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326 - “Drylandia!”: ‘The Antidote’ digs into the Dust Bowl with characteristic Karen Russell charm and magic in the author’s sophomore novel

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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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326 - “Drylandia!”: ‘The Antidote’ digs into the Dust Bowl with characteristic Karen Russell charm and magic in the author’s sophomore novel

Thu, 13 Mar 2025
325 - “I’m always looking for the weird thing, the tilted thing”: ‘We Were the Universe’ with Kimberly King Parsons

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324 - Romancing the sound: NPR’s Linda Holmes writes about love and podcasting in ‘Back After This’

Sun, 02 Mar 2025
323 - The Eremocene; or, ‘The Age of Loneliness’: Laura Marris on absence and archive

Thu, 27 Feb 2025
322 - The colonial legacy of the climate crisis and living beyond the apocalypse in Tao Leigh Goffe’s ‘Dark Laboratory’

Thu, 20 Feb 2025
321 - Former ‘Normal Gossip’ host Kelsey McKinney continues to spread the gospel of gossip in ‘You Didn’t Hear This From Me’

Thu, 13 Feb 2025
320 - Changing landscapes, changing narratives: Sarah Capdeville on her debut, ‘Aligning the Glacier’s Ghost: Essays on Solitude and Landscape’

Thu, 06 Feb 2025
319 - Falling in love with Jericho Brown: Discussing vulnerability and poetry in advance of his appearance in Missoula for Black History Month

Thu, 30 Jan 2025
318 - TWQ Mini: Returning to ‘Class’ by Stephanie Land, in anticipation of event with Chapter One Bookstore

Sun, 26 Jan 2025
317 - “There’s no end, really, or beginning to anything”: Callan Wink’s ‘Beartooth’ is a novel of grief, family, and the wild

Thu, 23 Jan 2025
316 - ‘In Old Sky’: New Mexico Poet Laureate Lauren Camp is making a case for darkness

Thu, 16 Jan 2025
315 - “The last one standing”: Wildlife biologist Diane K. Boyd is ‘A Woman Among Wolves’ (Part Two)

Thu, 09 Jan 2025
314 - Lone wolf: Wildlife biologist Diane K. Boyd is ‘A Woman Among Wolves’ (Part One)

Thu, 02 Jan 2025
313 - “Woman versus bear”: Julia Phillips discusses womanhood, trust, and miraculous animals in her sophomore novel, ‘Bear’

Thu, 26 Dec 2024
312 - “My imagination is rooted in place; it doesn’t exist in the ether”: Joe Wilkins on writing ‘The Entire Sky’

Thu, 12 Dec 2024
311 - ‘Cloud Missives’: Manifesting and excavating the self with Haudenosaunee poet Kenzie Allen

Thu, 05 Dec 2024
310 - TWQ Mini: Meghan Keane is a ‘Party of One,’ her own best life partner

Sun, 01 Dec 2024
309 - Encore: ‘And Then She Fell’: Alicia Elliott on motherhood, horror, and storytelling

Sun, 01 Dec 2024
308 - TWQ Mini: NPR’s Andrew Limbong discusses 2024’s reading trends and ‘Books We Love’

Sat, 30 Nov 2024
307 - Chris La Tray on ‘Becoming Little Shell’: “If pride was the air I was breathing, grief was what I was exhaling” (Part Two)

Thu, 14 Nov 2024
306 - 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)

Thu, 07 Nov 2024
305 - ‘Scattered Snows, to the North’: Retracing steps and self-correcting with Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Carl Phillips

Mon, 04 Nov 2024
304 - Live! Pledge week episode: Lauren Korn, Justin Angle, and Sarah Aronson discuss climate anxiety, environmental ethics, and care

Thu, 24 Oct 2024
303 - “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

Thu, 31 Oct 2024
302 - Ben Goldfarb’s interspecies imagination in ‘Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet’

