First Draft - Daniyal Mueenuddin

Daniyal Mueenuddin was brought up in Lahore, Pakistan, and Elroy, Wisconsin. A graduate of Dartmouth College and Yale Law School, his stories have appeared in The New Yorker, Granta, Zoetrope, and The Best American Short Stories 2008, selected by Salman Rushdie. His collection In Other Rooms, Other Wonders was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. For a number of years he practiced law in New York. He now divides his time between Oslo, Norway, and his farm in Pakistan’s South Punjab. His new novel is called This is Where the Serpent Lives. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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First Draft - Daniyal Mueenuddin is an episode from First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing by Mitzi Rapkin.

This episode is 53:16 long.

This episode was published on Jan 26, 2026.

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