The Write Question
Literature
The Write Question is a weekly literary program hosted by Lauren Korn that features authors from the American West—and beyond—including James Lee Burke, Kate Lebo, Anne Helen Petersen, Robert Wrigley, Jess Walter, Stephen Graham Jones, Hoa Nguyen, Maggie Shipstead, Elissa Washuta, and others.
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United States
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The Write Question is a weekly literary program hosted by Lauren Korn that features authors from the American West—and beyond—including James Lee Burke, Kate Lebo, Anne Helen Petersen, Robert Wrigley, Jess Walter, Stephen Graham Jones, Hoa Nguyen, Maggie Shipstead, Elissa Washuta, and others.
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@mtpublicradio
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English
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http://mtpr.org/
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Episodes
TWQ Mini: Returning to ‘Class’ by Stephanie Land, in anticipation of event with Chapter One Bookstore
1/26/2025
In advance of a February 2, 2025, event at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Hamilton, Montana—hosted by Chapter One Bookstore—Lauren Korn returns to her conversation with memoirist Stephanie Land, author of ‘Class: A Memoir of Motherhood, Hunger, and Higher Education’ (Atria/One Signal Publishers).
Duration:00:15:36
“There’s no end, really, or beginning to anything”: Callan Wink’s ‘Beartooth’ is a novel of grief, family, and the wild
1/23/2025
This week on ‘The Write Question,’ host Lauren Korn speaks with Callan Wink, author of ‘Beartooth’ (Spiegel & Grau).
Duration:00:29:00
‘In Old Sky’: New Mexico Poet Laureate Lauren Camp is making a case for darkness
1/16/2025
This week on ‘The Write Question’ host Lauren Korn speaks with Lauren Camp, current Poet Laureate of New Mexico and author of ‘In Old Sky: Poems Inspired by the Grand Canyon’ (Grand Canyon Observatory).
Duration:00:29:00
“The last one standing”: Wildlife biologist Diane K. Boyd is ‘A Woman Among Wolves’ (Part Two)
1/9/2025
This week on ‘The Write Question,’ the second and final part of a two-part conversation with world-renowned wildlife biologist Diane K. Boyd, author of ‘A Woman Among Wolves: My Journey Through Forty Years of Wolf Recovery’ (Greystone Books).
Duration:00:29:00
Lone wolf: Wildlife biologist Diane K. Boyd is ‘A Woman Among Wolves’ (Part One)
1/2/2025
This week on ‘The Write Question,’ the first part of a two-part conversation with world-renowned wildlife biologist Diane K. Boyd, author of ‘A Woman Among Wolves: My Journey Through Forty Years of Wolf Recovery’ (Greystone Books).
Duration:00:29:00
“Woman versus bear”: Julia Phillips discusses womanhood, trust, and miraculous animals in her sophomore novel, ‘Bear’
12/26/2024
This week on ‘The Write Question’ host Lauren Korn is in conversation with novelist Julia Phillips, author of ‘Bear’ (Hogarth Press), her second novel centering sisterhood—this time on an island off the coast of Washington.
Duration:00:29:00
“My imagination is rooted in place; it doesn’t exist in the ether”: Joe Wilkins on writing ‘The Entire Sky’
12/12/2024
This week on ‘The Write Question,’ host Lauren Korn speaks with Oregon-based writer Joe Wilkins, author of ‘The Entire Sky’ (Little, Brown & Company).
Duration:00:29:00
‘Cloud Missives’: Manifesting and excavating the self with Haudenosaunee poet Kenzie Allen
12/5/2024
This week on ‘The Write Question,’ Haudenosaunee poet Kenzie Allen discusses her collection ‘Cloud Missives’ (Tin House Books).
Duration:00:29:00
TWQ Mini: Meghan Keane is a ‘Party of One,’ her own best life partner
12/1/2024
Host Lauren Korn speaks with ‘Life Kit’ creator Meghan Keane, author of ‘Party of One: Be Your Own Best Life Partner’ (Chronicle Books).
