First Draft: A Dialogue On Writing podcast

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First Draft - Joanne Ramos32:23

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Joanne Ramos was born in the Philippines and moved to Wisconsin when she was six. She graduated with a BA from Princeton University. After working in investment banking and private-equity investing for several years, she became a staff writer at The Economist. The Farm is her first novel.

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First Draft - Nell Freudenberger34:56

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Nell Freudenberger is the author of the novels Lost and Wanted, The Newlyweds, and The Dissident, and the story collection Lucky Girls, which won the PEN/Malamud Award and the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

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First Draft - Molly Dektar37:53

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Molly Dektar is the author of The Ash Family.

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First Draft - CJ Hauser28:36

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CJ Hauser teaches creative writing and literature at Colgate University. She is the author of the novel The From-Aways and her fiction has appeared in Tin House, Narrative Magazine, TriQuarterly, Esquire, Third Coast, and The Kenyon Review.

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First Draft - Erika Meitner40:40

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Erika Meitner was born and raised in Queens and Long Island, New York. She is the author of five books of poems: Inventory at the All-Night Drugstore, Ideal Cities, Makeshift Instructions for Vigilant Girls, Copia, and Holy Moly Carry Me. In addition to teaching creative writing at UVA, UW-Madison, and UC-Santa Cruz, she has worked as a dating ...…

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First Draft - Cara Robertson29:29

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Cara Robertson is the author of The Trial of Lizzie Borden. She is an attorney whose writing has appeared in The Boston Globe, the Raleigh News and Observer, and the Yale Journal of Law and the Humanities. She was educated at Harvard, Oxford, and Stanford Law School. A former Supreme Court law clerk, she served as a legal adviser to the Interna ...…

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First Draft - David Means34:39

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David Means is the author of several short story collections including Instructions for a Funeral, The Secret Goldfish, and The Spot and the novel, Hystopia.

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First Draft - Susan Orlean40:18

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Susan Orlean is a staff writer at The New Yorker and her books include Rin Tin Tin, The Orchid Thief, and The Library Book, among others.

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First Draft - Jessica Soffer28:38

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Jessica Soffer's work has appeared in Granta, The New York Times, Martha Stewart Living, Real Simple, Redbook, Saveur, The Wall Street Journal, Vogue and on NPR’s Selected Shorts. Her bestselling novel, Tomorrow There Will be Apricots, was published in twelve countries.

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First Draft - Sophie Mackintosh31:51

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Sophie Mackintosh is the author of The Water Cure, which is on teh long list for the 2018 Man Booker Prize.

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First Draft - Eva Hagberg Fisher41:06

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Eva Hagberg Fisher is the author of How to be Loved: A Memoir of Lifesaving Friendship.

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First Draft - Pam Houston36:44

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Pam Houston is the author of Deep Creek: Finding Hope in the High Country.

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First Draft - Katrin Schumann38:43

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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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FIrst Draft - Valeria Luiselli52:28

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Valeria Luiselli is the author of The Lost Children Archive. She is a fiction writer, journalist, and essayist.

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First Draft - Madhuri Vijay37:09

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Madhuri Vijay is the author of the novel The Far Field.

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First Draft - Esmé Weijun Wang36:35

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Esmé Weijun Wang is the author of The Border of Paradise and The Collected Schizophrenias.

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First Draft - Merritt Tierce28:08

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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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First Draft - Juliet Lapidos32:55

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Juliet Lapidos is the author of the novel Talent and is a senior editor at The Atlantic.

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First Draft - Christy Stillwell34:23

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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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First Draft - Tommy Caldwell41:39

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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 ...…

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First Draft - Stuart Dybek28:10

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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: Stre ...…

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First Draft - Yiyun Li28:30

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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 f ...…

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First Draft - Tom Barbash35:02

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Tom Barbash is the author of the novels The Dakota Winters and The Last Good Chance, a collection of short stories Stay Up With Me, and the bestselling nonfiction work On Top of the World: Cantor Fitzgerald, Howard Lutnick & 9/11: A Story of Loss & Renewal.

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First Draft - Leif Enger38:42

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Leif Enger was raised in Osakis, Minnesota, and worked as a reporter and producer for Minnesota Public Radio for nearly twenty years. His newest novel is called Virgil Wander.

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First Draft - RO Kwon28:26

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R.O. Kwon’s first novel is called The Incendiaries. She is a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellow. Her writing has appeared in The Guardian, Vice, BuzzFeed, Noon, Time, Electric Literature, Playboy, San Francisco Chronicle, and elsewhere.

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First Draft - Cai Emmons34:02

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Cai Emmons is the author of the novels Weather Woman, His Mother's Son, and The Stylist. Emmons has taught at various colleges and universities, including the University of Southern California. Since 2002 she has been teaching fiction and screenwriting at the University of Oregon.

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First Draft - Sarah Stone31:57

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Sarah Stone’s new novel, Hungry Ghost Theater, was published by WTAW Press in October 2018. Her first novel is called The True Sources of the Nile. She teaches creative writing for the Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers and Stanford Continuing Studies.

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First Draft - Karen Bender35:18

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Karen Bender is the author of short story collections The New Order and Refund, the novels A Town of Empty Rooms and Like Normal People and is co-editor of the anthology Choice.

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First Draft - Christina Dalcher36:39

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Christina Dalcher is the author of VOX.

