, and the editor of Metawritings: Toward a Theory of Nonfiction. Her craft book, The Essay Form(s), will be published in 2024.
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PART ONE, topics include:
-- the longstanding conversation between Jill and Lucas
-- the old writing table and a new writing table
-- writing and teaching as the same project
-- being the daughter of a football coach and granddaughter of a minister
-- cheerleading as early identity and coming to non-fiction
-- Jill's first book, LOADED
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PART TWO, topics include:
-- the process of writing THE WAY THEY WEREN'T
-- turning the Paris Review Daily column THE LAST YEAR into a book
-- writing from the precipice
-- the challenge of writing about parenthood
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PART THREE, topics include:
-- navigating the intention of writing about a child
-- writing habits changing after her child leaving the house
-- the pandemic happening during the writing of the original column
-- stories that are and aren't yours to tell
-- life after the end of THE LAST YEAR
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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.
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