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.