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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Apr 29, 2019 • 32min
First Draft - CJ Hauser
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
Apr 22, 2019 • 44min
First Draft - Erika Meitner
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, a computer programmer, a systems consultant, a lifeguard, a documentary film production assistant, and a middle school teacher in the New York City public school system. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Apr 15, 2019 • 33min
First Draft - Cara Robertson
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 The Hague and a Visiting Scholar at Stanford Law School Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Apr 8, 2019 • 38min
First Draft - David Means
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
Apr 1, 2019 • 44min
First Draft - Susan Orlean
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
Mar 25, 2019 • 32min
First Draft - Jessica Soffer
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
Mar 18, 2019 • 35min
First Draft - Sophie Mackintosh
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
Mar 11, 2019 • 45min
First Draft - Eva Hagberg Fisher
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
Mar 4, 2019 • 40min
First Draft - Pam Houston
Pam Houston is the author of Deep Creek: Finding Hope in the High Country. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Feb 25, 2019 • 42min
First Draft - Katrin Schumann
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
