Best mitzi rapkin Podcasts (2024)

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First Draft - Marie Mutsuki Mockett (Returns) 57:29

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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 …

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First Draft - Julia Alvarez 1:11:39

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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, a…

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First Draft - Lily Brooks-Dalton 1:04:02

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Lily Brooks-Dalton is the bestselling author of The Light Pirate, which was the runner-up for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, a #1 Indie Next pick, a Good Morning America Book Club selection, one of NPR's "Books We Love," and a New York Times Editors' Pick. Her previous novel, Good Morning, Midnight, which was the inspiration for the film adaptati…

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First Draft - Kiley Reid 1:06:13

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Kiley Reid is the author of Come and Get It and Such A Fun Age, which was a New York Times Best Seller and longlisted for the 2020 Booker Price. Her writing has been featured in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Playboy, The Guardian, and others. Reid is currently an assistant professor at the University of Michigan. We talked about reli…

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First Draft - Debra Spark (Returns Again) 52:55

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Debra Spark is the award-winning author of five novels, including Unknown Caller, which was picked for Maine’s statewide summer READ ME program. She has also published two collections of short stories; and two books of essays on fiction writing called And Then Something Happened and Curious Attractions. Her book reviews, short fiction, articles, op…

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First Draft - Téa Obreht (Returns) 1:04:38

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Téa Obreht is the author of the novel The Tiger’s Wife, which won the 2011 Orange Prize for Fiction, and was a 2011 National Book Award finalist and an international bestseller. Her novel Inland won the BRLA Southwest Book Award and the Ballard Prize. Her work has been anthologized in The Best American Short Stories and The Best American Non-Requir…

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First Draft - DIane Seuss (Returns) 1:01:56

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Diane Seuss is the author of the poetry collections Frank: Sonnets, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award; Still Life with Two Dead Peacocks and a Girl; Four-Legged Girl, finalist for the Pulitzer Prize; Wolf Lake, White Gown Blown Open; and It Blows You Hollow. Her work has appeared in Poetry, the Georgia Review, …

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First Draft - Sloane Crosley 57:23

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Sloane Crosley is the author of The New York Times bestselling essay collections, I Was Told There’d Be Cake, How Did You Get This Number, and Look Alive Out There and the bestselling novels, The Clasp and Cult Classic. She served as editor of The Best American Travel Writing series and is featured in The Library of America's 50 Funniest American W…

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First Draft - Temim Fruchter 59:46

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Temim Fruchter is a queer nonbinary Jewish writer who lives in Brooklyn. She holds an MFA in fiction from the University of Maryland and is the recipient of fellowships from the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, Vermont Studio Center, and a 2020 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer's Award. She is co-host of Pete’s Reading Series in Brooklyn. Her d…

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First Draft - Leslie Jamison (Returns Again) 1:05:43

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Leslie Jamison is the author of two essay collections— The Empathy Exams and Make It Scream, Make It Burn—a critical memoir, The Recovering, and a novel, The Gin Closet. She’s written for The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, Harper's, Oxford American, A Public Space, Virginia Quarterly Review, and The Believer. Her new book is called Splint…

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First Draft - Margot Livesey (Returns) 58:48

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Margot Livesey has published ten novels: Homework, Criminals, The Missing World, Eva Moves the Furniture, Banishing Verona, The House on Fortune Street, The Flight of Gemma Hardy, Mercury, and The Boy in the Field, and The Road from Belhaven. The Hidden Machinery, a collection of essays on writing, was published by Tin House Books in 2017. Livesey …

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First Draft - Kaveh Akbar 56:07

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Kaveh Akbar's poems appear in The New Yorker, The New York Times, Paris Review, Best American Poetry,and elsewhere. He is the author of two poetry collections: Pilgrim Bell and Calling a Wolf a Wolf, in addition to a chapbook, Portrait of the Alcoholic. He is also the editor of The Penguin Book of Spiritual Verse: 100 Poets on the Divine. In His no…

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First Draft - Ilyon Woo 1:09:51

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Ilyon Woo is the is the New York Times best-selling author of Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom, one of the New York Times’s “10 Best Books of 2023” and People Magazine’s “Top Ten Books of 2023. Woo is also the author of The Great Divorce: A Nineteenth-Century Mother’s Extraordinary Fight Against Her Husband, the Sh…

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First Draft - Jill McCorkle 1:04:27

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Jill McCorkle is the author of four short story collections and seven novels including the New York Timesbestseller Life After Life. Five of her books have been New York Times Notable books and her work has appeared in Best American Short Stories. She has written for The New York Times Book Review, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, Garden and …

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First Draft - Vanessa Chan 54:39

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Vanessa Chan is the author of the novel The Storm We Made and the story collection The Ugliest Babies in the World. Her other work has been published in Vogue, Esquire, and more. Chan grew up in Malaysia and is now based mostly in Brooklyn. We talked about researching her novel, family stories, the horror of WW II in Malaysia, young boys building t…

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First Draft - Antoine Wilson 57:04

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Antoine Wilson is the author of the novel Mouth to Mouth, which was featured on Barack Obama’s 2022 Summer Reading List. His other novels include The Interloper and Panorama City. His writing has appeared in The Paris Review, Quarterly West, and Best New American Voices, among other publications. He is a contributing editor at A Public Space. This …

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First Draft - Buzzy Jackson 1:06:12

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Buzzy Jackson has a Ph.D. in History from UC Berkeley and is a member of the National Book Critics’ Circle. Her debut novel is To Die Beautiful. She is currently working on a new novel based on a historical American true crime. This was recorded live at Paonia Books in Paonia, Colorado. We talked about World War II and Nazi resistance fighters in t…

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First Draft - Marie Mutsuki Mockett (Returns) 57:29

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First Draft - Julia Alvarez 1:11:39

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First Draft - Lily Brooks-Dalton 1:04:02

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First Draft - Kiley Reid 1:06:13

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First Draft - Debra Spark (Returns Again) 52:55

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First Draft - Téa Obreht (Returns) 1:04:38

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First Draft - DIane Seuss (Returns) 1:01:56

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First Draft - Sloane Crosley 57:23

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First Draft - Temim Fruchter 59:46

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First Draft - Leslie Jamison (Returns Again) 1:05:43

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First Draft - Margot Livesey (Returns) 58:48

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First Draft - Kaveh Akbar 56:07

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First Draft - Ilyon Woo 1:09:51

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First Draft - Jill McCorkle 1:04:27

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First Draft - Vanessa Chan 54:39

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First Draft - Antoine Wilson 57:04

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First Draft - Buzzy Jackson 1:06:12

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