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First Draft - Daniel Mason38:05

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Daniel Mason is a physician and author of The Piano Tuner, A Far Country, and The Winter Soldier. He is a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Stanford University Department of Psychiatry, and his research and teaching interests include the subjective experience of mental illness and the influence of literature, history, and culture on the pract ...…

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First Draft - Beth Macy42:24

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Beth Macy is a journalist and author. Her latest book, Dopesick, focuses on one of America's epicenters for the opioid crisis. The book follows distressed communities in Central Appalachia to wealthy suburbs. Her other books include Factory Man and Truevine.

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First Draft - Matthew Thomas28:02

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Matthew Thomas's New York Times-bestselling novel We Are Not Ourselves was shortlisted for the James Tait Black Prize, the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, and the John Gardner Fiction Book Award; longlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award, the Guardian First Book Award, and the Folio Prize; named a Notable Book of the year by ...…

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First Draft - Ben Marcus40:16

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Ben Marcus is the author of five books of fiction: The Age of Wire and String, Notable American Women, The Flame Alphabet, Leaving the Sea, and Notes from the Fog. His stories, essays, and reviews have appeared in Harper’s, The New Yorker, Granta, The Paris Review, Conjunctions, Bomb, the Virginia Quarterly Review, and elsewhere. He is the edit ...…

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First Draft - Bernice McFadden42:56

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Bernice McFadden is the author of nine critically acclaimed novels including Sugar, Loving Donovan, Nowhere Is a Place, The Warmest December, Gathering of Waters (a New York Times Editors’ Choice and one of the 100 Notable Books of 2012), Glorious, and The Book of Harlan (winner of a 2017 American Book Award and the NAACP Image Award for Outsta ...…

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First Draft - Amitava Kumar34:48

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Amitava Kumar writes fiction, non-fiction, and poetry. His latest novel is called Immigrant, Montana. 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 two novels. He lives in Poughkeepsie, in upstate New York, w ...…

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First Draft - Hannah Tinti28:40

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Hannah Tinti is the author of the bestselling novel The Good Thief, which won The Center for Fiction’s first novel prize, and the story collection Animal Crackers, a runner-up for the PEN/Hemingway Award.

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First Draft - Elissa Schappel28:20

9M ago28:20

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Elissa Schappell is an American novelist, short-story writer, editor and essayist. Her latest story collection is called Blueprints for Building Better Girls.

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First Draft - Gary Shteyngart39:14

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Gary Shteyngart is the author of the memoir Little Failure and the novels Super Sad True Love Story, Absurdistan, The Russian Debutante’s Handbook, and Lake Success. His work has been translated into twenty-six languages. Shteyngart lives in New York City and upstate New York.

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First Draft - Francine Prose36:25

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Francine Prose is an American novelist, short story writer, essayist, and critic. Her latest book is an essay collection called What to Read and Why.

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First Draft: Kirstin Valdez Quade28:37

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Kirstin Valdez Quade is an American writer. Her debut short story collection, Night at the Fiestas, received critical praise and won awards. A review in the New York Times labeled her stories "legitimate masterpieces" and called the book a "haunting and beautiful debut story collection."

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First Draft - Joe Mungo Reed32:54

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Joe Mungo Reed was born in London and raised in Gloucestershire, England. He has a master’s in philosophy and politics at the University of Edinburgh and an MFA in creative writing at Syracuse University, where he won the Joyce Carol Oates Award in Fiction. He is the author of the novel, We Begin Our Ascent, and his short stories have appeared ...…

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First Draft - Stephanie Feldman and Nathaniel Popkin39:07

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Stephanie Feldman and Nathaniel Popkin edited Who Will Speak for America?, which includes fiction, essays, photos, cartoons, and poetry from 43 contributing authors. The anthology was compiled just before the 2016 Presidential inaugeration of Donald Trump.

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First Draft - Hannah Pittard49:58

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Hannah Pittard is the author of four novels. Her most recent, Visible Empire,was an Amazon Editors' Pick for Summer Fiction, an IndieNext List Pick, a New York Times "New and Noteworthy" Selection, an O Magazine Book of Summer, and one of Southern Living's Best New Books of Summer. Her previous novels include Listen to me, The Fates will Find T ...…

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First Draft - Chuck Palahniuk33:06

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Chuck Palahniuk is the author of novels, novellas, graphic novels, journalism, essays, and even a coloring book. He is best known for his 1996 novel Fight Club. His new novel is called Adjustment Day.

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First Draft - Lydia Millet33:11

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Lydia Millet is an American novelist and conservationist. She has written twelve works of fiction and four books for young adults. Her third novel, My Happy Life, won the 2003 PEN Center USA Award for Fiction, and she has been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize as well as a Guggenheim fellow, among other honors. Her latest work is a short story ...…

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First Draft - James Wood41:36

11M ago41:36

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James Wood has been a staff writer and book critic at The New Yorker since 2007. His critical essays are collected in The Broken Estate: Essays on Literature and Belief; The Irresponsible Self: On Laughter and the Novel, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award; and The Fun Stuff: And Other Essays. He is also the author o ...…

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First Draft - AM Homes31:19

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A.M. Homes most recent book is Days of Awe, a collection of short stories. She is the author of the novels, This Book Will Save Your Life, which won the 2013 Orange/Women’s Prize for Fiction, Music For Torching, The End of Alice, In a Country of Mothers, and Jack, as well as the short-story collections, Things You Should Know and The Safety of ...…

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First Draft - Howard Norman28:28

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Howard Norman is the author of I Hate to Leave This Beautiful Place.