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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TWQ Mini: Jacqueline Winspear’s Maisie Dobbs series is coming to a close; the author is coming to the Helena Civic Center
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May 11, 2024 |
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‘With Every Great Breath’: Rick Bass on beauty, writing beyond his “cone of light,” and interrogating metaphor
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May 10, 2024 |
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“What lifts your heart?”: Melissa Kwasny on “the big loss” and taking ‘The Cloud Path’ to healing
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Apr 26, 2024 |
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TWQ Mini: The Moth Radio Hour’s Chloe Salmon on translating stage performances to the page and on the importance of storytelling, public radio
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Apr 21, 2024 |
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TWQ Mini: Toni Jensen, UM’s James and Lois Welch Distinguished Visiting Native American Writer, to read at Missoula Art Museum
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Apr 12, 2024 |
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Learning to reconnect with banished softness: Tessa Hulls on feeding “the ghosts that stand between mothers and daughters”
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Apr 12, 2024 |
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Carmen Maria Machado on form & genre, fairy tales & urban legends, lineage & representation
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Apr 05, 2024 |
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“It’s hard to make human beings believe in things”: Marie-Helene Bertino on belief, education, and the creative process in ‘Beautyland’
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Mar 29, 2024 |
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TWQ Mini: Min Jin Lee on late-blooming, spending money, creating communities of care, and more!
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Mar 16, 2024 |
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Peddling bright colors: Michael Finkel investigates ‘A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession’ in ‘The Art Thief’
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Mar 15, 2024 |
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The gold in them thar hills is a hush: Arnold “Smoke” Elser and Eva-Maria Maggi discuss Smoke’s ‘Lifetime in the Bob Marshall Wilderness’
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Mar 01, 2024 |
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TWQ Outtake: What did Smoke Elser teach Eva-Maria Maggi? “It’s the hush of the land, really”
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Mar 01, 2024 |
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TWQ encores conversation with Bryce Andrews in anticipation of event at Ravalli County Museum, paperback release of ‘Holding Fire’
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Feb 20, 2024 |
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Elise Atchison’s ‘Crazy Mountain’ explores community and commodity in a rapidly changing West
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Feb 16, 2024 |
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Kathleen McLaughlin’s ‘Blood Money: The Story of Life, Death, and Profit Inside America’s Blood Industry’
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Feb 09, 2024 |
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Poetry and property taxes, part 2: Josh Slotnick on growth in the West, resiliency, and the “Shakespearean Threshold”
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Jan 26, 2024 |
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Poetry and property taxes, part 1: Josh Slotnick on audience and the complexities of writing and “commissioner-ing”
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Jan 19, 2024 |
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Former TWQ host pens memoir about critters, careers, and capitalism in Yellowstone Country
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Jan 12, 2024 |
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“I want to listen to other people’s lifetimes; I want to listen to history”: Alexandra Teague’s ‘Spinning Tea Cups’ explores family, reality, and time
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Dec 29, 2023 |
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On ancestors and exes: Plains Cree poet Emily Riddle explores kinship, the colonial project of Canada, and climate change in ‘The Big Melt’
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Dec 22, 2023 |
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Kate Lebo’s ‘Pie School’ reunion: Washington’s favorite pie lady revises and expands her 2014 cookbook
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Dec 15, 2023 |
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In ‘This Country,’ cartoonist Navied Mahdavian wonders, “Do I belong here? Is this where I want to be?”
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Dec 08, 2023 |
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TWQ Mini: “The Brené Brown of the environmental movement,” Heather White, will be at the Bozeman Public Library tonight!
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Dec 06, 2023 |
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D.M. Bradford’s ‘Bottom Rail on Top’ is a prismatic, paratextual intervention on Black history in America
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Dec 01, 2023 |
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TWQ Mini: Andrew Limbong discusses NPR’s “thoughtfully curated” year-end list, Books We Love
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Nov 26, 2023 |
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Sindya Bhanoo explores the dislocation, dissonance, and loneliness of South Indian immigrants in ‘Seeking Fortune Elsewhere’
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Nov 17, 2023 |
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‘Class’: Follow-up to Stephanie Land’s bestselling memoir chronicles her “hungriest year”
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Nov 10, 2023 |
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TWQ Mini: Making sense of our lives, considering the nature of loss, and contemplating the “second arrow” with Shankar Vedantam
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Nov 05, 2023 |
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The primal, lyric imaginings in Maya Jewell Zeller’s ‘out takes/ glove box’
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Nov 03, 2023 |
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Live! Pledge week episode: Charlotte Macorn, mercurial icon and the voice of your generation
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Oct 27, 2023 |
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‘Iggy Horse’: Michael Earl Craig on “castle energy,” genre, and the wind
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Oct 20, 2023 |
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TWQ Outtake: Michael Earl Craig reads “The Salesman Had Two Bags” from ‘Iggy Horse’
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Oct 20, 2023 |
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TWQ Outtake: Michael Earl Craig reads “Preparing to Paint the Body of the Dead Christ in the Tomb” from ‘Iggy Horse’’
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Oct 20, 2023 |
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‘Unexpected Weather Events’: Erin Pringle on grief, memory, and the short story
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Oct 13, 2023 |
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“I care for your beauty”: Reflecting on ten years of ‘Braiding Sweetgrass’ with Robin Wall Kimmerer
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Oct 06, 2023 |
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‘And Then She Fell’: Alicia Elliott on motherhood, horror, and storytelling
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Sep 29, 2023 |
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‘Tolstoy Killed Anna Karenina’: Dara Barrois/Dixon on the responsibilities and consequences of art-making
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Sep 15, 2023 |
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Christine Byl’s debut novel ‘Lookout’ centers community, resists western stereotypes
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Sep 08, 2023 |
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‘This is Wildfire’: Nick Mott and Justin Angle follow award-winning podcast with “first of its kind” guide
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Sep 01, 2023 |
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Encore: The many layers of Charmaine Wilkerson’s ‘Black Cake’
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Aug 25, 2023 |
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Encore: ‘On a Benediction of Wind’: The quiet nature of Charles Finn’s poetry
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Aug 18, 2023 |
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Encore: Romantic pragmatism, pragmatic romanticism: Claire Boyles’ ‘Site Fidelity’
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Aug 11, 2023 |
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Encore: Walking through ‘Nemerov’s Door’ with Robert Wrigley
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Aug 04, 2023 |
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Encore: Splitting open the sky with Jenny Tinghui Zhang
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Jul 28, 2023 |
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Encore: Making shapes from silence: Kaveh Akbar’s ‘Pilgrim Bell’
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Jul 20, 2023 |
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Encore: ‘Less’ may be ‘Lost,’ but Andrew Sean Greer knows exactly who he is
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Jul 14, 2023 |
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Encore: ‘I’ve Had to Think Up a Way to Survive’: Lynn Melnick’s very own “sad banger”
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Jul 07, 2023 |
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John Vaillant’s ‘Fire Weather: A True Story From a Hotter World,’ Pt. 2
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Jun 30, 2023 |
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John Vaillant’s ‘Fire Weather: A True Story From a Hotter World,’ Pt. 1
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Jun 23, 2023 |
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‘We Hold Our Breath’: Micah Fields approaches debut memoir with “the mind of a historian and the heart of a poet”
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Jun 16, 2023 |
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‘The Shining Mountains’: Alix Christie discusses accuracy in historical fiction, family, and the necessity of storytelling
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Jun 10, 2023 |
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“Home is a place that you have to define for yourself”: Vanessa A. Bee’s debut memoir, ‘Home Bound’
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Jun 09, 2023 |