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First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing

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Douglas Stuart on Masculinity and the Long Literary Tradition of the Gang Novel

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   April 4, 2022
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Jacquelyn Mitchard on Hiding Mysteries in Plain Sight

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   March 28, 2022
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Why Having a Baby Led Evie Wyld to More Perilous Stories

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   March 21, 2022
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Lan Samantha Chang on Teaching, Tone, and Literary Generations

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   March 14, 2022
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Thrity Umrigar on Questioning the Rules of Objective Journalism

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   March 7, 2022
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How the “Tiger Lady” Profoundly Changed Susan Orlean

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   February 28, 2022
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Charlotte Wood on Exploring the Longevity of Female Friendship

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   February 22, 2022
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Anahid Nersessian’s Close Reading of Keats’s “Ode on a Grecian Urn”

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   February 14, 2022
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“Secrets Really Power a Book.” A Conversation with Steven Schwartz

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   February 7, 2022
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Peter Ho Davies on Why We Fear Revision (and How to Get Over It)

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   February 3, 2022
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“A Kind of Clash.” Tom Bissell on the Structure of His Short Stories

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   January 24, 2022
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Michael Bazzett on the Role of Comedy in His Poetry

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   January 18, 2022
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How Jean Hanff Korelitz Learned to Create Tension and Suspense on the Page

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   January 10, 2022
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Alice McDermott: Connection Is at the Heart of Why We Read and Write

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   January 3, 2022
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EJ Levy on the Complicated Life of James Miranda Barry

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   November 30, 2021
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“Living in America Is Like Living in an In-Law’s House.” Nawaaz Ahmed on Writing a Queer, Immigrant Story

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   November 22, 2021
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Kalani Pickhart on Writing the Complexities of the 2013 Ukrainian Protests

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   November 15, 2021
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Rebecca Solnit on Pleasure, Flowers, and Orwell

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   November 8, 2021
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“Nobody’s Free Until Everbody’s Free.” Keisha N. Blain on Lou Hamer’s Work and Life

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   November 1, 2021
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Lauren Groff on Maintaining the “Electric Jolt” of an Idea While Writing

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   October 25, 2021
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Richard Powers on the Duplicity of Bewilderment

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   October 18, 2021
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“Thinking Outside the Brain.” Annie Murphy Paul Discusses Her New Book

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   October 12, 2021
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Peter Orner on the Pressure of Fiction’s Infinite Possibilities

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   October 4, 2021
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Grant Faulkner on Sin as Experimentation

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   September 27, 2021
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Kevin McIlvoy on a Novel Can Make Room for Dynamic Crowding

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   September 20, 2021
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