Lukas Gage pitched his memoir in the middle of the WGA and SAG strikes . “I think the birth of it was truly me being a little bit manic,” he says. But decisions during mania were nothing new for the actor. Gage has made a lot of big decisions while feeling a little “cuckoo.” Originally, he says he wanted to write a book of essays, but publishers were much more interested in a personal memoir — especially from someone comfortable with online overexposure and naturally candid (even if he is, at times, “unreliable”). In I Wrote This for Attention , out October 14, Gage charts his rise from attention-seeking child to attention-seeking adult with screwball details, willful humility, and plenty of lies. “It’s important to me to own up to it and admit that I’m a huge liar,” he says. “I just n

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