Michael Wheaton interviews Lucas Mann. Topics include: becoming co-owner of Riffraff Bookstore & Bar, community in Providence RI, the gap between life & writing about the life, growing up reading and watching, ambition, ATTACHMENTS: Essays on Fatherhood and Other Performances, intimacy and its mediation, threading and/or juggling, writing about parenthood, resembling a real human, body image, overlapping thinking and feeling, and more.
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.