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The Lives of Writers
The Lives of Writers
Autofocus Literary, Michael Wheaton

Candid conversations with writers about their lives in and out of books.

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Episodes

Nick Rees Gardner [Host: Andrew Bertaina]

Andrew Bertaina interviews Nick Rees Gardner. Topics include: buying a store, morning vs evening writing, running, emo poetry, going to... more

30 Oct 2024 · 1 hour, 2 minutes
Tasha Coryell [Host: Jason McCall]

Jason McCall interviews Tasha Coryell. Topics include: seasons, ambience videos, re-shifting priorities, moving to thrillers, unpublished novels, relaxing about publishing,... more

23 Oct 2024 · 54 minutes
Juan Carlos Reyes [Host: Jason McCall]

Jason McCall interviews Juan Carlos Reyes. Topics include: reading as gateway, writing and creativity, temp jobs, academia, Seattle, Hinton Publishing,... more

16 Oct 2024 · 1 hour, 28 minutes
Jami Attenberg [Host: Drew Hawkins]

Drew Hawkins interviews Jami Attenberg. Topics include: the new novel A REASON TO SEE YOU AGAIN, ground rules, first lines,... more

09 Oct 2024 · 57 minutes
Kirsten Reneau [Host: Drew Hawkins]

Drew Hawkins interviews Kirsten Reneau. Topics include: the debut essay collection SENSITIVE CREATURES, different selves, sexual assault & gendered violence,... more

02 Oct 2024 · 57 minutes
Dennis James Sweeney [Host: Kristine Langley Mahler]

Kristine Langley Mahler interviews Dennis James Sweeney. Topic include: reading before bed, the forthcoming HOW TO SUBMIT, small presses, hybridity,... more

27 Sep 2024 · 1 hour, 9 minutes
Puloma Ghosh [Host: Kaycie Hall]

Kaycie Hall interviews Puloma Ghosh. Topics include: writing and illustration, elementary school notebooks, the short story collection MOUTH, being generous... more

20 Sep 2024 · 41 minutes
Tomas Moniz [Host: Joshua James Amberson]

Joshua James Amberson interviews Tomas Moniz. Topics include: engaging with an audience, a book tour/honeymoon, working with a bigger press,... more

12 Sep 2024 · 1 hour, 8 minutes
Jenny Irish [Host: Erin Slaughter]

Erin Slaughter interviews Jenny Irish. Topics include: Maine & Arizona, childhood imagination, academia, body scrutiny, the new book HATCH, having... more

05 Sep 2024 · 1 hour, 50 minutes
Ursula Villarreal-Moura [Host: Sara Rauch]

Sara Rauch interviews Ursula Villarreal-Moura. Topics include: teaching, learning to read like learning to drive, poetry, a move to fiction,... more

11 Aug 2024 · 1 hour, 11 minutes
Brooke Champagne [Host: Jason McCall]

Jason McCall interviews Brooke Champagne. Topics include: finding time, 20+ years of teaching, NOLA FACE, trying to quit writing, collecting... more

02 Aug 2024 · 1 hour, 8 minutes
Andrew Bertaina [Host: Mike Nagel]

Mike Nagel interviews Andrew Bertaina. Topics include: selves on the page, THE BODY IS A TEMPORARY GATHERING PLACE, evaluating your... more

23 Jul 2024 · 1 hour, 18 minutes
Mallory Smart [Host: Jeff Alessandrelli]

Jeff Alessandrelli interviews Mallory Smart. Topics include: growing up in Chicago, writing in high school, studying history and philosophy, logic... more

17 Jul 2024 · 1 hour, 9 minutes
Josh Denslow [Host: Aaron Burch]

Aaron Burch interviews Josh Denslow. Topics include: moving to Barcelona, formative places, the desire to share creative work, rejection, the... more

10 Jul 2024 · 1 hour, 27 minutes
Kristen E. Nelson [Host: Teresa Carmody]

Teresa Carmody interviews Kristen E. Nelson. Topics include: imperfect queer & trans narratives, calling in community, other voices, IN THE... more

17 Jun 2024 · 1 hour, 18 minutes
Justin Taylor [Host: Emily Adrian]

Emily Adrian interviews Justin Taylor. Topics include: growing up as a child actor, growing into a writer, a couple Donald... more

24 May 2024 · 1 hour, 7 minutes
Lucas Mann [Host: Michael Wheaton]

Michael Wheaton interviews Lucas Mann. Topics include: becoming co-owner of Riffraff Bookstore & Bar, community in Providence RI, the gap... more

09 May 2024 · 1 hour, 34 minutes
Maurice Carlos Ruffin [Host: Drew Hawkins]

Drew Hawkins interviews Maurice Carlos Ruffin. Topics include: book tour, previous life as a lawyer and restaurant owner, becoming a... more

03 May 2024 · 1 hour, 14 minutes
Richard Scott Larson [Host: Lena Crown]

Lena Crown interviews Richard Scott Larson. Topics include: blocking out time, writing as a critic, an early interest in horror,... more

24 Apr 2024 · 1 hour, 16 minutes
Jason McCall [Host: Aaron Burch]

Aaron Burch interviews Jason McCall. Topics include: a recent bout with cancer, the rhythm of art and community, teaching, approaching... more

19 Apr 2024 · 1 hour, 28 minutes
Julia Hannafin [Host: Sara Rauch]

Sara Rauch interviews Julia Hannafin. Topics include: writing for tv and a podcast, journaling as a kid, the debut novel... more

