On today's episode of The Lives of Writers, Joshua James Amberson interviews Tomas Moniz.

Tomas Moniz is the author of the novels Big Familia and, most recently, All Friends Are Necessary. He also edited the popular Rad Dad and Rad Families anthologies. He currently teaches at Berkeley City College and the Antioch MFA program.

Joshua James Amberson is the author of Staring Contest: Essays About Eyes, How to Forget Almost Everything: A Novel, a series of chapbooks, and the long-running Basic Paper Airplane zine series. He lives in Portland, Oregon where he runs the Antiquated Future online variety store and record label.

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FULL CONVERSATION topics include:

-- engaging with an audience post-publication

-- a book tour / honeymoon

-- working with a bigger press for the 1st time

-- zines and zine community

-- working on multiple projects

-- trying and failing to sell a book

-- growing up as not a reader or writer

-- the path to early zines and RAD DAD

-- writing and receiving letters

-- the new novel All Friends Are Necessary

-- editorial collaboration

-- playing with best and worst selves in fiction

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Podcast theme music provided by Mike Nagel, author of Duplex. Here's more of his project: Yeah Yeah Cool Cool.

The Lives of Writers is edited and produced by Michael Wheaton.