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

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

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

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

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

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