16 Apr 2024 · 57 minutes
Jeff Alessandrelli [Host: Joshua James Amberson]

Joshua James Amberson interviews Jeff Alessandrelli. Topics include: Portland OR, the podcast The Steer, Jeff's novel AND YET, working in... more

10 Apr 2024 · 1 hour, 8 minutes
Zachary Pace [Host: Michael Wheaton]

Michael Wheaton interviews Zachary Pace. Topics include: working in publishing, finding a subject, moving to essay from poetry, I SING... more

04 Apr 2024 · 1 hour, 1 minute
Ben Tanzer [Host: Sara Lippmann]

Sara Lippmann interviews Ben Tanzer. Topics include: small town insularity, the new novel THE MISSING, time, regimen, not being precious,... more

28 Mar 2024 · 1 hour, 23 minutes
Claire Donato [Host: Jeff Alessandrelli]

Jeff Alessandrelli interviews Claire Donato. Topics include: writing desks, publishing young, music, writing and not writing, KIND MIRRORS, UGLY GHOSTS,... more

22 Mar 2024 · 1 hour, 1 minute
Sean Enfield [Host: Michael Wheaton]

Michael Wheaton interviews Sean Enfield. Topics include: teaching, gardening, writing and music, HOLY AMERICAN BURNOUT!, writing about the classroom, information... more

15 Mar 2024 · 1 hour, 13 minutes
Joshua Marie Wilkinson [Host: Sara Rauch]

Sara Rauch interviews Joshua Marie Wilkinson. Topics include: working as a therapist, a previous life as a poet and teacher,... more

08 Mar 2024 · 1 hour, 10 minutes
Brian Allen Carr [Host: Mike Nagel]

Mike Nagel interviews Brian Allen Carr. Topics include: sobriety, Plano (TX), Edgar Allan Poe, a movie adaptation, learning a lane,... more

01 Mar 2024 · 1 hour, 15 minutes
Michael Wheaton [Host: Jeff Alessandrelli]

Jeff Alessandrelli interviews Michael Wheaton. Topics include: what in retrospect is quite obviously a mid-life crisis, pre-Autofocus experiences with literary... more

25 Feb 2024 · 1 hour, 11 minutes
Lauren Elkin [Host: Kaycie Hall]

Kaycie Hall interviews Lauren Elkin. Topics include: experience in the performing arts, the book FLANEUSE, the new book ART MONSTERS,... more

14 Feb 2024 · 42 minutes
Chin-Sun Lee [Host: Erin Slaughter]

Erin Slaughter interviews Chin-Sun Lee. Topics include: book tour, the fashion industry, debuting in your 50s, pressure, expectations, the novel... more

07 Feb 2024 · 1 hour, 6 minutes
Trey Moody [Host: Jeff Alessandrelli]

Jeff Alessandrelli interviews Trey Moody. Topics include: early writing, guitar, place, 19 MFA app rejections, his first book THOUGHT THAT... more

31 Jan 2024 · 1 hour, 10 minutes
Jehanne Dubrow [Host: Lena Crown]

Lena Crown interviews Jehanne Dubrow. Topics include: switching modes, teaching trauma writing, visual art, Rothko, EXHIBITIONS: Essays on Art and... more

24 Jan 2024 · 1 hour, 15 minutes
LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs [Host: Jeff Alessandrelli]

Jeff Alessandrelli interviews LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs. Topics include: Harlem, the Bay Area, music writing, play, finding buddies, the success... more

16 Jan 2024 · 1 hour, 27 minutes
Lindsay Hunter [Host: Aaron Burch]

Aaron Burch interviews Lindsay Hunter. Topics include: Halloween, the prospect of sex as a teen, a love of acting, the... more

09 Jan 2024 · 1 hour, 19 minutes
Mike Nagel [Host: Kevin Maloney]

Kevin Maloney interviews Mike Nagel. Topics include: writing junk mail, Vonnegut, DUPLEX, the new surprise follow-up book CULDESAC, bringing meaning... more

02 Jan 2024 · 1 hour, 17 minutes
The Autofocus Books Holiday Special

Autofocus Books authors Aaron Burch, Kristine Langley Mahler, Danny Caine, and Holly Pelesky read selections from their books [A KIND... more

22 Dec 2023 · 1 hour,
Lexi Kent-Monning [Host: Michael Wheaton]

Michael Wheaton interviews Lexi Kent-Monning. Topics include: working tech customer service, previous work with bands and celebrities, the CA/NY push-pull,... more

14 Dec 2023 · 57 minutes
Parker Young [Host: Mike Nagel]

Mike Nagel interviews Parker Young. Topics include: writing spaces, blame, unexplainable writing, tension, CHEAP THERAPIST SAYS YOU'RE INSANE (Future Tense... more

07 Dec 2023 · 1 hour, 4 minutes
Russell Brakefield [Host: Joshua James Amberson]

Joshua James Amberson interviews Russell Brakefield. Topics include: wonder and mystery, writing as job or identity, the concern of audience... more

29 Nov 2023 · 1 hour, 12 minutes
The Lives of Writers
Jehanne Dubrow [Host: Lena Crown]
The Lives of Writers
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Lena Crown interviews Jehanne Dubrow. Topics include: switching modes, teaching trauma writing, visual art, Rothko, EXHIBITIONS: Essays on Art and Atrocity, research... more