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Kevin Wilson's Rules for Writing the Absurd

Kevin Wilson's Rules for Writing the Absurd

In conversation with Mitzi Rapkin on the First Draft Podcast

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing | March 9, 2020

Jenny Offill's Obligatory <br>Note of Hope

Jenny Offill's Obligatory
Note of Hope

The Author of Weather in Conversation with Mitzi Rapkin on
the First Draft Podcast

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing | March 2, 2020

Tishani Doshi: 'Literature is a Conversation We Have With Other Writers Dead and Alive'

Tishani Doshi: 'Literature is a Conversation We Have With Other Writers Dead and Alive'

The Small Days and Nights Author
on First Draft: A Dialogue of Writing

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing | February 24, 2020

Julia Phillips on Why She Wrote <em>Disappearing Earth</em>

Julia Phillips on Why She Wrote Disappearing Earth

The National Book Award-Nominated Author
on First Draft: A Dialogue of Writing

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing | February 18, 2020

Jill Ciment on What's Truly Interesting About Sex

Jill Ciment on What's Truly Interesting About Sex

The The Body in Question Author
on First Draft: A Dialogue of Writing

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing | February 10, 2020

Luke Geddes on the Glamorous World of Antique Mall Proprietorship

Luke Geddes on the Glamorous World of Antique Mall Proprietorship

The Heart of Junk Writer
on First Draft: A Dialogue of Writing

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing | February 3, 2020

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

  • The Rest of Our Lives
  • Call Me Ishmaelle
  • This Is Where the Serpent Lives
  • Lost Lambs
  • Winter: The Story of a Season
  • The Score: How to Stop Playing Somebody Else's Game
  • Departure(s)
  • Fly, Wild Swans: My Mother, Myself and China
  • The Flower Bearers
  • Black Dahlia: Murder, Monsters, and Madness in Midcentury Hollywood

Ethan Rutherford on His Love for Short Story Collections

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing | January 27, 2020

Isabel Allende: 'Few People Allow Themselves to Be Changed By Books'

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing | January 21, 2020

Walter Mosley: 'Everyone Can Write a Book.'

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing | January 13, 2020

Jeannie Vanasco on Confronting Her Rapist, 14 Years Later

Jeannie Vanasco on Confronting Her Rapist, 14 Years Later

The Things We Didn't Talk about When I Was a Girl Memoirist
on First Draft

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing | January 6, 2020

Adrienne Brodeur on the Damage of Keeping a Secret

Adrienne Brodeur on the Damage of Keeping a Secret

The Wild Game Memoirist
on First Draft: A Dialogue of Writing

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing | December 30, 2019

Etgar Keret on the Power Struggle Between a Father and Child

Etgar Keret on the Power Struggle Between a Father and Child

The Fly Already Author
on First Draft: A Dialogue of Writing

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing | December 23, 2019

David Quammen on Why Darwin Was Wrong About Evolution

David Quammen on Why Darwin Was Wrong About Evolution

The Author of the The Tangled Tree
on First Draft

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing | December 16, 2019

Deborah Levy on Playing With Dimensions of Time

Deborah Levy on Playing With Dimensions of Time

The Author of the The Man Who Saw Everything
on First Draft

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing | December 9, 2019

Leslie Jamison on How Her 12-Step Experience Influences All Her Writing

Leslie Jamison on How Her 12-Step Experience Influences All Her Writing

The Make it Scream, Make it Burn Essayist
on First Draft

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing | December 2, 2019

Amitav Ghosh on How Fiction Can Teach Us How Not to Suffer

Amitav Ghosh on How Fiction Can Teach Us How Not to Suffer

The Gun Island Author
on First Draft

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing | November 25, 2019

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