The Lives of Writers Autofocus Literary, Michael Wheaton

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.

Drew Hawkins interviews Maurice Carlos Ruffin. Topics include: book tour, previous life as a lawyer and restaurant owner, becoming a writer, paces of production, the usefulness of distraction, New Orleans, THE AMERICAN DAUGHTERS, knowing who you are, writing as a man about women, freedom and loss, and more.

Lena Crown interviews Richard Scott Larson. Topics include: blocking out time, writing as a critic, an early interest in horror, a crisis of fiction, memoir vs book-length essay, the new memoir THE LONG HALLWAY, visibility, hiding queerness, masks, Michael Myers/Halloween, loneliness and observation, film form, fear and shame, and more.

Aaron Burch interviews Jason McCall. Topics include: a recent bout with cancer, the rhythm of art and community, teaching, approaching writing as a fan, sports and pop culture, the essay collection RAZED BY TV SETS, the contradictions of fandom, collective celebration, playing with your offhand, and more.

Sara Rauch interviews Julia Hannafin. Topics include: writing for tv and a podcast, journaling as a kid, the debut novel CASCADE, quiet drama, danger, sharks in the Farallon Islands, predator/prey, desire, gender, place, addiction, time, and more.

Joshua James Amberson interviews Jeff Alessandrelli. Topics include: Portland OR, the podcast The Steer, Jeff's novel AND YET, working in poetry and prose, the SPD collapse, the issues at PANK that led Jeff to pull his novel, the reissue of the novel with Future Tense, writing as a publisher, and more.