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First Draft Episode #250: Rufi Thorpe Rufi Thorpe, author of The Girls from Corona del Mar and Dear Fang: With Love, talks about her new novel, The Knockout Queen. This episode was sponsored by HIGHLAND 2, a better way to write, and by We Didn’t Ask For This, the newest novel by Adi Alsaid, out from Inkyard Press April 7 (listen to his First Draft interview here). Links and Topics Mentioned In This Episode “Perversity of Spirit,” Rufi’s essay about what it takes to be a writer in Poets&Writers California State Summer School for the Arts Philosopher and novelist Iris Murdoch was an inspiration for Rufi The author, poet, and screenwriter Raymond Obstfeld taught a community college class that really broke fiction open for Rufi Molly Friedrich, literary agent at XXX, who represents Rufi Clueless (movie) The O.C. Zan Romanoff discussing her most recent novel Look on First Draft “If You've Ever Felt Insecure About Your Looks, Author Rufi Thorpe Has Some Important Advice” by Rufi in PopSugar