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We’ve been told stress will kill us. That we need to yoga-breathe it away, book a retreat, or stuff it down with a pint of Ben & Jerry’s (using your car key as a spoon… iykyk). But what if stress isn’t the villain? What if it’s actually the fuel for our best work? This week, we’re joined by Dr. Rebecca Heiss — a stress physiologist, researcher, keynote speaker, and author of Springboard: Transform Stress to Work for You . She’s also the creator of the Fearless Stress Formula and has been recognized by the National Science Foundation for her groundbreaking research. Her mission? To help us stop fearing fear, stop fighting stress, and instead transform both into fuel for growth, performance, and purpose. Rebecca brings her science background together with real talk and humor, making the hard stuff (like stress) not only make sense but feel doable. She’s passionate about helping women shift out of survival mode and into a place of clarity, confidence, and community. Together, we dive into why stress isn’t something to eliminate but energy we can reframe, channel, and actually use to show up stronger. We explore: Why your “effortless, overwhelmed” game isn’t working The three steps to stop fighting stress and start using it How to “invite the tiger to tea” (yes, really) Why service and community are the real antidote to overwhelm The competitive advantage women have when it comes to stress Because friend, stress isn’t proof you’re broken. It’s proof you care. And when you learn to use it, it becomes your edge. Connect with Rebecca: Website: www.rebeccaheiss.com Book: https://a.co/d/6ReB5Nr IG: https://www.instagram.com/drrebeccaheiss/ Related Podcast Episodes The Stress Paradox: Why We Need Stress (and How to Make It Work for Us) with Dr. Sharon Horesh Bergquist | 294 How to Become Panic Proof with Dr. Nicole Cain | 269 Stress Less and Fear(Less) with Rebecca Heiss | 181 Share the Love: If you found this episode insightful, please share it with a friend, tag us on social media, and leave a review on your favorite podcast platform! 🔗 Subscribe & Review: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Amazon Music Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…

First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing

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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 voices of writers as they discuss their work, their craft, and the literary arts. This weekly show hosted by Mitzi Rapkin is a celebration of creative writing and the individuals who are dedicated to bringing their carefully chosen words to print as well as the impact writers have on the world we live in.

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First Draft - Caleb Gayle 1:08:15

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Caleb Gayle is an award-winning journalist who writes about race and identity and is a contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine . His writing has been recognized by the Matthew Power Literary Reporting Award, the PEN America Writing for Justice Fellowship, the Center for Fiction Emerging Writers Fellowship, the New America Fellowship, and a fellowship at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, among others. In addition to writing, Gayle serves as an Associate Professor at Northeastern University. His nonfiction book is called Black Moses . Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…

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First Draft - Betsy Lerner 1:01:35

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Betsy Lerner is the author of the recently released novel, Shred Sisters . She is also the author The Bridge Ladies , The Forest for the Trees and Food and Loathing . With Temple Grandin, she is the co-author of the New York Times bestseller Visual Thinking: The Hidden Gifts of People Who Think in Pictures, Patterns and Abstractions . She received an MFA from Columbia University in Poetry where she was selected as one of PEN’s Emerging Writers. She also received the Tony Godwin Publishing Prize for Editors. After working as an editor for 15 years, she became an agent and is currently a partner with Dunow, Carlson and Lerner Literary Agency. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…

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First Draft - 12th Anniversary Best of - Tracy K. Smith 1:13:49

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Tracy K. Smith is the author of five poetry collections, including Such Color: New and Selected Poems; Wade in the Water, winner of the 2019 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award in Poetry, and shortlisted for the 2018 T. S. Eliot Prize. Her debut collection, The Body’s Question, won the Cave Canem Poetry Prize in 2002. Her second book, Duende, won the 2006 James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets. Her collection Life on Mars won the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. She also edited the anthology American Journal: Fifty Poems for Our Time. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…

