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 Finalist for First Fiction. Her second novel, Real Americans, was a New York Times bestseller. She was the managing and executive editor of Lucky Peach magazine and edited a cookbook called All About Eggs. In 2018, she founded The Ruby, a work and event space for women and nonbinary writers and artists in San Francisco’s Mission district. Her new short story collection is called My Dear You. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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

This episode is 63:56 long.

This episode was published on Apr 20, 2026.

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