The Write Question
By Lauren Korn
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Episodes: 52
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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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‘The Negroes Send Their Love’: Sean Hill’s far-ranging homes, Black futures
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Jun 26, 2026 |
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The swivel and startle of language: Long-time “horse girl” Emily Haworth-Booth discusses her debut novel, ‘Mare’
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Jun 19, 2026 |
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‘Make Believe’: Mac Barnett writes first book for adults, widens the aperture of what children’s books can be
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Jun 12, 2026 |
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“Art witch and pragmatist” Courtney Maum publishes anti-capitalist romp, ‘Alan Opts Out’
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Jun 05, 2026 |
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‘A Truce That Is Not Peace’: Miriam Toews on language, silence, and pop-up wind museums
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May 29, 2026 |
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A “Climate Solutions Week” encore: Mark Easter serves up ‘The Blue Plate’
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May 22, 2026 |
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Don’t fence me in: Hillary Rosner explores global wildlife connectivity and movement in ‘Roam’
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May 15, 2026 |
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Preeti Vangani returns to the body in her sophomore collection, ‘Fifty Mothers’
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May 08, 2026 |
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Uncanny valley: Kim Fu’s venue of post-COVID horror, ‘The Valley of Vengeful Ghosts’
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May 01, 2026 |
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Sally Thompson’s ‘Black Robes Enter Coyote’s World,’ Part Two: Chief Charlo’s speech
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Apr 24, 2026 |
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Sally Thompson’s ‘Black Robes Enter Coyote’s World,’ Part One: Father Pierre-Jean De Smet
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Apr 17, 2026 |
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On civics and memory: Jule Banville and Jad Abumrad reimagine the obituary with ‘The Obit Project’ (Extended)
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Apr 10, 2026 |
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Nina McConigley’s ‘How to Commit a Postcolonial Murder’: Exploring race and eighties girlhood in the American West
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Apr 03, 2026 |
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Live! Pledge week episode: Allison De Jong is the voice behind many of your favorite ‘Field Notes’
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Mar 27, 2026 |
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Fred Haefele returns to “vehicular memoir” with ‘The Essential Book of Pickup Trucks’
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Mar 20, 2026 |
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Growing up with Andrew Martin: In ‘Down Time,’ the author creates avatars of mourning, quest for happiness
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Mar 13, 2026 |
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Maya Jewell Zeller publishes unfurling, rhizomatic memoir-in-essays, ‘Raised by Ferns’
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Mar 06, 2026 |
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“We’re all susceptible to cult ways of thinking”: Leah Sottile’s ‘Blazing Eye Sees All’ (Part Two)
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Feb 27, 2026 |
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“Far left meets far right, finds common cause”: Leah Sottile’s ‘Blazing Eye Sees All’ (Part One)
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Feb 20, 2026 |
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On blood and belonging: Morgan Talty’s ‘Fire Exit,’ now available in paperback!
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Feb 13, 2026 |
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“One trip was about fleeing; the other about pilgrimage ‘toward the self’”: Joanna Pocock’s ‘Greyhound’
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Feb 06, 2026 |
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TWQ Mini: Crystal Koosman becomes an “amateur archivist,” opens Last Best Books
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Feb 01, 2026 |
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Acclaimed novelist David Guterson on the “lineages of lamas” (and more) in ‘Evelyn in Transit’
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Jan 30, 2026 |
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Cable guy Colum McCann on connectivity, brokenness, and things left unsaid in ‘Twist’
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Jan 23, 2026 |
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Tami Haaland investigates ancestry and inheritance in ‘If I Had Said Beauty’
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Jan 16, 2026 |
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Beyond words: Brian Buckbee writes, dictates ‘We Should All Be Birds’ (with Carol Ann Fitzgerald)
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Jan 09, 2026 |
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Interrogating systems of power with raft guide Bridget Crocker, author of ‘The River’s Daughter’
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Jan 01, 2026 |
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Alice Bolin’s ‘Culture Creep,’ a “gut-churning ride” into Millennial girl- and boyhood (Part Two)
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Dec 19, 2025 |
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Seductive narratives and Alice Bolin’s ‘Culture Creep: Notes on the Pop Apocalypse’ (Part One)
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Dec 12, 2025 |
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TWQ Mini: Juicy stories, beautiful sentences, and NPR’s 2025 ‘Books We Love’
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Dec 06, 2025 |
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Where science meets storytelling: Traveling to ‘To the Moon and Back’ with novelist Eliana Ramage
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Dec 05, 2025 |
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Encore: Christine Wu on a shared language of food and her debut collection, ‘Familial Hungers’
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Nov 28, 2025 |
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“The only way you can know a person’s gender is [to] ask them”: Abi Maxwell, author of ‘One Day I’ll Grow Up and Be a Beautiful Woman’
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Nov 21, 2025 |
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On rivers, mouths, and memory: Shobha Rao discusses ‘Indian Country’ in advance of Montana tour
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Nov 14, 2025 |
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Live from the Ravalli County Museum: Chris Whitaker, “‘Sliding Doors’ moments,” and ‘All the Colors of the Dark’ (Part Two)
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Nov 07, 2025 |
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TWQ Mini with Lorissa Rinehart: Jeannette Rankin, “a North star,” and ‘Winning the Earthquake’
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Nov 02, 2025 |
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Live from the Ravalli County Museum: Chris Whitaker has learned to paint with ‘All the Colors of the Dark’ (Part One)
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Oct 31, 2025 |
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Live! Pledge week episode: Chapter One Bookstore’s Marisa Neyenhuis
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Oct 24, 2025 |
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River River poets Corrie Williamson and Joe Wilkins discuss landscape, safety, form, and history
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Oct 17, 2025 |
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“I’ve always loved a love story”: Sally Blakely on her debut romance, ‘Friends to Lovers’
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Oct 10, 2025 |
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Kevin Barry on his novel, ‘The Heart in Winter,’ “a western with County Cork accents”
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Oct 03, 2025 |
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Encore: Laura Marris on absence and archive
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Sep 26, 2025 |
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Encore: Keetje Kuipers on her poetics of humility, the danger in love poems about marriage, and bumping around in the dark
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Sep 23, 2025 |
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Encore: Wildlife biologist Diane K. Boyd is ‘A Woman Among Wolves’ (Part Two)
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Sep 12, 2025 |
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Encore: Wildlife biologist Diane K. Boyd is ‘A Woman Among Wolves’ (Part One)
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Sep 05, 2025 |
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Encore: Amy Gamerman’s ‘The Crazies’ (Part Two)
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Aug 29, 2025 |
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Encore: Amy Gamerman’s ‘The Crazies’ (Part One)
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Aug 22, 2025 |
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Encore: Ben Goldfarb’s interspecies imagination in ‘Crossings’
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Aug 15, 2025 |
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Encore: Hanif Abdurraqib’s urgent meditations on time, success, and witness in ‘There’s Always This Year’
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Aug 08, 2025 |
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Encore: Sarah Capdeville on her debut, ‘Aligning the Glacier’s Ghost: Essays on Solitude and Landscape’
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Aug 01, 2025 |
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Encore: Julia Phillips discusses womanhood, trust, and miraculous animals in her sophomore novel, ‘Bear’
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Jul 25, 2025 |
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Encore: Chris La Tray on ‘Becoming Little Shell’ (Part Two)
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Jul 18, 2025 |