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28 maj 2024 · Today, Lucas Mann discusses his essay collection, Attachments, as well as Brad Pitt, being a dad but not a dumb dad, intentions vs. writing, fooling himself into writing, the usefulness of delusion, writing as excavation, Dr. Becky, his bookstore in Providence, Riffraff, and more!
Michael talks with Lucas Mann about becoming a father after his third book, Reality TV, the different modes of his nonfiction work, the importance of friction in writing, his newest and upcoming work, whether fragmentary autobiographical literature is a gimmick (no), and more.
16 kwi 2022 · Lucas Mann is the author of Attachments: Essays on Fatherhood and Other Performances, as well as three other books of nonfiction. He teaches creative writing at the University of...
Lucas Mann is the author of Attachments: Essays on Fatherhood and Other Performances, Captive Audience: On Love and Reality Television, Lord Fear: A Memoir, and Class A: Baseball in the Middle of Everywhere.
“Lucas Mann's Attachments works itself into the fleshy folds I’ve spent most of my life avoiding. The writing and vision are somehow welcoming and spectacular, yet the book’s greatest achievement might lay within the portals of entry created by Mann’s use of the comic.
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Lucas Mann was born in New York City and received his MFA from the University of Iowa, where he was the Provost’s Visiting Writer in Nonfiction. His essays and stories have appeared in or are forthcoming from Wigleaf, Barrelhouse, New South, Columbia: A Journal of Literature and Art, and The Kenyon Review.
