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First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing
First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing is a weekly show featuring in-depth interviews with fiction, non-fiction, essay, and poetry writers. First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing highlights the voices of writers as they discuss their work, their craft, and the literary arts. This weekly show hosted by Mitzi Rapkin is a celebration of creative writing and the individuals who are dedicated to bringing their carefully chosen words to print as well as the impact writers have on the world we live in.


Deborah Levy on Playing With Dimensions of Time

The Author of the The Man Who Saw Everything
on First Draft
December 9, 2019  By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing 
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Leslie Jamison on How Her 12-Step Experience Influences All Her Writing

The Make it Scream, Make it Burn Essayist
on First Draft
December 2, 2019  By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing 
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Amitav Ghosh on How Fiction Can Teach Us How Not to Suffer

The Gun Island Author
on First Draft
November 25, 2019  By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing 
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Nick Flynn on Avoiding Narrative Affect Disorder

The Author of I Will Destroy You on First Draft
November 18, 2019  By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing 
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Kimi Eisele on Using Reality to Build a Post-Apocalyptic World

The The Lightest Object in the Universe Author
on First Draft
November 11, 2019  By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing 
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Alexandra Fuller on What Home Means to Her

The Travel Light, Move Fast Memoirist
on First Draft
November 4, 2019  By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing 
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Terry Tempest Williams:
‘We Are in a Moment of Such Lawlessness’

The Conservationist and Erosion
Essayist on First Draft
October 28, 2019  By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing 
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Petina Gappah on Human Nature, Good and Evil

The Author of Dual Citizens on First Draft
October 21, 2019  By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing 
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Alix Ohlin on the Question That Inspired Her New Novel

The Author of Dual Citizens on First Draft
October 15, 2019  By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing 
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Nathaniel Popkin on the Trepidation of Writing His Latest Novel

The Author of The Year of the Return on First Draft
October 7, 2019  By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing 
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Téa Obreht on Abandoning a 600-Page Novel

The Author of Inland on First Draft
September 30, 2019  By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing 
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Caitlin Horrocks: What Happens When You Lose Everything?

The Author of The Vexations on First Draft
September 23, 2019  By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing 
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Helen Phillips on Her Dark Exploration of Motherhood

The Author of The Need on First Draft
September 16, 2019  By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing 
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Katie Arnold on Being a Runner, Mother, and Grieving Daughter

The Memorist of Running Home on First Draft
September 10, 2019  By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing 
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Kevin McIlvoy on Writing About Listening

The Author of At the Gate of All Wonder on First Draft
September 3, 2019  By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing 
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