Mitzi Rapkin

First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing

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First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing is a weekly show featuring in-depth interviews with fiction, non-fiction, essay, and poetry writers. First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing highlights the voices of writers as they discuss their work, their craft, and the literary arts. This weekly show hosted by Mitzi Rapkin is a celebration of creative writing and the individuals who are dedicated to bringing their carefully chosen words to print as well as the impact writers have on the world we live in.

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Mitzi Rapkin

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First Draft - Jennifer DuBois two 29.07.2019 47:35

Jennifer DuBois is the author of A Partial History of Lost Causes, Cartwheel, and The Spectators. The National Book Foundation named her one of its 5 Under 35 authors. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Playboy, Lapham’s Quarterly, American Short Fiction, The Missouri Review, The Kenyon Review, Salon, Cosmopolitan, ZYZZYVA, and elsewhere. A native of western M...

First Draft - Emily Bernard 22.07.2019 37:36

Emily Bernard was born and raised in Nashville, Tennessee. She holds a B. A. and Ph. D. in American Studies from Yale University. Her work has appeared in The American Scholar, The Boston Globe Magazine, Creative Nonfiction, Green Mountains Review, Oxtford American, Ploughshares, The New Republic, and theatlantic.com. Her essay collection is called Black is the Body: Stories from My Grandmother's...

First Draft - Christopher Castellani two 15.07.2019 58:29

Christopher Castellani is the son of Italian immigrants and a native of Wilmington, Delaware. He currently lives in Boston, where he is the artistic director of Grub Street, the country’s largest and leading independent creative writing center. He is the author of the novels: A Kiss from Maddalena, The Saint of Lost Things, All This Talk of Love, and Leading Men. He is also the author of The Art o...

First Draft - Laila Lalami 08.07.2019 41:17

Laila Lalami was born in Rabat and educated in Morocco, Great Britain, and the United States. She is the author of the novels Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits, Secret Son, The Moor’s Account, and The Other Americans. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

First Draft: George Hodgman 01.07.2019 35:12

George Hodgman is the author of Bettyville. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

First Draft - Tina Chang 24.06.2019 1:02:03

Tina Chang was raised in New York City. She is the first female to be named Poet Laureate of Brooklyn and is the author of the collections of poetry Hybrida, Of Gods & Strangers, and Half-Lit Houses. She is also the co-editor of the W.W. Norton anthology Language for a New Century: Contemporary Poetry from the Middle East, Asia, and Beyond. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adch...

First Draft - Devi Laskar 17.06.2019 34:46

Devi Laskar is the author of two poetry collections: Gas & Food, No Lodging and Anastasia Maps and the novel: The Atlas of Reds and Blues. She lives in Northern California. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

First Draft - Rachel Howard 10.06.2019 45:56

Rachel Howard is a writer of fiction, personal essays, memoir, and dance criticism. Her debut novel is called The Risk of Us. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

First Draft: Miriam Toews 03.06.2019 36:06

Miriam Toews is the author of Women Talking, Summer of My Amazing Luck, A Boy of Good Breeding, A Complicated Kindness, All My Puny Sorrows, The Flying Troutmans, and Irma Voth, and one work of non-fiction, Swing Low: A Life. She is a winner of the Governor General’s Award for Fiction, the Libris Award for Fiction Book of the Year, the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize, and the Writers Trust Mar...

First Draft - Meg Wolitzer 27.05.2019 30:54

Meg Wolitzer is the New York Times–bestselling author of The Interestings, The Uncoupling, The Ten-Year Nap, The Position, The Wife, and Sleepwalking. She is also the author of the young adult novel Belzhar. Wolitzer lives in New York City. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

First Draft - Joanne Ramos 20.05.2019 35:55

Joanne Ramos was born in the Philippines and moved to Wisconsin when she was six. She graduated with a BA from Princeton University. After working in investment banking and private-equity investing for several years, she became a staff writer at The Economist. The Farm is her first novel. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

First Draft - Nell Freudenberger 13.05.2019 38:28

Nell Freudenberger is the author of the novels Lost and Wanted, The Newlyweds, and The Dissident, and the story collection Lucky Girls, which won the PEN/Malamud Award and the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

First Draft - Molly Dektar 06.05.2019 41:27

Molly Dektar is the author of The Ash Family. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

First Draft - CJ Hauser 29.04.2019 32:09

CJ Hauser teaches creative writing and literature at Colgate University. She is the author of the novel The From-Aways and her fiction has appeared in Tin House, Narrative Magazine, TriQuarterly, Esquire, Third Coast, and The Kenyon Review. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

First Draft - Erika Meitner 22.04.2019 44:15

Erika Meitner was born and raised in Queens and Long Island, New York. She is the author of five books of poems: Inventory at the All-Night Drugstore, Ideal Cities, Makeshift Instructions for Vigilant Girls, Copia, and Holy Moly Carry Me. In addition to teaching creative writing at UVA, UW-Madison, and UC-Santa Cruz, she has worked as a dating columnist, an office temp, a Hebrew school instructor,...

First Draft - Cara Robertson 15.04.2019 33:02

Cara Robertson is the author of The Trial of Lizzie Borden. She is an attorney whose writing has appeared in The Boston Globe, the Raleigh News and Observer, and the Yale Journal of Law and the Humanities. She was educated at Harvard, Oxford, and Stanford Law School. A former Supreme Court law clerk, she served as a legal adviser to the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia at...

First Draft - David Means 08.04.2019 38:13

David Means is the author of several short story collections including Instructions for a Funeral, The Secret Goldfish, and The Spot and the novel, Hystopia. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

First Draft - Susan Orlean 01.04.2019 43:52

Susan Orlean is a staff writer at The New Yorker and her books include Rin Tin Tin, The Orchid Thief, and The Library Book, among others. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

First Draft - Jessica Soffer 25.03.2019 32:10

Jessica Soffer's work has appeared in Granta, The New York Times, Martha Stewart Living, Real Simple, Redbook, Saveur, The Wall Street Journal, Vogue and on NPR’s Selected Shorts. Her bestselling novel, Tomorrow There Will be Apricots, was published in twelve countries. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

First Draft - Sophie Mackintosh 18.03.2019 35:24

Sophie Mackintosh is the author of The Water Cure, which is on teh long list for the 2018 Man Booker Prize. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

First Draft - Eva Hagberg Fisher 11.03.2019 44:38

Eva Hagberg Fisher is the author of How to be Loved: A Memoir of Lifesaving Friendship. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

First Draft - Pam Houston 04.03.2019 40:16

Pam Houston is the author of Deep Creek: Finding Hope in the High Country. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

First Draft - Katrin Schumann 25.02.2019 42:16

Katrin Schumann is the author of the novel The Forgotten Hours. She is also the author of the non-fiction titles: The Secret Power of Middle Children and Mothers Need Time Outs, Too. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

First Draft - Madhuri Vijay 11.02.2019 40:42

Madhuri Vijay is the author of the novel The Far Field. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

First Draft - Esmé Weijun Wang 04.02.2019 40:07

Esmé Weijun Wang is the author of The Border of Paradise and The Collected Schizophrenias. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices