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Susan Minot: ‘Worship Is a Nicer Word than Obsession’

In Conversation with Mitzi Rapkin on the First Draft Podcast

 
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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Margot Livesey on Choosing the Right Idea for a New Book

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   September 8, 2020
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R.L. Maizes on Internalizing the Pain and Feelings of Animals

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   August 31, 2020
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Benjamin Nugent on Writing About Male Privilege After #MeToo

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   August 24, 2020
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Ursula Hegi on the Seam Between Bliss and Sorrow

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   August 17, 2020
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Souvankham Thammavongsa Wants Readers to Question What’s Real

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   August 10, 2020
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Michelle Bowdler: Why Does Rape Go Largely Uninvestigated?

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   August 3, 2020
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Sejal Shah on Making Oneself Visible in America

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   July 27, 2020
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Anne Enright on Losing Loved Objects to the Gaze of Others

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   July 20, 2020
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TaraShea Nesbit on What We Don’t Talk About in the Plymouth Narrative

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   July 13, 2020
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Marie Mutsuki Mockett on Embedding with American Christianity

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   July 6, 2020
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Mary South on Living With Your Grief

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   June 29, 2020
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Lori Gottlieb on the Relationship Between Narrative and Therapy

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   June 22, 2020
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Vanessa Hua on Writing and Understanding Diverse Characters

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   June 15, 2020
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Poet Jane Hirshfield on Facing the Abyss

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   June 8, 2020
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Sue Monk Kidd Searches for Divine Feminine Imagery

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   June 1, 2020
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Emily Nemens on Baseball and the Geological History of Place

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   May 26, 2020
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