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First Draft - Rachel Cockerell 1:02:00

il y a environ 19 jours1:02:00

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Rachel Cockerell was born and raised in London, the sixth of seven children. Melting Point is her first nonfiction book. Her research has taken her to Texas, Ohio, New York, Tel Aviv, and Jerusalem. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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First Draft - Joy Harjo 1:00:09

il y a environ 26 jours1:00:09

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Joy Harjo was the 23rd Poet Laureate of the United States and is a member of the Mvskoke Nation. She is the author of more than ten books of poetry including Weaving Sundown in a Scarlet Light: Fifty Poems for Fifty Years and the highly acclaimed An American Sunrise , which was a 2020 Oklahoma Book Award Winner. Her new book is Washing My Mother’s Body: A Ceremony for Grief. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…

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First Draft - Princess Joy L. Perry 1:07:19

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Princess Joy L. Perry is the recipient of a Virginia Commission for the Arts Fellowship and a winner of the Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Award. Her short stories have appeared in All About Skin , African American Review , and Kweli Journal . She lives in Norfolk, Virginia. Her new novel is This Here is Love . Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…

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First Draft - Ed Park 1:00:01

il y a 6 weeks1:00:01

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Ed Park is the author of the novels Same Bed Different Dreams , a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and Personal Days , a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award. His fiction, essays, and reviews have appeared in The New Yorker , The New York Review of Books , Harper’s , The Atlantic , Bookforum , McSweeney’s , and elsewhere. He is a founding editor of The Believer and the former literary editor of The Village Voice and has worked in newspapers and book publishing. His debut story collection is An Oral History of Atlantis . Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…

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First Draft - Torrey Peters 57:45

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Torrey Peters is the author of the novel Detransition, Baby, which won the 2021 PEN/Hemingway award for debut fiction and was named a Best Book of the Century by the New York Times. Her second book of short stories is called Stag Dance . Torrey is an amateur sauna builder, rides a pink motorcycle, and splits her time between Brooklyn and Santa Marta, Colombia. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…

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First Draft - 12th Anniversary Best of - Sue Monk Kidd 1:04:32

il y a 7 weeks1:04:32

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Sue Monk Kidd writes fiction and non-fiction. Her novels include The Secret Life of Bees, The Mermaid Chair, The Invention of Wings, and The Book of Longings. Some of her non-fiction titles include The Dance of the Dissident Daughter and When the Heart Waits. In this episode we discuss her new novel The Book of Longings Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…

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First Draft - Kristin Koval 1:06:21

il y a 8 weeks1:06:21

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Kristin Koval is a former lawyer who always wanted to be a writer but initially wandered down other paths. She attended Phillips Exeter Academy, Georgetown University and Columbia Law School. She lives in Boulder, Colorado and Park City, Utah with her husband, two sons and two Great Danes. Her novel is called Penitence . Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…

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First Draft - Robert Macfarlane 55:45

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Robert Macfarlane is a British writer internationally known for his writing on nature, people, and place. His best-selling books include Underland, Landmarks, The Old Ways, The Wild Places and Mountains of the Mind. They have been translated into more than 30 languages and won many prizes around the world and have been adapted for film, music, theatre, radio, and dance. He has also written operas, plays and films including river and mountain. In 2017 the American Academy of Arts and Letters awarded him the EM Forester Prize for literature. Macfarlane lives in Cambridge England where he is a fellow at Emmanual College, Cambridge. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…

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First Draft - Andrew Porter (returns) 1:03:54

il y a 10 weeks1:03:54

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Andrew Porter is the author of four books, including the short story collection The Theory of Light and Matter , which won the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction, the novel In Between Days, which was a Barnes & Noble “Discover Great New Writers” selection, an IndieBound “Indie Next” selection, and the San Antonio Express News ’s “Fictional Work of the Year,” the short story collection The Disappeared , which was longlisted for The Story Prize and the Joyce Carol Oates Prize, and the novel The Imagined Life . Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…

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First Draft - André Alexis 1:05:13

il y a 11 weeks1:05:13

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André Alexis was born in Trinidad and grew up in Canada. His novel, Fifteen Dogs , won the 2015 Scotiabank Giller Prize and the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize. His internationally acclaimed debut, Childhood , won the Books in Canada First Novel Award, the Trillium Book Award, and was shortlisted for the Giller Prize and the Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize. In 2017, he was awarded the Windham-Campbell Literature Prize for fiction. His new collection is Other Worlds. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…

