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Mona Simpson on Reimagining Mental Health Hospitals in Her New Novel

In Conversation with Mitzi Rapkin on the First Draft Podcast

 
By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   May 22, 2023
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Abraham Verghese on Medicine’s Innate Connection to Storytelling

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   May 15, 2023
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Passing Through Porous Boundaries: Mai Nardone on Navigating Thai and American Culture

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   May 8, 2023
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Ann Lauterbach: On the Value of Effective Language After Trump’s Presidency

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   May 1, 2023
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Andrew Porter on the Strange Nature of Short Stories Mirroring Each Other

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   April 24, 2023
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No One’s Suffering is Banal: Cathleen Schine on the Intricacy of Writing Trauma

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   April 17, 2023
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Maggie Smith on How She Approached Plot in Her Memoir

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   April 10, 2023
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Clint Smith: “What Does it Mean to Carry Wonder and Despair in Your Body at the Same Time?”

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   April 3, 2023
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Robert Lopez on Life Before We’re Born and Why Memory is Like a Failed Method Actor

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   March 27, 2023
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“Gray Area is What Novels Can Do That Twitter Cannot.” Rebecca Makkai on Incorporating #MeToo in Her New Novel

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   March 20, 2023
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Field Notes for Surviving a Family Cult: Michelle Dowd Revisits Her Childhood in Forager

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   March 13, 2023
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Pointing in the Direction of Truth: Jai Chakrabarti on Crafting Endings

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   March 6, 2023
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Susan Griffin on Earning an Ending and How Writing is Akin to Carpentry

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   February 27, 2023
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Matthew Salesses: Setting Restrictions Leads You to Narrative Possibilities

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   February 21, 2023
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Kathryn Ma on Portraying Asian-Americans Positively and the “Messiness That is Life in Any Community”

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   February 13, 2023
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Katherine Standefer on the Careful Conversations Required of Writing Memoir

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   February 7, 2023
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Peter Turchi on Writerly Digression and Charming Sentences

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   January 30, 2023
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Blair Braverman: What Does Survival Mean?

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   January 23, 2023
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Stephanie Feldman: Is the Way We Celebrate Fueled by Fear?

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   January 17, 2023
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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

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

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

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   January 3, 2023
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Namwali Serpell on the “Uncanny Rhythm” of Poetry and Grief

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   December 19, 2022
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Elizabeth Strout: How Her Imagination as a Child Has Steered Her Writing Career

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   December 12, 2022
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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

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   December 5, 2022
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