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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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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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Vauhini Vara has been a reporter and editor for The Atlantic , The New Yorker , and the New York Times Magazine , and is the prize-winning author of The Immortal King Rao and This is Salvaged . She lives in Fort Collins, Colorado. Her new nonfiction book is called Searches . Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…
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Lisa Hofmann-Kuroda is a literary translator. Born in Tokyo, and raised in Texas, she is the co-translator of Ryke Akutagawa’s Kappa and the translator for Yuko Tsushima’s Wildcat Dome . She lives in New York City. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Lynne Tillman is a novelist, short story writer, and cultural critic. Her novels are Haunted Houses; Motion Sickness; Cast in Doubt; No Lease on Life , a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award; American Genius, A Comedy, and Men and Apparitions . Her nonfiction books include The Velvet Years: Warhol’s Factory 1965–1967 , with photographs by Stephen Shore; Bookstore: The Life and Times of Jeannette Watson and Books & Co .; and What Would Lynne Tillman Do? , a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism. Her new collection is Thrilled to Death . Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…
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Colum McCann is the Dublin-born author of thirteen books. He has won numerous international honors including the U.S National Book Award and an Oscar. His work has been published in over 40 languages. He is the co-founder of Narrative 4, a global non-profit that uses storytelling to build community engagement in schools around the world. His new novel is called Twist. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…
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Karen Russell is the author of six books of fiction, including the New York Times bestsellers Swamplandia! and Vampires in the Lemon Grove . She has received MacArthur and Guggenheim Fellowships and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Born and raised in Miami, Florida, she now lives in Portland, Oregon with her husband, son, and daughter. The Antidote is her second novel. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…
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Mai Der Vang is the author of Primordial, Yellow Rain , and Afterland . Her honors include th Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize from the Academy of American Poets, an American Book Award, finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry, the First Book Award from the Academy of American Poets, among others. The recipient of a Guggenheim and Lannan Literary Fellowship, she teaches in the MFA Program in Creative Writing at Fresno State. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…
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Erika Krouse writes fiction and nonfiction. Her book T ell me Everything: The Story of a Private Investigation won the Colorado Book Award for Creative Nonfiction and the 2023 Edgar Award for Best Fact Crime. Erika’s novel, Contenders , was a finalist for the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award. Her previous short story collection Come Up and See Me Sometime , won the Paterson Fiction Award, was a New York Times Notable Book of the year, and is translated into six languages. Her new short story collection is Save Me, Stranger. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…
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Sarah Gerard is the author of the essay collection Sunshine State , a New York Times Critics’ and NPR Best Book of the Year, a finalist for the Southern Book Prize, and longlisted for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award; the novels True Love and Binary Star , a finalist for the Los Angeles Times First Fiction Prize; a coauthored art book, Recycle ; and the chapbook The Butter House . Her new book of investigative journalism is called Carrie Carolyn Coco: My Friend, Her Murder, and an Obsession with the Unthinkable. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…
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Charlotte Wood is the author of seven novels and three books of non-fiction. Her novel Stone Yard Devotional was shortlisted for the 2024 Booker Prize. Her previous books include The Luminous Solution , a book of essays on the creative process; the international bestseller, The Weekend; and The Natural Way of Things which won a number of prizes including The Stella Prize and the Prime Minister’s Literary Award. Her features and essays have appeared in The New York Times, The Guardian, Literary Hub, The Sydney Morning Herald and The Saturday Paper among other publications. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…
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Paul Theroux is the author of many highly acclaimed works of fiction and nonfiction, including The Great Railway Bazaa r, The Mosquito Coast , Riding the Iron Rooster, and Mr. Bones : Twenty Stories. In 2015, Paul Theroux was awarded a Royal Medal from the Royal Geographical Society for “the encouragement of geographical discovery through travel writing.” His new short story collection is The Vanishing Point . Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…
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Lidia Yuknavitch is the National Bestselling author of the novels Thrust , The Book of Joan and The Small Backs of Children , winner of the 2016 Oregon Book Award's Ken Kesey Award for Fiction as well as the Reader's Choice Award, the novel Dora: A Headcase , a critical book on war and narrative, Allegories Of Violence, and the short story collection Verge . Her widely acclaimed memoir The Chronology of Water was a finalist for a PEN Center USA award for creative nonfiction and winner of a PNBA Award and the Oregon Book Award Reader's Choice. Her new nonfiction book is Reading the Waves . Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…
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Sarah Chihaya is a book critic, essayist, and editor. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, The Nation, New York magazine, The Atlantic, and The Yale Review, among other places, and she is the co-author of The Ferrante Letters: An Experiment in Collective Criticism. She has taught at Princeton University, New York University, and UC Berkeley. She is currently a contributing editor at Los Angeles Review of Books and lives in Brooklyn. Her new book is Bibliophobia. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…
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Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer has been writing and sharing a poem a day since 2006—a practice that especially nourished her after the death of her teenage son in 2021. Her daily poems can be found on her blog, A Hundred Falling Veils , or a curated version (with optional prompts) on her daily audio series, The Poetic Path , available with the Ritual app. Her poetry collection Hush won the Halcyon Prize. Naked for Tea was a finalist for the Able Muse Book Award. Her most recent collections are All the Honey and The Unfolding . In January 2024, she became the first poet laureate for Evermore, helping others through this platform to explore grief, bereavement, wonder, and love through the voice of poetry. She is the co-hosts of a podcast on creative process called Emerging Form. This episode was recorded live at TACAW in Basalt, Colorado. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…
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Alan Shapiro was born in Boston, Massachusetts and graduated from Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts. Shapiro has published fourteen poetry collections, including A Dress Rehearsal for the Truth ; By and By ; Life Pig ; Reel to Reel ; Night of the Republic , a finalist for the 2013 Griffin Poetry Prize and the National Book Award; and Old War , winner of the Ambassador Book Award. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…
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David Wroblewski is the author, most recently, of the novel Familiaris , his followup to the internationally bestselling The Story Of Edgar Sawtelle , an Oprah Book Club pick, Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers selection, winner of the Colorado Book Award, Indie Choice Best Author Discovery award, and Midwest Bookseller Association's Choice award, in addition to being selected as one of the best books of the year by numerous magazines and newspapers. This was recorded live at TACAW in Basalt, Colorado. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…
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