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Natalie West on the False Binary of Sex Work Narratives

In Conversation with Mitzi Rapkin on the First Draft Podcast

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

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

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

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

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

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   January 19, 2021
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Mateo Askaripour on Maintaining Plausibility in an Absurd World

By WMFA   January 13, 2021
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Jamie Harrison on Leaving Easter Eggs for Readers

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

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

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

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

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   December 14, 2020
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Jonathan Lethem on the Wishfulness of Dystopian Fiction

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

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   November 30, 2020
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Yishai Sarid on the Haunting Questions That Propelled His New Book

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

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

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   November 9, 2020
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Ken Bonert: The Regional Is Universal

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   November 2, 2020
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Bill Clegg on the Unknowability of… Well, Everything

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   October 26, 2020
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Claire Messud on Chekhov’s Best Advice

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   October 19, 2020
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Debra Spark on Doing the Research… Like Asking to See Strangers’ Apartments

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   October 13, 2020
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Rebecca Watson on Authors Being as Gods to Their Characters

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   October 5, 2020
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David Szalay: When One Central Character Isn’t Enough

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   September 28, 2020
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Peter Geye on the Concept of Longing in Fiction

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   September 21, 2020
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Cherie Dimaline on Representing Native Youth in Her Work

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   September 14, 2020
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