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First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing

First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing
First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing is a literary podcast produced and hosted by Mitzi Rapkin. Each episode features an in-depth interview with a fiction, non-fiction, essay, or poetry writer. The show is equal parts investigation into the craft of writing and conversation about the topics of an author’s work.


Peter Turchi on Writerly Digression and Charming Sentences

In Conversation with Mitzi Rapkin on the First Draft Podcast
January 30, 2023  By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing 
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Blair Braverman: What Does Survival Mean?

In Conversation with Mitzi Rapkin on the First Draft Podcast
January 23, 2023  By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing 
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Stephanie Feldman: Is the Way We Celebrate Fueled by Fear?

In Conversation with Mitzi Rapkin on the First Draft Podcast
January 17, 2023  By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing 
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“The Best Story I’ve Ever Written is the One I’m Going to Write Next.” Jack Driscoll on His Stylistic Expansion

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January 9, 2023  By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing 
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Chris Belcher on Blurring the Lines Between Sex Work and Academia

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January 4, 2023  By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing 
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Peter Orner on Looking for “Solace in Remembering” and His Pursuit of Chronology

In Conversation with Mitzi Rapkin on the First Draft Podcast
January 3, 2023  By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing 
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Namwali Serpell on the “Uncanny Rhythm” of Poetry and Grief

In Conversation with Mitzi Rapkin on the First Draft Podcast
December 19, 2022  By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing 
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Elizabeth Strout: How Her Imagination as a Child Has Steered Her Writing Career

In Conversation with Mitzi Rapkin on the First Draft Podcast
December 12, 2022  By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing 
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“She Could Already Feel Herself as Being Part of the Next World.” Morowa Yejidé on the Interplay Between Life and Death

In Conversation with Mitzi Rapkin on the First Draft Podcast
December 5, 2022  By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing 
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Elizabeth McCracken on Grieving Her Mother Through Writing

In Conversation with Mitzi Rapkin on the First Draft Podcast
November 28, 2022  By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing 
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Omer Friedlander on Listening to Your Characters

In Conversation with Mitzi Rapkin on the First Draft Podcast
November 21, 2022  By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing 
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Ross Gay: “It’s Never Been the Institutions, It’s Always Been Our Neighbor.”

In Conversation with Mitzi Rapkin on the First Draft Podcast
November 14, 2022  By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing 
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Tracy K. Smith on Pursuing a Reconfiguration of the American Imagination

In Conversation with Mitzi Rapkin on the First Draft Podcast
November 7, 2022  By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing 
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“How Do They Explain Themselves to Themselves?” Stacey D’Erasmo on Writing a Financial Crime Novel

In Conversation with Mitzi Rapkin on the First Draft Podcast
October 31, 2022  By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing 
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“You Find a Way to Be Distinctive.” George Saunders on His Writerly Evolution

In Conversation with Mitzi Rapkin on the First Draft Podcast
October 24, 2022  By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing 
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Andrea Barrett on Needing Stories to Weave Together the “Jumble of Perceptions”

In Conversation with Mitzi Rapkin on the First Draft Podcast
October 17, 2022  By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing 
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Remembering the Late Novelist, Short Story Writer, and Poet Kevin McIlvoy

In Conversation with Mitzi Rapkin on the First Draft Podcast
October 11, 2022  By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing 
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Katie Runde on Trusting the Reader Will Extrapolate

In Conversation with Mitzi Rapkin on the First Draft Podcast
October 3, 2022  By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing 
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Jonathan Escoffery on Playing Out Some of His Worst Fears on the Page

In Conversation with Mitzi Rapkin on the First Draft Podcast
September 26, 2022  By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing 
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Jill Bialosky on Mentoring Young Women Through Her Writing

In Conversation with Mitzi Rapkin on the First Draft Podcast
September 19, 2022  By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing 
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