On today's episode of The Lives of Writers, Mike Nagel interviews Brian Allen Carr.
Brian Allen Carr is the author of eight books, most recently Bad Foundations, out now from CLASH Books. His other books include Opioid, Indiana, Short Bus, and Motherfucking Sharks.
Mike Nagel is the author of Duplex and Culdesac (Autofocus Books, 2022 and 2024). He also wrote the music for this podcast and a column called The Unintentionalist for the literary magazine Little Engines.
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Full conversation topics include:
-- sobriety
-- Plano, TX
-- retiring from middle school football
-- a family of preachers
-- Edgar Allan Poe
-- the first publication
-- the movie made from it
-- sustaining a creative life
-- a kind of arrogance
-- learning the lane
-- the new book BAD FOUNDATIONS
-- the invention of the elevator brake
-- grounded theory and work
-- sales
--putting things into the world
-- information and property
-- engaging or not in a political way
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Podcast theme music also provided by Mike Nagel. Here's more of his project: Yeah Yeah Cool Cool.
The Lives of Writers is edited and produced by Michael Wheaton.
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