First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing

By Mitzi RapkinArts Books

First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing episodes

February 25, 2019 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.

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43 min
February 18, 2019 FIrst Draft - Valeria Luiselli
Valeria Luiselli is the author of The Lost Children Archive. She is a fiction writer, journalist, and essayist.

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57 min
February 11, 2019 First Draft - Madhuri Vijay
Madhuri Vijay is the author of the novel The Far Field.

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41 min
February 04, 2019 First Draft - Esmé Weijun Wang
Esmé Weijun Wang is the author of The Border of Paradise and The Collected Schizophrenias.

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41 min
January 28, 2019 First Draft - Merritt Tierce
Merritt Tierce is the author of the novel Love Me Back. Merritt currently writes for the Netflix show Orange is the New Black. She lives in Los Angeles.

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32 min
January 21, 2019 First Draft - Juliet Lapidos
Juliet Lapidos is the author of the novel Talent and is a senior editor at The Atlantic.

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37 min
January 14, 2019 First Draft - Christy Stillwell
Christy Stillwell earned a BA in English at the University of Georgia before moving west, first to Wyoming, then Montana. She holds an MA in Literature from the University of Wyoming, and an MFA from the Warren Wilson College Program for Writers. Her books include a chapbook of poetry called Amnesia and the novel, The Wolf Tone.

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38 min
January 07, 2019 First Draft - Tommy Caldwell
Tommy Caldwell is the author of The Push and is an accomplished rock climber. He made the first ascents of some of the United States' hardest sport routes including Kryptonite (5.14c/d) and Flex Luthor (5.15a) at the Fortress of Solitude, Colorado. In January 2015, Caldwell and Kevin Jorgeson completed the first-ever free climb of the Dawn Wall of El Capitan in Yosemite National Park.

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46 min
December 31, 2018 First Draft - Stuart Dybek
Stuart Dybek is the author of three books of fiction: I Sailed With Magellan, The Coast of Chicago, and Childhood and Other Neighborhoods. Both I Sailed With Magellan and The Coast of Chicago were New York Times Notable Books, and The Coast of Chicago was a One Book One Chicago selection. Dybek has also published two collections of poetry: Streets in Their Own Ink and Brass Knuckles.

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32 min
December 24, 2018 First Draft - Yiyun Li
Yiyun Li grew up in Beijing and came to the United States in 1996. Her debut collection, A Thousand Years of Good Prayers, won the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award, PEN/Hemingway Award, Guardian First Book Award, and California Book Award for first fiction. Her novel, The Vagrants, won the gold medal of California Book Award for fiction, and was shortlisted for Dublin IMPAC Award. Gold Boy, Emerald Girl, her second collection, was a finalist of Story Prize and shortlisted for Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award.

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33 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…