• First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing

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    “It Can’t Be Political Propaganda, but it is Political.” Curtis Sittenfeld on Crafting a Feminist Voice in Fiction

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   May 22, 2023
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    Abraham Verghese on Medicine’s Innate Connection to Storytelling

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   May 15, 2023
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    Passing Through Porous Boundaries: Mai Nardone on Navigating Thai and American Culture

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   May 8, 2023
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    Ann Lauterbach: On the Value of Effective Language After Trump’s Presidency

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   May 1, 2023
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    Andrew Porter on the Strange Nature of Short Stories Mirroring Each Other

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   April 24, 2023
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    No One’s Suffering is Banal: Cathleen Schine on the Intricacy of Writing Trauma

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   April 17, 2023
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    Maggie Smith on How She Approached Plot in Her Memoir

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   April 10, 2023
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    Clint Smith: “What Does it Mean to Carry Wonder and Despair in Your Body at the Same Time?”

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   April 3, 2023
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    Robert Lopez on Life Before We’re Born and Why Memory is Like a Failed Method Actor

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   March 27, 2023
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    “Gray Area is What Novels Can Do That Twitter Cannot.” Rebecca Makkai on Incorporating #MeToo in Her New Novel

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   March 20, 2023
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    Field Notes for Surviving a Family Cult: Michelle Dowd Revisits Her Childhood in Forager

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   March 13, 2023
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    Pointing in the Direction of Truth: Jai Chakrabarti on Crafting Endings

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   March 6, 2023
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    Susan Griffin on Earning an Ending and How Writing is Akin to Carpentry

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   February 27, 2023
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    Matthew Salesses: Setting Restrictions Leads You to Narrative Possibilities

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   February 21, 2023
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    Kathryn Ma on Portraying Asian-Americans Positively and the “Messiness That is Life in Any Community”

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   February 13, 2023
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    Katherine Standefer on the Careful Conversations Required of Writing Memoir

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   February 7, 2023
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    Peter Turchi on Writerly Digression and Charming Sentences

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   January 30, 2023
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    Blair Braverman: What Does Survival Mean?

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   January 23, 2023
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    Stephanie Feldman: Is the Way We Celebrate Fueled by Fear?

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   January 17, 2023
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    “The Best Story I’ve Ever Written is the One I’m Going to Write Next.” Jack Driscoll on His Stylistic Expansion

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   January 9, 2023
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    Chris Belcher on Blurring the Lines Between Sex Work and Academia

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   January 4, 2023
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    Peter Orner on Looking for “Solace in Remembering” and His Pursuit of Chronology

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   January 3, 2023
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    Namwali Serpell on the “Uncanny Rhythm” of Poetry and Grief

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   December 19, 2022
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    Elizabeth Strout: How Her Imagination as a Child Has Steered Her Writing Career

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   December 12, 2022
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    “She Could Already Feel Herself as Being Part of the Next World.” Morowa Yejidé on the Interplay Between Life and Death

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   December 5, 2022
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