First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing
Aug 10, 2026 · 1 hr 5 min · 18 segments
Michael Cunningham is a novelist, screenwriter, and educator. His novel *The Hours* received the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1999. He has taught at Columbia University and…
Michael CunninghamGuest
Mitzi RapkinHost
After those hours spent by myself in a room trying to put one sentence on top of another sentence, The last thing I want to do is go for a walk in the woods or on the beach.

I need to bust out into the big, wide world as evidenced by the population in Washington Square Park.

After those hours spent by myself in a room trying to put one sentence on top of another sentence, The last thing I want to do is go for a walk in the woods or on the beach.

I need to bust out into the big, wide world as evidenced by the population in Washington Square Park.
The rest of this transcript — segmented and speaker-labeled, so you land on the exact moment something was said
Search every transcript — by keyword, by phrase, or by meaning, across every show Radar indexes
Trends — what is surging across podcasts, measured against its own baseline
Alerts — when a name you follow appears in a newly indexed episode
No account is needed to search Radar.