The Lives of Writers Podcast
1) An Invitation to be Known: Erin Slaughter and Lena Ziegler discuss navigating disclosure, dignity, responsibility, compassion, and real-life risk in memoirs about trauma
Autofocus Books authors Erin Slaughter (THE DEAD DAD DIARIES) and Lena Ziegler (A REVISIONIST HISTORY OF LOVING MEN) interview each other about literary friendship, navigating disclosure, dignity, and...Show More
2) Reading around the Margins with Naomi Washer
This episode of The Lives of Writers is a recast of another podcast, Naomi Washer's Reading around the Margins. In episode 9 of Reading around the Margins, LoW host and Autofocus Books publisher Micha...Show More
3) Spring 2025
Autofocus Books publisher Michael Wheaton presents brief readings and various interview clips with the authors of the three Autofocus spring 2025 new releases: Erin Dorney (Yes I Am Human I Know You W...Show More
4) 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 college for drugs, leaving college for rehab, the story collecti...Show More
5) 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 Topics include: seasons, ambience videos, re-shifting priorities, moving to thrillers, unpublished novels, relaxing about publishing, running, LOVE LETTERS TO A ...Show More
6) 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, THREE ALARM FIRE, triptychs, collecting stories,...Show More
7) 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, family games, loss, time, phones, perspective, 1,000 Words of Summer, and mo...Show More
8) Kirsten Reneau [Host: Drew Hawkins]
Drew Hawkins interviews Kirsten Reneau. Topics include: the debut essay collection SENSITIVE CREATURES, different selves, sexual assault & gendered violence, the very personal, nature, images, animals...Show More
9) 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, photographs, Crohn's, THE ROLODEX HAPPENINGS, perfo...Show More
10) 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 to a past self, story changes through draft...Show More