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First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing

By: Mitzi Rapkin
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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 - Anne Lamott

    First Draft - Anne Lamott
    Apr 29 2024
    Anne Lamott is the author of 20 books, which include fiction and nonfiction. Her novels include Hard Laughter, Blue Shoe, and Imperfect Birds. Her nonfiction titles include Operating Instructions, Bird by Bird, Almost Everything: Notes on Hope and the newly released Somehow: Thoughts on Love. She has been awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship and was inducted into the California Hall of Fame in 2010. We talked about love, call and response, writing craft, secrets, the solace and inspiration of reading, novels and nonfiction, Ms. Magazine, and poetry. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    59 mins
  • First Draft - Marie Mutsuki Mockett (Returns)

    First Draft - Marie Mutsuki Mockett (Returns)
    Apr 22 2024
    Marie Mutsuki Mockett is the author of the novels Picking Bones from the Ash and The Tree Doctor. Her nonfiction books include American Harvest, which won the Nebraska Book Award, and Where the Dead Pause, and the Japanese Say Goodbye, which was a finalist for the PEN Open Book Award. We talked about writing about nature, sex, loss, cross-cultural influences, Japan, and binaries. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    57 mins
  • First Draft - Julia Alvarez

    First Draft - Julia Alvarez
    Apr 15 2024
    Julia Alvarez has written novels including How the García Girls Lost Their Accents, In the Time of the Butterflies, ¡Yo!, In the Name of Salomé, Saving the World, Afterlife, collections of poems including Homecoming, The Other Side/ El Otro Lado, The Woman I Kept to Myself, nonfiction works including Something to Declare, Once Upon A Quinceañera, and A Wedding in Haiti, and numerous books for young readers including the Tía Lola Stories series, Before We Were Free, finding miracles, Return to Sender and Where Do They Go? Her new novel is The Cemetery of Untold Stories. In 2013, she received the National Medal of Arts from President Obama. We talked about Julia's childhood, her parents reaction to her fiction, telling stories, aging, creativity, the stories we can pass on, and writing craft. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    1 hr and 12 mins
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Loved the soothing voices of the speakers

As a writer I really appreciated the insightful answers to the thoughtful questions asked by Mitzi. As a woman I struggle like all women for our true place in society and the constrained boxes we are put in by men and each other who judge our worth based on desireability. The more confined we are the more we have to look inward so in someways that confinement serves as a cocoon physically but forces us to mentally break free enabling us to use that body to express whats inside.

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