First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing
Mitzi Rapkin
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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Nov 25, 2019 • 50min
First Draft - Amitav Ghosh
Amitav Ghosh is the author of nine novels, including Gun Island and the Ibis Trilogy, Sea of Poppies, River of Smoke, and Flood of Fire. He is also the author of six books of non-fiction. He was born on Calcutta and lives in Brooklyn and Goa, India. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Nov 18, 2019 • 46min
First Draft - Nick Flynn
Nick Flynn is the author of twelve books including the memoir Another Bullshit Night in Suck City and most recently the poetry collection, I Will Destroy You. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Nov 11, 2019 • 48min
First Draft - Kimi Eisele
Kimi Eisele is the author of the debut novel The Lightest Object in the Universe. She is a multidisciplinary artist based in Tucson, Arizona. She also works for the Southwest Folklife Alliance as a writer and editor. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Nov 4, 2019 • 41min
First Draft - Alexandra Fuller
Alexandra Fuller is the author of novels, memoirs, non-fiction, essays, and journalism. Her latest memoir is Travel Light, Move Fast, which focuses on the life and death of her father, an Englishman who settled in Africa. Fuller was born in England, grew up in Zimbabwe, and now lives in Wyoming. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Oct 28, 2019 • 53min
First Draft - Terry Tempest Williams
Terry Tempest Williams has written and edited over 20 books, including the essay collection Erosion, Refuge, and The Open Space of Democracy. Her work focuses on the natural world and the intersection between the environment and personal and national politics, spirituality, and family. She teaches at the Harvard Divinity School and lives in rural Utah. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Oct 21, 2019 • 51min
First Draft - Petina Gappah
Petina Gappah is an award-winning Zimbabwean author. Her novels include Out of Darkness, Shining Light and The Book of Memory. She has also written two short story collections and also writes journalism. She has a law degree and worked as an international trade lawyer. She lives in Harare. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Oct 14, 2019 • 51min
First Draft - Alix Ohlin
Alix Ohlin is the author of the novels Dual Citizens and Inside, which was a finalist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize. She lives in Vancouver and is the chair of the Creative Writing Program at University of British Columbia. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Oct 7, 2019 • 50min
First Draft - Nathaniel Popkin
Nathaniel Popkin is the author of three books of non-fiction and the novels, The Year of the Return, Everything is Borrowed, and Lion and Leopard. He also co-edited the anthology Who Will Speak for America?, which he also spoke about with co-editor Stephanie Feldman on First Draft. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Sep 30, 2019 • 54min
First Draft - Téa Obreht
Téa Obreht is the author of the novels Inland and The Tiger’s Wife. Her work has been anthologized in The Best American Short Stories and The Best American Non-Required Reading, and has appeared in The New Yorker, Harper's, and The Atlantic, among many others. She was born in the former Yugoslavia and now lives and teaches in New York. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Sep 23, 2019 • 45min
First Draft - Caitlin Horrocks
Caitlin Horrocks is the author of the novel The Vexations and the short story collection This is Not Your City. She is on the advisory board of the Kenyon Review and teaches fiction at Grand Valley State University and the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College. Subscribe to First Draft. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