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First Draft - 12th Anniversary Best of - Salar Abdoh 1:06:21

il y a 11 weeks1:06:21

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Salar Abdoh is the author of Out of Mesopotamia, Tehran at Twilight, Opium, and The Poet Game, and editor and translator of the celebrated crime collection, Tehran Noir. He divides his time between New York City and Tehran, Iran. He is a professor at the City University of New York’s City College campus in Harlem, where he teaches in the English Department’s MFA program and also directs undergraduate creative writing. His new novel is called A Nearby Country Called Love. We talked about the influences on his creativity, masculinity, life in Iran, gender and gayness, writing stories close to home, and finding love and belonging. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…

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First Draft - Lori Ostlund 1:07:10

il y a 12 weeks1:07:10

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Lori Ostlund is the author of After the Parade, which was a Barnes & Noble Discover pick and a finalist for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize and the Ferro-Grumley Award. Her story collection, The Bigness of the World , won the 2008 Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction, the California Book Award for First Fiction, and the Edmund White Debut Fiction Award, and was a Lambda Finalist and a New York Times Editors’ Choice. Her third book is called Are You Happy? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…

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First Draft - Ethan Rutherford (Returns Again) 1:02:14

il y a 13 weeks1:02:14

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Ethan Rutherford’s new novel is The North Sun or the Voyage of the Whaleship Esther . He is the author of two story collections— Farthest South and The Peripatetic Coffin and Other Stories —and for these works has been named a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction, a finalist for the John Leonard Prize and CLMP’s Firecracker Award, received honorable mention for the PEN/Hemingway Award, was a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers selection, and was the winner of a Minnesota Book Award. He received his MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Minnesota and now teaches Creative Writing at Trinity College. We talked about his novel North Sun, whaling, mythology, Peter and the Wolf, musicality in writing, Alaska, and going back to ideas he thought he was finished with. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…

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First Draft - Shelley Read 1:06:46

il y a 14 weeks1:06:46

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Shelley Read’s debut novel, Go as a River , is an international bestseller that has been translated into thirty-four languages and is in development for film with the Mazur Kaplan Company. Winner of the High Plains Book Award for Fiction, the Reading the West Book Award for Debut Fiction, and le Prix de l’Union Interalliée, Go as a River is also a Sunday Times bestseller, Goodreads Choice Award finalist, Amazon Editors’ Pick for Best Debut Fiction, Indie Next Pick, and a Colorado Public Radio Books We Love selection, among other national and international accolades. Go As A River has been highlighted in the New York Times Book Review, Sunday Times , Scientific American , Real Simple , Kirkus Reviews (starred review), Denver Post , London Independent , Alta Magazine, 5280, Zibby Mag, and many more publications around the world. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…

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First Draft: Madeleine Thien 1:08:21

il y a 15 weeks1:08:21

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Madeleine Thien is the author of four books, including Do Not Say We Have Nothing , which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker , Granta , The New York Review of Books , and elsewhere. She lives in Montreal. Her new novel is The Book of Records. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…

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First Draft - Lauren Groff (Returns) 54:46

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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 Prix de l’Héroïne, and the Joyce Carol Oates Prize, and has been a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her work regularly appears in The New Yorker , The Atlantic , and elsewhere. Her work has been translated into thirty-six languages. She lives in Gainesville, Florida. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…

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First Draft - Kate Folk 1:01:07

il y a 17 weeks1:01:07

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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 Willapa Bay AiR. She lives in San Francisco. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…

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First Draft - Bob Johnson 1:06:04

il y a 18 weeks1:06:04

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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 collection is called The Continental Divide . Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…

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First Draft - Lynn Steger Strong 1:06:38

il y a 19 weeks1:06:38

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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 Florida. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…

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First Draft - Vauhini Vara 57:23

il y a 20 weeks57:23

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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 1:03:06

il y a 21 weeks1:03:06

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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/adchoices

