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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.


Priyanka Champaneri on Setting as the Genesis of Her Novel

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March 22, 2021  By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing 
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Alan Lightman on Our Obligation to Record the Majesty of the Cosmos

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March 15, 2021  By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing 
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George Saunders on Thinking of Story as Ceremony

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March 8, 2021  By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing 
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Natalie West on the False Binary of Sex Work Narratives

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March 1, 2021  By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing 
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Why Eley Williams Recommends Reading Dictionaries Cover to Cover

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February 22, 2021  By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing 
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Te-Ping Chen: The Lived of Experience of China is More Brave New World Than 1984

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February 16, 2021  By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing 
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Ben Okri on the Strange Magic of Our Preoccupations

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February 8, 2021  By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing 
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Mateo Askaripour on the Toll of Racism in the Workplace

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February 1, 2021  By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing 
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Peter Ho Davies on Writing a Book That Hovers Between Fiction and Fact

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January 25, 2021  By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing 
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Mark Wunderlich on the Resurrecting Powers of Poetry

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January 19, 2021  By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing 
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Jamie Harrison on Leaving Easter Eggs for Readers

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January 11, 2021  By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing 
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Emma Glass on the Ghost Story (and Nursing Career) That Inspired Her Novel

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January 4, 2021  By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing 
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Kwame Alexander on Learning, from a Young Age, to ‘Use His Words’

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December 28, 2020  By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing 
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Danielle Evans on Writing Into Power Dynamics

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December 21, 2020  By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing 
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Cynan Jones on the Strange Visions That Appear in
His Novels

In Conversation with Mitzi Rapkin on the First Draft Podcast
December 14, 2020  By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing 
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Jonathan Lethem on the Wishfulness of Dystopian Fiction

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December 7, 2020  By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing 
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Charles Baxter on Creating Wonderland Fiction with the Help of (Fictional) Drugs

In Conversation with Mitzi Rapkin on the First Draft Podcast
November 30, 2020  By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing 
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Yishai Sarid on the Haunting Questions That Propelled His New Book

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November 23, 2020  By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing 
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Susan Minot: ‘Worship Is a Nicer Word than Obsession’

In Conversation with Mitzi Rapkin on the First Draft Podcast
November 16, 2020  By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing 
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Bryan Washington on Giving His Characters the Capacity for Love, Even When They Don’t Have the Language for It

In Conversation with Mitzi Rapkin on the First Draft Podcast
November 9, 2020  By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing 
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