![]() Can you talk about the structure and what you were thinking about when you started writing this? I mean, you knew you wanted to go write a book there, but did you know the book that you wanted to write? ![]() They could be read as individual short stories, but they all link back to this disappearance and how it has impacted the people’s lives in the stories and how some of these people are loosely connected. ![]() The whole rest of the book is told with the structure of each month of the year that they’re disappeared, and it really kind of ripples outward to the community. ![]() Alyona and Sophia are sisters, and their mother is off at work, and they’re by a lake and they end up disappearing. Mitzi Rapkin: So your story is actually about two young girls who leave in a different way: they disappear. This week on First Draft, Julia Phillips joins Mitzi to discuss her latest novel, Disappearing Earth, out now from Knopf. Hosted by Mitzi Rapkin, First Draft celebrates 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. ![]() First Draft: A Dialogue of Writing is a weekly show featuring in-depth interviews with fiction, nonfiction, essay writers, and poets, highlighting the voices of writers as they discuss their work, their craft, and the literary arts. ![]()
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