First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing
Arts:Books
Julia Alvarez has written novels including How the García Girls Lost Their Accents, In the Time of the Butterflies, ¡Yo!, In the Name of Salomé, Saving the World, Afterlife, collections of poems including Homecoming, The Other Side/ El Otro Lado, The Woman I Kept to Myself, nonfiction works including Something to Declare, Once Upon A Quinceañera, and A Wedding in Haiti, and numerous books for young readers including the Tía Lola Stories series, Before We Were Free, finding miracles, Return to Sender and Where Do They Go? Her new novel is The Cemetery of Untold Stories. In 2013, she received the National Medal of Arts from President Obama.
We talked about Julia's childhood, her parents reaction to her fiction, telling stories, aging, creativity, the stories we can pass on, and writing craft.
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
First Draft - Michelle Bowdler
First Draft - Sejal Shah
First Draft - Anne Enright
First Draft - TaraShea Nesbit
First Draft - Marie Mutsuki Mockett
First Draft - Mary South
First Draft - Lori Gottlieb
First Draft - Vanessa Hua
First Draft - Jane Hirshfield
First Draft - Sue Monk Kidd
First Draft - Emily Nemens
First Draft - Ann Napolitano
First Draft - Anna Solomon
First Draft - Carolyn Forché
First Draft - Ander Monson
First Draft - Sahar Mustafah
First Draft - Julian Jarboe
First Draft - Katrin Schumann
First Draft - Deb Olin Unferth
First Draft - P. Carl
Create your
podcast in
minutes
It is Free
Lit Society: Books and Drama
Ex Libris
Write The Book: Conversations on Craft
A Tale of Two Cities
Anne of Green Gables
Fresh Air
Myths and Legends