Duration:00:12:16
TWQ Mini: NPR’s Andrew Limbong discusses 2024’s reading trends and ‘Books We Love’
11/30/2024
Host Lauren Korn speaks with Andrew Limbong about NPR’s 2024 interactive book list of staff favorites, “Books We Love.”
Duration:00:11:12
Encore: On ancestors and exes: Plains Cree poet Emily Riddle explores kinship, the colonial project of Canada, and climate change in ‘The Big Melt’
11/21/2024
This week on ‘The Write Question,’ an encore broadcast of a conversation with poet Emily Riddle, author of ‘The Big Melt’ (Nightwood Editions), a debut collection rooted in Nehiyaw (Cree) thought and urban millennial life events.
Duration:00:29:00
Chris La Tray on ‘Becoming Little Shell’: “If pride was the air I was breathing, grief was what I was exhaling” (Part Two)
11/14/2024
This week on ‘The Write Question,’ the second part of a two-part conversation with Chris La Tray, Métis storyteller and Montana Poet Laureate (2023-2025), author of ‘Becoming Little Shell: A Landless Indian’s Journey Home’ (Milkweed Editions).
Duration:00:29:00
Chris La Tray on ‘Becoming Little Shell’: “What kind of society do we live in where any Indigenous people can be considered ‘landless’ in the first place?” (Part One)
11/7/2024
This week on ‘The Write Question,’ in the first part of a two-part conversation, Chris La Tray, Métis storyteller and Montana Poet Laureate (2023-2025), discusses his memoir, ‘Becoming Little Shell: A Landless Indian’s Journey Home’ (Milkweed Editions).
Duration:00:29:00
‘Scattered Snows, to the North’: Retracing steps and self-correcting with Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Carl Phillips
11/4/2024
For this web exclusive episode of ‘The Write Question,’ host Lauren Korn speaks with poet Carl Phillips, author of ‘Scattered Snows, to the North,’ and the Pulitzer Prize-winning ‘Then the War and Selected Poems, 2007-2020’ (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), in advance of his appearance at the Missoula Art Museum on November 6, 2024.
Duration:00:29:19
“I wanted to learn her, as if Carolyn were some kind of language”: Sarah Gerard on her friend, her murder, and an obsession with the unthinkable
10/31/2024
This week on ‘The Write Question,’ host Lauren Korn speaks with Sarah Gerard about ‘Carrie Carolyn Coco: My Friend, Her Murder, and an Obsession with the Unthinkable’ (Zando Projects).
Duration:00:29:00
Live! Pledge week episode: Lauren Korn, Justin Angle, and Sarah Aronson discuss climate anxiety, environmental ethics, and care
10/24/2024
This week on ‘The Write Question,’ host Lauren Korn joins ‘A New Angle’ host Justin Angle and ‘Grounding’ host Sarah Aronson in Studio A for a live pledge week episode that centers climate: anxiety, ethics, and care.
Duration:01:02:08
Ben Goldfarb’s interspecies imagination in ‘Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet’
10/17/2024
This week on ‘The Write Question,’ conservation journalist Ben Goldfarb discusses ‘Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet’ (W. W. Norton & Company).
Duration:00:29:00
“What if the world is always ending?”: Celebrating ten years of ‘Station Eleven’ with Emily St. John Mandel
10/10/2024
This week on ‘The Write Question,’ host Lauren Korn speaks with novelist Emily St. John Mandel about ‘Station Eleven’ (Vintage Books; Penguin Random House), now in its tenth year of publication.
Duration:00:29:00
Jory Mickelson interrogates and writes into Western histories and landscapes in ‘All This Divide’
10/3/2024
This week on ‘The Write Question,’ host Lauren Korn speaks with poet Jory Mickelson about ‘All This Divide’ (Spuyten Duyvil Publishing).
Duration:00:29:00
“It’s now or it might-not-be-ever”: Hanif Abdurraqib’s urgent meditations on time, success, and witness in ‘There’s Always This Year’
9/26/2024
In advance of his appearances in Montana, poet, essayist, and cultural critic Hanif Abdurraqib speaks with host Lauren Korn about ‘There’s Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension’ (Penguin Random House).
Duration:00:29:00