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Mitzi Rapkin - "All In" - Literary Podcast Pioneer Quits Day Job

August 02, 2022 Ron Rothberg and Stu Sheldon Season 7 Episode 4
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Mitzi Rapkin - "All In" - Literary Podcast Pioneer Quits Day Job
Show Notes

Mitzi Rapkin is the founder, host, and producer of the long-running podcast, First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing,  featuring in-depth conversations with the world's most distinguished literary writers of fiction, non-fiction, poetry and essays. One of the best interviewers in the biz, her archive contains more than 380 interviews accumulated over nine years. Mitzi reads 50 BOOKS A YEAR, that's one a week, to produce up to 52 exquisite episodes/year, each meticulously covering the  craft, creativity and  themes of a writer’s work. She consciously cultivates conversations that evolve from the mechanics and quirks of a writer's process to questions on what it means to be human. She quit her cushy government day job two days before this episode recorded and told us, “I’m not sure if I'm diving or just falling, but hey,  here I go!”

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Learn more about Mitzi’s work as a facilitator and life coach - http://www.fulllightcommunications.com/

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