On today's episode of The Lives of Writers, Michael Wheaton interviews Zachary Pace.
Zachary Pace is a writer and editor whose first book is I Sing to Use the Waiting: A Collection of Essays About the Women Singers Who've Made Me Who I Am (Two Dollar Radio, 2024), and whose writing has been published in the Baffler, BOMB, Bookforum, Boston Review, Frieze magazine, Interview magazine, Literary Hub, the Los Angeles Review of Books, the PEN Poetry Series, the Yale Review, and elsewhere.
Michael Wheaton is the publisher of Autofocus Books and producer ofThe Lives of Writers. His essay Home Movies is out now from Bunny Presse.
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FULL CONVERSATION topics include:
-- going into the office
-- working in publishing
-- challenges of living in NYC
-- finding a subject
-- moving to essay from poetry
-- early writing tied up in other media
-- music as gateway into poetry
-- the new essay collection I SING TO USE THE WAITING
-- trouble
-- other people as mirrors
-- research in the writing process
-- growing up on media pre-internet
-- child psychology
-- celebrating the self and others
-- choosing essay subjects in a collection
-- continuing to write about music and listening
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Podcast theme music provided by Mike Nagel, author of Duplex and Culdesac. 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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