Interview with Tim Lucas - By David Kempf
When did you first become interested in writing? I was always interested in books and reading, but for the first twelve or so years of my life, I was focused on drawing, on art. I won some awards, a trophy and two blue ribbons. When I got into junior high school, my art teacher noted that my talent was in representational art so I would likely go into commercial or advertising art if I made a career of it. For some reason, this offended me and I realized it was true that I was only recreating things with my art; I wasn’t using it to express myself. It was around this same time that my reading graduated from comic books to film criticism and serious fiction. In my late teens I was working as the editor of the film section of a Cincinnati entertainment paper and became friends with one of our contributors, Robert Uth. Bob and I went to movies together and afterwards we would go to a coffee shop and talk about what we had seen. One night in 1974, he said, “I’m working on something; ...
