Best Mitzi Rapkin Podcasts (2025)

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First Draft - Lauren Groff (Returns) 56:46

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Lauren Groff is a three-time National Book Award finalist and The New York Times–bestselling author of the novels The Monsters of Templeton, Arcadia, Fates and Furies, Matrix, and The Vaster Wilds, and the celebrated short story collections Delicate Edible Birds and Florida. She has won The Story Prize, the ABA Indies’ Choice Award, France’s Grand …

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First Draft - Kate Folk 1:03:07

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Kate Folk is the author of the novel Sky Daddy and the short story collection Out There. Her short fiction and essays have appeared in the New Yorker, n+1, the New York Times, Granta, and The Baffler, among other venues. A former Stegner Fellow, she’s also received fellowships and residencies from MacDowell, the Headlands Center for the Arts, and W…

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First Draft - Bob Johnson 1:08:04

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Bob Johnson is an award-winning short story writer and graduate of the lowa Writers’ Workshop. His work has been published by The Common, Philadelphia Stories, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, The Barcelona Review, and elsewhere. His story "The Continental Divide" was named Short Story of the Year in The Hudson Review. He lives in South Bend, Indiana. His collecti…

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First Draft - Lynn Steger Strong 1:08:38

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Lynn Steger Strong is the author of the novels Hold Still, Want, Flight and The Float Test. Her non-fiction has appeared in The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, New York, The Paris Review, Time, and elsewhere. She has taught writing at The Pratt Institute, Fairfield University, Catapult, and Columbia University. She was born and raised in South F…

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First Draft - Vauhini Vara 59:23

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Vauhini Vara has been a reporter and editor for The Atlantic, The New Yorker, and the New York Times Magazine, and is the prize-winning author of The Immortal King Rao and This is Salvaged. She lives in Fort Collins, Colorado. Her new nonfiction book is called Searches. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…

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First Draft - Lisa Hofmann-Kuroda 1:05:06

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Lisa Hofmann-Kuroda is a literary translator. Born in Tokyo, and raised in Texas, she is the co-translator of Ryke Akutagawa’s Kappa and the translator for Yuko Tsushima’s Wildcat Dome. She lives in New York City. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy Mitzi Rapkin

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First Draft - Lynne Tillman 1:12:42

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Lynne Tillman is a novelist, short story writer, and cultural critic. Her novels are Haunted Houses; Motion Sickness; Cast in Doubt; No Lease on Life, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award; American Genius, A Comedy, and Men and Apparitions. Her nonfiction books include The Velvet Years: Warhol’s Factory 1965–1967, with photographs …

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First Draft - Colum McCann 1:00:17

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Colum McCann is the Dublin-born author of thirteen books. He has won numerous international honors including the U.S National Book Award and an Oscar. His work has been published in over 40 languages. He is the co-founder of Narrative 4, a global non-profit that uses storytelling to build community engagement in schools around the world. His new no…

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First Draft - Karen Russell (Returns) 1:03:27

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Karen Russell is the author of six books of fiction, including the New York Times bestsellers Swamplandia! and Vampires in the Lemon Grove. She has received MacArthur and Guggenheim Fellowships and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Born and raised in Miami, Florida, she now lives in Portland, Oregon with her husband, son, and daughter. The Ant…

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First Draft - Mai Der Vang 1:03:35

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Mai Der Vang is the author of Primordial, Yellow Rain, and Afterland. Her honors include th Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize from the Academy of American Poets, an American Book Award, finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry, the First Book Award from the Academy of American Poets, among others. The recipient of a Guggenheim and Lannan Literary Fello…

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First Draft - Erika Krouse 1:00:55

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Erika Krouse writes fiction and nonfiction. Her book Tell me Everything: The Story of a Private Investigationwon the Colorado Book Award for Creative Nonfiction and the 2023 Edgar Award for Best Fact Crime. Erika’s novel, Contenders, was a finalist for the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award. Her previous short story collection Come Up and See Me Somet…

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First Draft - Sarah Gerard (returns again) 1:06:47

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Sarah Gerard is the author of the essay collection Sunshine State, a New York Times Critics’ and NPR Best Book of the Year, a finalist for the Southern Book Prize, and longlisted for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award; the novels True Love and Binary Star, a finalist for the Los Angeles Times First Fiction Prize; a coauthored art book, Recycle; a…

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First Draft - Charlotte Wood (Returns) 1:10:46

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Charlotte Wood is the author of seven novels and three books of non-fiction. Her novel Stone Yard Devotional was shortlisted for the 2024 Booker Prize. Her previous books include The Luminous Solution, a book of essays on the creative process; the international bestseller, The Weekend; and The Natural Way of Things which won a number of prizes incl…

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First Draft - Paul Theroux 1:04:10

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Paul Theroux is the author of many highly acclaimed works of fiction and nonfiction, including The Great Railway Bazaar, The Mosquito Coast, Riding the Iron Rooster, and Mr. Bones: Twenty Stories. In 2015, Paul Theroux was awarded a Royal Medal from the Royal Geographical Society for “the encouragement of geographical discovery through travel writi…

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First Draft - Lidia Yuknavitch (Returns Again) 54:18

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Lidia Yuknavitch is the National Bestselling author of the novels Thrust, The Book of Joan and The Small Backs of Children, winner of the 2016 Oregon Book Award's Ken Kesey Award for Fiction as well as the Reader's Choice Award, the novel Dora: A Headcase, a critical book on war and narrative, Allegories Of Violence, and the short story collection …

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First Draft - Sarah Chihaya 1:07:17

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Sarah Chihaya is a book critic, essayist, and editor. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, The Nation, New York magazine, The Atlantic, and The Yale Review, among other places, and she is the co-author of The Ferrante Letters: An Experiment in Collective Criticism. She has taught at Princeton University, New York U…

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First Draft - Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer 1:14:31

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Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer has been writing and sharing a poem a day since 2006—a practice that especially nourished her after the death of her teenage son in 2021. Her daily poems can be found on her blog, A Hundred Falling Veils, or a curated version (with optional prompts) on her daily audio series, The Poetic Path, available with the Ritual app.…

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Mitzi Rapkin Podcasts

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First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing

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First Draft - Lauren Groff (Returns) 56:46

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First Draft - Kate Folk 1:03:07

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First Draft - Bob Johnson 1:08:04

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First Draft - Lynn Steger Strong 1:08:38

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First Draft - Vauhini Vara 59:23

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First Draft - Lisa Hofmann-Kuroda 1:05:06

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First Draft - Lynne Tillman 1:12:42

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First Draft - Colum McCann 1:00:17

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First Draft - Karen Russell (Returns) 1:03:27

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First Draft - Mai Der Vang 1:03:35

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First Draft - Erika Krouse 1:00:55

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First Draft - Sarah Gerard (returns again) 1:06:47

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First Draft - Charlotte Wood (Returns) 1:10:46

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First Draft - Paul Theroux 1:04:10

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First Draft - Lidia Yuknavitch (Returns Again) 54:18

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First Draft - Sarah Chihaya 1:07:17

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First Draft - Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer 1:14:31