First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing

By Mitzi RapkinArts Books

First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing episodes

May 06, 2019 First Draft - Molly Dektar
Molly Dektar is the author of The Ash Family.

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42 min
April 29, 2019 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.

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33 min
April 22, 2019 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.

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45 min
April 15, 2019 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

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34 min
April 08, 2019 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.

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39 min
April 01, 2019 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.

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44 min
March 25, 2019 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.

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33 min
March 18, 2019 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.

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36 min
March 11, 2019 First Draft - Eva Hagberg Fisher
Eva Hagberg Fisher is the author of How to be Loved: A Memoir of Lifesaving Friendship.

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45 min
March 04, 2019 First Draft - Pam Houston
Pam Houston is the author of Deep Creek: Finding Hope in the High Country.

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41 min

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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…