The Lives of Writers

Sara Rauch

Episode Summary

Michael talks with Sara Rauch about the imaginative properties of creative nonfiction, writing into questions without answers, writing about affairs and heartbreak, the making of the second Autofocus book XO, trying to connect everything and make it mean something, dealing with the reality of with putting very personal writing into the world, and more.

Episode Notes

Michael talks with Sara Rauch about the imaginative properties of creative nonfiction, writing into questions without answers, writing about affairs and heartbreak, the making of the second Autofocus book XO, trying to connect everything and make it mean something, dealing with the reality of with putting very personal writing into the world, and more.

Sara Rauch is the author XO, the second book published by Autofocus, which is out today, so go check that out. She is also the author of What Shines from It: Stories, which won the Electric Book Award for Alternating Current Press. She lives in Massachusetts with her family.

Podcast theme: DJ Garlik & Bertholet's "Special Sause" used with permission from Bertholet.