The Lives of Writers Autofocus Literary, Michael Wheaton

Mike Nagel interviews Andrew Bertaina. Topics include: selves on the page, THE BODY IS A TEMPORARY GATHERING PLACE, evaluating your own work, modes of essay, mind as setting, representing others, good catalysts, speed, valuing the reader, and more.

Jeff Alessandrelli interviews Mallory Smart. Topics include: growing up in Chicago, writing in high school, studying history and philosophy, logic and therapy, a preference for narrative, starting Maudlin House, an app that forces you to write, I KEEP MY VISIONS TO MYSELF, pressure and nostalgia, and more.

Aaron Burch interviews Josh Denslow. Topics include: moving to Barcelona, formative places, the desire to share creative work, rejection, the novel SUPER NORMAL, humor and the reality of fiction, fun, and more.

Teresa Carmody interviews Kristen E. Nelson. Topics include: imperfect queer & trans narratives, calling in community, other voices, IN THE AWAY TIME, a later-in-life PhD, hybridity & divinations, the limits of the body, constraint, autobiographical experiments, timescape, personal disasters, and much more.

Emily Adrian interviews Justin Taylor. Topics include: growing up as a child actor, growing into a writer, a couple Donald Barthelme anthologies, his first books, the new novel REBOOT, realism, the supernatural, tv forms in the novel, a bottle chapter, Portland, Dawson's Creek, and more.

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.