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First Draft - Lynne Tillman 1:10:42

il y a 22 weeks1:10:42

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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 by Stephen Shore; Bookstore: The Life and Times of Jeannette Watson and Books & Co .; and What Would Lynne Tillman Do? , a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism. Her new collection is Thrilled to Death . Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…

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First Draft - Colum McCann 58:17

il y a 23 weeks58:17

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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 novel is called Twist. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…

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First Draft - Karen Russell (Returns) 1:01:27

il y a 24 weeks1:01:27

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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 Antidote is her second novel. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…

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First Draft - Mai Der Vang 1:01:35

il y a 25 weeks1:01:35

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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 Fellowship, she teaches in the MFA Program in Creative Writing at Fresno State. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…

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First Draft - Erika Krouse 58:55

il y a 26 weeks58:55

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Erika Krouse writes fiction and nonfiction. Her book T ell me Everything: The Story of a Private Investigation won 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 Sometime , won the Paterson Fiction Award, was a New York Times Notable Book of the year, and is translated into six languages. Her new short story collection is Save Me, Stranger. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…

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First Draft - Sarah Gerard (returns again) 1:04:47

il y a 27 weeks1:04:47

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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 ; and the chapbook The Butter House . Her new book of investigative journalism is called Carrie Carolyn Coco: My Friend, Her Murder, and an Obsession with the Unthinkable. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…

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First Draft - Charlotte Wood (Returns) 1:08:46

il y a 28 weeks1:08:46

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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 including The Stella Prize and the Prime Minister’s Literary Award. Her features and essays have appeared in The New York Times, The Guardian, Literary Hub, The Sydney Morning Herald and The Saturday Paper among other publications. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…

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First Draft - Paul Theroux 1:02:10

il y a 29 weeks1:02:10

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Paul Theroux is the author of many highly acclaimed works of fiction and nonfiction, including The Great Railway Bazaa r, 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 writing.” His new short story collection is The Vanishing Point . Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…

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First Draft - Lidia Yuknavitch (Returns Again) 52:18

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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 Verge . Her widely acclaimed memoir The Chronology of Water was a finalist for a PEN Center USA award for creative nonfiction and winner of a PNBA Award and the Oregon Book Award Reader's Choice. Her new nonfiction book is Reading the Waves . Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…

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First Draft - Sarah Chihaya 1:05:17

il y a 31 weeks1:05:17

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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 University, and UC Berkeley. She is currently a contributing editor at Los Angeles Review of Books and lives in Brooklyn. Her new book is Bibliophobia. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…

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First Draft - Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer 1:12:31

il y a 32 weeks1:12:31

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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. Her poetry collection Hush won the Halcyon Prize. Naked for Tea was a finalist for the Able Muse Book Award. Her most recent collections are All the Honey and The Unfolding . In January 2024, she became the first poet laureate for Evermore, helping others through this platform to explore grief, bereavement, wonder, and love through the voice of poetry. She is the co-hosts of a podcast on creative process called Emerging Form. This episode was recorded live at TACAW in Basalt, Colorado. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…

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First Draft - Alan Shapiro 1:09:09

il y a 33 weeks1:09:09

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Alan Shapiro was born in Boston, Massachusetts and graduated from Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts. Shapiro has published fourteen poetry collections, including A Dress Rehearsal for the Truth ; By and By ; Life Pig ; Reel to Reel ; Night of the Republic , a finalist for the 2013 Griffin Poetry Prize and the National Book Award; and Old War , winner of the Ambassador Book Award. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…

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First Draft - David Wrobelwski 1:00:54

il y a 34 weeks1:00:54

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David Wroblewski is the author, most recently, of the novel Familiaris , his followup to the internationally bestselling The Story Of Edgar Sawtelle , an Oprah Book Club pick, Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers selection, winner of the Colorado Book Award, Indie Choice Best Author Discovery award, and Midwest Bookseller Association's Choice award, in addition to being selected as one of the best books of the year by numerous magazines and newspapers. This was recorded live at TACAW in Basalt, Colorado. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…