Thu, 17 Oct 2024
301 - “What if the world is always ending?”: Celebrating ten years of ‘Station Eleven’ with Emily St. John Mandel

Thu, 10 Oct 2024
300 - Encore: Jory Mickelson interrogates and writes into Western histories and landscapes in ‘All This Divide’

Thu, 20 Mar 2025
299 - “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’

Thu, 26 Sep 2024
298 - A “Climate Solutions Week” encore: Digging into regenerative farming with ‘Healing Grounds’ author Liz Carlisle

Thu, 12 Sep 2024
297 - TWQ Mini: About Third Act, Bill McKibben says, “There’s no known way to stop old people from voting”

Sat, 07 Sep 2024
296 - TWQ Mini with Sarah Capdeville: “Hope is an action, a practice, and a way of being”

Sat, 31 Aug 2024
295 - TWQ Mini: Kevin Barry talks about his “abandoned Butte, Montana, novel” in this sneak peek of The Write Question’s eighteenth season

Sat, 17 Aug 2024
294 - Dr. Alan Townsend: “You don’t have to be a scientist to have a scientific lens on the world and let that influence your life in positive ways”

Thu, 13 Jun 2024
293 - Live! Pledge week episode: Montana Poet Laureate Chris La Tray on poetry, public radio, and ‘Becoming Little Shell’

Thu, 18 Apr 2024
292 - Maxim Loskutoff: “What Montana represents to me is an entire species-wide need to re-evaluate our relationship with the natural world”

Thu, 06 Jun 2024
291 - “The truth of the West is a constellation”: Betsy Gaines Quammen discusses ‘Myth and Mending on the Far Side of America’

Thu, 30 May 2024
290 - TWQ Mini: NPR’s Rachel Martin attempts to “hold the light” and “lean into weird” in new podcast, ‘Wild Card’

Sun, 26 May 2024
289 - “Grief was a safe space for me”: Victoria Chang on engaging with the work of abstract artist Agnes Martin

Thu, 23 May 2024
288 - The possibility of a door left open: Leonard S. Marcus helps celebrate 50 years of children’s programming on MTPR

Thu, 16 May 2024
287 - TWQ Mini: Jacqueline Winspear’s Maisie Dobbs series is coming to a close; the author is coming to the Helena Civic Center

Sat, 11 May 2024
286 - ‘With Every Great Breath’: Rick Bass on beauty, writing beyond his “cone of light,” and interrogating metaphor

Thu, 09 May 2024
285 - “What lifts your heart?”: Melissa Kwasny on “the big loss” and taking ‘The Cloud Path’ to healing

Thu, 25 Apr 2024
284 - TWQ Mini: The Moth Radio Hour’s Chloe Salmon on translating stage performances to the page and on the importance of storytelling, public radio

Sun, 21 Apr 2024
283 - TWQ Mini: Toni Jensen, UM’s James and Lois Welch Distinguished Visiting Native American Writer, to read at Missoula Art Museum

Fri, 12 Apr 2024
282 - Learning to reconnect with banished softness: Tessa Hulls on feeding “the ghosts that stand between mothers and daughters”

Thu, 11 Apr 2024
281 - Carmen Maria Machado on form & genre, fairy tales & urban legends, lineage & representation

Thu, 04 Apr 2024
280 - “It’s hard to make human beings believe in things”: Marie-Helene Bertino on belief, education, and the creative process in ‘Beautyland’

Thu, 28 Mar 2024
279 - TWQ Mini: Min Jin Lee on late-blooming, spending money, creating communities of care, and more!

Sat, 16 Mar 2024
269 - Encore: On ancestors and exes: Plains Cree poet Emily Riddle explores kinship, the colonial project of Canada, and climate change in ‘The Big Melt’

Thu, 21 Nov 2024
267 - Encore: Kate Lebo’s ‘Pie School’ reunion: Washington’s favorite pie lady revises and expands her 2014 cookbook

Thu, 19 Dec 2024

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