After writing anything, there's always that postpartum feeling of, "What do I do now?" - I think particularly for nonfiction writers. I feel myself pulled back to the same themes, sometimes even the same moments, and I'm not sure that I want that.
That idea of not being exactly who you write as is so crucial. Even looking at those words as I type them, it feels dirty, it feels like I'm admittin… - Lucas Mann
That idea of not being exactly who you write as is so crucial. Even looking at those words as I type them, it feels dirty, it feels like I'm admittin…
- Lucas Mann
For better or worse, I seem to gravitate toward writing about something or someone else, then have my own self shove its way into that story. It seem… - Lucas Mann
For better or worse, I seem to gravitate toward writing about something or someone else, then have my own self shove its way into that story. It seem…
Walter Benjamin talks about art losing its original "aura" in an age of mechanical reproduction. In writing memoir, we're taking something that happe… - Lucas Mann
Walter Benjamin talks about art losing its original "aura" in an age of mechanical reproduction. In writing memoir, we're taking something that happe…
I came to nonfiction through journalism. My first book was journalism, and it was so frustrating to me, while I was writing it, that I wasn't capturi… - Lucas Mann
I came to nonfiction through journalism. My first book was journalism, and it was so frustrating to me, while I was writing it, that I wasn't capturi…
After writing anything, there's always that postpartum feeling of, "What do I do now?" - I think particularly for nonfiction writers. I feel myself p… - Lucas Mann
After writing anything, there's always that postpartum feeling of, "What do I do now?" - I think particularly for nonfiction writers. I feel myself p…
There is something more important than the place being left. It's that swell of crushing emptiness that makes the insignificant seem anything but. - Lucas Mann
There is something more important than the place being left. It's that swell of crushing emptiness that makes the insignificant seem anything but.
Lately I've been thinking about the idea that all novels are, at least in some way, about the process of writing a novel - that the construction of t… - Lucas Mann
Lately I've been thinking about the idea that all novels are, at least in some way, about the process of writing a novel - that the construction of t…
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