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Paolo Bacigalupi 1:01:30

il y a 35 weeks1:01:30

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Paolo Bacigalupi is an internationally bestselling author of speculative fiction. He has won the Hugo, Nebula, World Fantasy, John W. Campbell and Locus Awards, as well as being a finalist for the National Book Award and a winner of the Michael L. Printz Award for Excellence in Young Adult Literature. Paolo’s work often focuses on questions of sustainability and the environment, most notably the impacts of climate change. He has written novels for adults, young adults, and children, and his new book is Navola. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…

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First Draft - Claire Messud and Amitava Kumar on Literary Friendship 1:00:47

il y a 36 weeks1:00:47

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This episode on literary friendship with Claire Messud and Amitava Kumar was recorded live at Lighthouse Writers Workshop in Denver, Colorado at the June 2024 Lit Fest. Learn more about Lighthouse . Claire Messud is the author of six works of fiction. She is a recipient of a Guggenheim and Radcliffe Fellowships and the Strauss Living Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Her essay collection is called Kant’s Little Prussian Head and Other Reasons Why I Write . Her recent novel is called This Strange Eventful History. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with her family. Amitava Kumar is a writer and journalist. He was born in Ara, and grew up in the nearby town of Patna, famous for its corruption, crushing poverty and delicious mangoes. Kumar is the author of several books of non-fiction and four novels. His new novel is My Beloved Life. Kumar lives in Poughkeepsie, in upstate New York, where he is the Helen D. Lockwood Professor of English at Vassar College. He serves on the board of the Corporation of Yaddo. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…

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First Draft - Boyce Upholt 57:40

il y a 37 weeks57:40

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Boyce Upholt is a journalist and essayist whose writing has appeared in the Atlantic , National Geographic , the Oxford American , and Virginia Quarterly Review , among other publications. He is the winner of a James Beard Award for investigative journalism, and he lives in New Orleans, Louisiana. His book is called The Great River: The Making & Unmaking of the Mississippi. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…

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Best of 2024 - Kevin Barry 1:07:52

il y a 37 weeks1:07:52

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Kevin Barry is the author of the novels Night Boat to Tangier , which was longlisted for the Booker Prize, Beatlebone , and City of Bohane as well as three story collections including Dark Lies the Island . His stories and essays have appeared in the New Yorker, Granta and elsewhere. He also works as a playwright and screenwriter lives in County Sligo, Ireland. His new novel is The Heart in Winter . We talked about the Irish in Butte, Montana, watching and writing westerns, Wuthering Heights, voice and character, Kevin’s writing process, comedy, and Annie Proulx. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…

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First Draft - Amina Gautier (Returns) 1:18:13

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Amina Gautier is the author of four short story collections: At-Risk, Now We Will Be Happy, The Loss of All Lost Things , and The Best that You Can Do . Gautier is the recipient of the Blackwell Prize, the Chicago Public Library Foundation’s 21st Century Award, the International Latino Book Award, the Flannery O’Connor Award, and the Phillis Wheatley Book Award in Fiction. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…

First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing

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Best of 2024 - Kiley Reid 1:04:58

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Kiley Reid is the author of Come and Get It and Such A Fun Age, which was a New York Times Best Seller and longlisted for the 2020 Booker Price. Her writing has been featured in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Playboy, The Guardian, and others. Reid is currently an assistant professor at the University of Michigan. We talked about religion and fiction, philosophy, acting, Buddhism, materialism, college age women, grace in fiction, what creative writing can and can’t do, not judging your fictional characters, and the background work she does that doesn’t make it into a novel. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…

First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing

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First Draft - Simon Rich 59:47

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Simon Rich has written for “Saturday Night Live,” Pixar and “The Simpsons.” He is the creator and showrunner of “Man Seeking Woman” (FXX) and “Miracle Workers” which he based on his books. His other collections include Spoiled Brats and Ant Farm . He is a frequent contributor to The New Yorker . His new story collection is Glory Days. We talked about Ray Bradbury, the similarities between humor and science fiction, characters who are trying to reinvent themselves, humanizing characters who seem like they have no good qualities, the underdogs, writing for TV and sketch comedy versus fiction books, and family dynamics. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…

First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing

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Best of 2024 - Julia Alvarez 1:11:07

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