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First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing

Mitzi Rapkin

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 voic...

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Listen to First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing, a Arts podcast by Mitzi Rapkin. Stream 581 episodes in English, follow new audio stories, and play episodes online on Radio and Podcast.

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First Draft - Ruth Ozeki

Ruth Ozeki is a novelist, filmmaker, and Zen Buddhist priest. Her new short story collection is called The Typing Lady and Other Fictions. H...

65:08Jun 15, 2026

First Draft - Emma Straub

Emma Straub is the New York Times-bestselling author of seven books for adults: the novels American Fantasy, This Time Tomorrow, All Adults...

64:07Jun 8, 2026

First Draft - Lily King (Returns)

Lily King is the award-winning author of six novels. Her most recent novel is Heart the Lover. She has also published a collection of short...

55:40Jun 1, 2026

First Draft - Ramona Ausubel

Ramona Ausubel is a graduate of the MFA program at the University of California, Irvine. She is the author of the novel No One Is Here Excep...

64:51May 25, 2026

First Draft - Hafeez Lakhani

Hafeez Lakhani was born in Hyderabad, India and raised in suburban South Florida. His novel is called Abundance. His fiction and essays have...

64:48May 18, 2026

First Draft - Tom Perrotta

Tom Perrotta is the bestselling author of eleven works of fiction, including Election and Little Children, both of which were made into Osca...

65:40May 11, 2026

First Draft - Jim Newton

Jim Newton is a journalist, teacher, and author of Justice for All, Eisenhower, Worthy Fights, and Man of Tomorrow. He was at the Los Angele...

67:02May 4, 2026

First Draft - Allegra Goodman

Allegra Goodman is the author of Isola, Sam, Intuition, The Cookbook Collector, Paradise Park, and Kaaterskill Falls (a National Book Award...

44:20Apr 27, 2026

First Draft - Rachel Khong

Rachel Khong’s first novel Goodbye, Vitamin, won the 2017 California Book Award for First Fiction, and was a Los Angeles Times Book Prize Fi...

63:56Apr 20, 2026

First Draft - Kate Schatz

Kate Schatz is a feminist author, educator, and public speaker. She's the New York Times-bestselling author of the "Rad Women" book series;...

64:00Apr 13, 2026

First Draft - Camille Dungy

Camille T. Dungy is the author of America, A Love Story. She has also written the memoir Soil: The Story of a Black Mother’s Garden, the ess...

59:39Apr 6, 2026

First Draft - Naeem Murr

Naeem Murr, a dual US and UK citizen, is the author of four novels: The Boy, a New York Times Notable Book; The Genius of the Sea; and The P...

64:01Mar 30, 2026

First Draft - Andrea Mara

Andrea Mara is a number one international bestselling Irish author. Several of her books have been shortlisted for Irish Crime Novel of the...

55:00Mar 23, 2026

First Draft - Philip Schultz

Philip Schultz is the author of nine poetry collections, including the Pulitzer Prize–winning Failure. Some of his other works include Like...

62:42Mar 16, 2026

First Draft - Tayari Jones

Tayari Jones is the author of four novels including An American Marriage, which was an Oprah’s Book Club Selection and also appeared on Bara...

60:03Mar 9, 2026

First Draft - Bret Anthony Johnston

Bret Anthony Johnston is the author of the award-winning short story collection Corpus Christi, the novels We Burn Daylight and Remember Me...

68:55Mar 2, 2026