Best Mitzi Rapkin Podcasts (2024)

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First Draft: Megan Pinto 59:15

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Megan Pinto is the author of Saints of Little Faith, her debut collection. Her poems can be found in the Los Angeles Review of Books, Ploughshares, Lit Hub and elsewhere. She has won the Anne Halley Prize from the Massachusetts Review and an Amy Award from Poets & Writers, as well as scholarships and fellowships from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Confere…

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First Draft - Tracy O'Neill 55:07

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Tracy O'Neill is the author of the memoir Woman of Interest. Her novels include The Hopeful, one of Electric Literature's Best Novels of 2015; and Quotients, a New York Times New & Noteworthy Book, TOR Editor's Choice, & Literary Hub Favorite Book of 2020. In 2015, she was named a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 honoree and long-listed for the…

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First Draft - Charles Baxter (Returns Yet Again) 1:13:15

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Charles Baxter is the author of the novels The Feast of Love, nominated for the National Book Award, First Light, Saul and Patsy, Shadow Play, The Soul Thief, and The Sun Collective, and the story collections Believers, Gryphon, Harmony of the World, A Relative Stranger, There’s Something I Want You to Do, and Through the Safety Net. His stories ha…

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First Draft - Edwidge Danticat (Returns) 1:04:26

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Edwidge Danticat is the author of several books, including Breath, Eyes, Memory, an Oprah Book Club selection, Krik? Krak!, a National Book Award finalist, The Farming of Bones, The Dew Breaker, Brother, I’m Dying, Create Dangerously, Claire of the Sea Light, The Art of Death, Everything Inside, a Reese’s Book Club selection and National Book Criti…

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First Draft - Elizabeth Strout (Returns Again) 1:02:53

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Elizabeth Strout is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Lucy by the Sea; Oh William!, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize; Olive, Again; Anything Is Possible, winner of the Story Prize; My Name Is Lucy Barton; The Burgess Boys; Olive Kitteridge, winner of the Pulitzer Prize; Abide with Me; and Amy and Isabelle, winner of the Los Ange…

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First Draft - Richard Powers (Returns) 1:09:20

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Richard Powers is the author of fourteen novels, including Bewilderment, The Overstory, and Orfeo. He is the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, the Pulitzer Prize, and the National Book Award. He lives in the foothills of the Great Smoky Mountains. His new novel is called Playground. We talked about the ocean, plot and games, the structure of Pla…

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First Draft - Alan Townsend 1:04:04

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Dr. Alan Townsend is a scientist, author and Dean of the Franke College of Forestry & Conservation at the University of Montana. His writing has appeared in multiple national venues, including The Washington Post and Scientific American. Alan's nonfiction book is called This Ordinary Stardust. He is a highly cited author of more than 140 peer revie…

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First Draft: Natalie Goldberg 1:04:06

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Natalie Goldberg is the author of fifteen books, including Writing Down the Bones, which has sold over one million copies and has been translated into fourteen languages. She co-edited a collection of talks by revered zen teacher Katherine Thanas, The Truth of This Life. Her new book is Writing on Empty: A Guide to Finding Your Voice. We talked abo…

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First Draft - Lorrie Moore 1:04:36

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Lorrie Moore is the Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of English at Vanderbilt University. She is the recipient of a Lannan Foundation Fellowship, as well as the PEN/Malamud Award and the Rea Award for her achievement in the short story. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She lives in Nashville, Tennessee. Learn more a…

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First Draft - Jessica Shattuck 1:10:15

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Jessica Shattuck is The New York Times Bestselling author of the novels Last House, The Women in the Castle, a New York Times Bestseller, #1 Indie Next Pick, and winner of The New England Book Award; Perfect Life, and The Hazards of Good Breeding, which was a New York Times Notable Book, a Boston Globe Editor’s Choice Best Book of the Year, and a f…

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First Draft - Kaliane Bradley 58:33

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Kaliane Bradley is a British-Cambodian writer and editor based in London. Her short fiction has appeared in Somesuch Stories, The Willowherb Review, Electric Literature, Catapult, andExtra Teeth, among others. She was the winner of the 2022 Harper’s Bazaar Short Story Prize and the 2022 V.S. Pritchett Short Story Prize. Her novel is called The Mini…

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First Draft - Carl Phillips 1:05:15

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Carl Phillips is the author of 17 books of poetry, most recently Scattered Snows, to the North and Then the War: And Selected Poems 2007-2020, which won the 2023 Pulitzer Prize. His other honors include the 2021 Jackson Prize, the Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry, the Kingsley Tufts Award, a Lambda Literary Award, the PEN/USA Award for…

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First Draft - Jodi Picoult 1:09:04

3M ago1:09:04

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Jodi Picoult is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of 29 novels, including By Any Other Name, Mad Honey, Wish You Were Here, and My Sister's Keeper, and, with daughter Samantha van Leer, two young adult novels, Between the Lines and Off the Page. Picoult’s books have been translated into thirty-four languages in thirty-five countries. Picoult…

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First Draft - Abby Geni 1:00:46

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Abby Geni is the author of the novels The Wildlands and The Lightkeepers and the short story collections The Last Animal and The Body Farm. Her books have been translated into seven languages and have won the Barnes & Noble Discover Award and the Chicago Review of Books Awards, among other honors. Geni is a faculty member at StoryStudio Chicago and…

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First Draft - Jill Ciment (Returns) 1:00:59

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Jill Ciment is the author of Small Claims, a collection of short stories and novellas; The Law of Falling Bodies, Teeth of the Dog, The Tattoo Artist, Heroic Measures, Act of God, The Body in Question, and memoirs Half a Life and Consent. She has been the recipient of numerous grants and awards, among them a National Endowment for the Arts fellowsh…

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First Draft - Kevin Barry (Returns) 1:08:15

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Kevin Barry is the author of the novels Night Boat to Tangier, which was longlisted for the Booker Prize, Beatlebone, and City of Bohane as well as three story collections including Dark Lies the Island. His stories and essays have appeared in the New Yorker, Granta and elsewhere. He also works as a playwright and screenwriter lives in County Sligo…

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First Draft - Amitava Kumar (Returns) 57:11

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Amitava Kumar is a writer and journalist. He was born in Ara, and grew up in the nearby town of Patna, famous for its corruption, crushing poverty and delicious mangoes. Kumar is the author of several books of non-fiction and four novels. His new novel is My Beloved Life. Kumar lives in Poughkeepsie, in upstate New York, where he is the Helen D. Lo…

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First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing

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First Draft: Megan Pinto 59:15

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First Draft - Tracy O'Neill 55:07

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First Draft - Charles Baxter (Returns Yet Again) 1:13:15

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First Draft - Edwidge Danticat (Returns) 1:04:26

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First Draft - Elizabeth Strout (Returns Again) 1:02:53

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First Draft - Richard Powers (Returns) 1:09:20

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First Draft - Alan Townsend 1:04:04

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First Draft: Natalie Goldberg 1:04:06

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First Draft - Lorrie Moore 1:04:36

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First Draft - Jessica Shattuck 1:10:15

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First Draft - Kaliane Bradley 58:33

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First Draft - Carl Phillips 1:05:15

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First Draft - Jodi Picoult 1:09:04

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First Draft - Abby Geni 1:00:46

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First Draft - Jill Ciment (Returns) 1:00:59

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First Draft - Kevin Barry (Returns) 1:08:15

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First Draft - Amitava Kumar (Returns) 57:11

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