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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 2, 2020
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Tishani Doshi: ‘Literature is a Conversation We Have With Other Writers Dead and Alive’

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   February 24, 2020
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Julia Phillips on Why She Wrote Disappearing Earth

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   February 18, 2020
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Jill Ciment on What’s Truly Interesting About Sex

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   February 10, 2020
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Luke Geddes on the Glamorous World of Antique Mall Proprietorship

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   February 3, 2020
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Ethan Rutherford on His Love for Short Story Collections

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   January 27, 2020
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Isabel Allende: ‘Few People Allow Themselves to Be Changed By Books’

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   January 21, 2020
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Jeannie Vanasco on Confronting Her Rapist, 14 Years Later

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   January 6, 2020
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Adrienne Brodeur on the Damage of Keeping a Secret

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   December 30, 2019
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Etgar Keret on the Power Struggle Between a Father and Child

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   December 23, 2019
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David Quammen on Why Darwin Was Wrong About Evolution

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   December 16, 2019
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Deborah Levy on Playing With Dimensions of Time

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   December 9, 2019
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Leslie Jamison on How Her 12-Step Experience Influences All Her Writing

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   December 2, 2019
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Amitav Ghosh on How Fiction Can Teach Us How Not to Suffer

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   November 25, 2019
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Nick Flynn on Avoiding Narrative Affect Disorder

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   November 18, 2019
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Kimi Eisele on Using Reality to Build a Post-Apocalyptic World

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   November 11, 2019
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Alexandra Fuller on What Home Means to Her

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   November 4, 2019
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Terry Tempest Williams:
‘We Are in a Moment of Such Lawlessness’

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   October 28, 2019
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Petina Gappah on Human Nature, Good and Evil

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   October 21, 2019
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Alix Ohlin on the Question That Inspired Her New Novel

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   October 15, 2019
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Nathaniel Popkin on the Trepidation of Writing His Latest Novel

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   October 7, 2019
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Téa Obreht on Abandoning a 600-Page Novel

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   September 30, 2019
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Caitlin Horrocks: What Happens When You Lose Everything?

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   September 23, 2019
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Helen Phillips on Her Dark Exploration of Motherhood

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   September 16, 2019
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Katie Arnold on Being a Runner, Mother, and Grieving Daughter

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   September 10, 2019
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