The Write Question

552 - Manoush, Scott, Alex, and Sarah: NPR hosts discuss their books on movement, animals, and economics

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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552 - Manoush, Scott, Alex, and Sarah: NPR hosts discuss their books on movement, animals, and economics

Thu, 30 Jul 2026
551 - James Welch Native Lit Fest returns to Missoula July 15-18, 2026

Sun, 12 Jul 2026
550 - ‘The Negroes Send Their Love’: Sean Hill’s far-ranging homes, Black futures

Thu, 25 Jun 2026
549 - The swivel and startle of language: Long-time “horse girl” Emily Haworth-Booth discusses her debut novel, ‘Mare’

Thu, 18 Jun 2026
548 - ‘Make Believe’: Mac Barnett writes first book for adults, widens the aperture of what children’s books can be

Thu, 11 Jun 2026
547 - “Art witch and pragmatist” Courtney Maum publishes anti-capitalist romp, ‘Alan Opts Out’

Thu, 04 Jun 2026
546 - ‘A Truce That Is Not Peace’: Miriam Toews on language, silence, and pop-up wind museums

Thu, 28 May 2026
545 - A “Climate Solutions Week” encore: Mark Easter serves up ‘The Blue Plate’

Thu, 21 May 2026
544 - Don’t fence me in: Hillary Rosner explores global wildlife connectivity and movement in ‘Roam’

Thu, 14 May 2026
543 - Preeti Vangani returns to the body in her sophomore collection, ‘Fifty Mothers’

Thu, 07 May 2026
542 - Uncanny valley: Kim Fu’s venue of post-COVID horror, ‘The Valley of Vengeful Ghosts’

Thu, 30 Apr 2026
541 - Sally Thompson’s ‘Black Robes Enter Coyote’s World,’ Part Two: Chief Charlo’s speech

Thu, 23 Apr 2026
540 - Sally Thompson’s ‘Black Robes Enter Coyote’s World,’ Part One: Father Pierre-Jean De Smet

Thu, 16 Apr 2026
539 - On civics and memory: Jule Banville and Jad Abumrad reimagine the obituary with ‘The Obit Project’ (Extended)

Thu, 09 Apr 2026
538 - Nina McConigley’s ‘How to Commit a Postcolonial Murder’: Exploring race and eighties girlhood in the American West

Thu, 02 Apr 2026
537 - Live! Pledge week episode: Allison De Jong is the voice behind many of your favorite ‘Field Notes’

Thu, 26 Mar 2026
536 - Fred Haefele returns to “vehicular memoir” with ‘The Essential Book of Pickup Trucks’

Thu, 19 Mar 2026
535 - Growing up with Andrew Martin: In ‘Down Time,’ the author creates avatars of mourning, quest for happiness

Thu, 12 Mar 2026
534 - Maya Jewell Zeller publishes unfurling, rhizomatic memoir-in-essays, ‘Raised by Ferns’

Thu, 05 Mar 2026
533 - “We’re all susceptible to cult ways of thinking”: Leah Sottile’s ‘Blazing Eye Sees All’ (Part Two)

Thu, 26 Feb 2026
532 - “Far left meets far right, finds common cause”: Leah Sottile’s ‘Blazing Eye Sees All’ (Part One)

Thu, 19 Feb 2026
531 - On blood and belonging: Morgan Talty’s ‘Fire Exit,’ now available in paperback!

Thu, 12 Feb 2026
530 - “One trip was about fleeing; the other about pilgrimage ‘toward the self’”: Joanna Pocock’s ‘Greyhound’

Thu, 05 Feb 2026
529 - TWQ Mini: Crystal Koosman becomes an “amateur archivist,” opens Last Best Books

Sun, 01 Feb 2026
528 - Acclaimed novelist David Guterson on the “lineages of lamas” (and more) in ‘Evelyn in Transit’

Thu, 29 Jan 2026
527 - Cable guy Colum McCann on connectivity, brokenness, and things left unsaid in ‘Twist’

Thu, 22 Jan 2026
526 - Tami Haaland investigates ancestry and inheritance in ‘If I Had Said Beauty’

Thu, 15 Jan 2026
525 - Beyond words: Brian Buckbee writes, dictates ‘We Should All Be Birds’ (with Carol Ann Fitzgerald)

Thu, 08 Jan 2026
524 - Interrogating systems of power with raft guide Bridget Crocker, author of ‘The River’s Daughter’

Wed, 31 Dec 2025
523 - Alice Bolin’s ‘Culture Creep,’ a “gut-churning ride” into Millennial girl- and boyhood (Part Two)

Thu, 18 Dec 2025
522 - Seductive narratives and Alice Bolin’s ‘Culture Creep: Notes on the Pop Apocalypse’ (Part One)

Thu, 11 Dec 2025
521 - TWQ Mini: Juicy stories, beautiful sentences, and NPR’s 2025 ‘Books We Love’

Sat, 06 Dec 2025
520 - Where science meets storytelling: Traveling to ‘To the Moon and Back’ with novelist Eliana Ramage

Thu, 04 Dec 2025
519 - Encore: Christine Wu on a shared language of food and her debut collection, ‘Familial Hungers’

Thu, 27 Nov 2025
518 - “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’

Thu, 20 Nov 2025
517 - On rivers, mouths, and memory: Shobha Rao discusses ‘Indian Country’ in advance of Montana tour

Thu, 13 Nov 2025
516 - Live from the Ravalli County Museum: Chris Whitaker, “‘Sliding Doors’ moments,” and ‘All the Colors of the Dark’ (Part Two)

Thu, 06 Nov 2025
515 - Live! Pledge week episode: Chapter One Bookstore’s Marisa Neyenhuis

Thu, 23 Oct 2025
514 - TWQ Mini with Lorissa Rinehart: Jeannette Rankin, “a North star,” and ‘Winning the Earthquake’

Sun, 02 Nov 2025
513 - Live from the Ravalli County Museum: Chris Whitaker has learned to paint with ‘All the Colors of the Dark’ (Part One)

Thu, 30 Oct 2025
512 - River River poets Corrie Williamson and Joe Wilkins discuss landscape, safety, form, and history

Thu, 16 Oct 2025
511 - “I’ve always loved a love story”: Sally Blakely on her debut romance, ‘Friends to Lovers’

Thu, 09 Oct 2025
510 - Kevin Barry on his novel, ‘The Heart in Winter,’ “a western with County Cork accents”

Thu, 02 Oct 2025
509 - Encore: Amy Gamerman’s ‘The Crazies’ (Part Two)

Thu, 28 Aug 2025
501 - Encore: Keetje Kuipers on her poetics of humility, the danger in love poems about marriage, and bumping around in the dark

Tue, 23 Sep 2025
497 - Encore: Amy Gamerman’s ‘The Crazies’ (Part One)

Thu, 21 Aug 2025
493 - Encore: Laura Marris on absence and archive

Thu, 25 Sep 2025
490 - Encore: Sarah Capdeville on her debut, ‘Aligning the Glacier’s Ghost: Essays on Solitude and Landscape’

Thu, 31 Jul 2025
485 - Encore: Wildlife biologist Diane K. Boyd is ‘A Woman Among Wolves’ (Part Two)

Thu, 11 Sep 2025
484 - Encore: Wildlife biologist Diane K. Boyd is ‘A Woman Among Wolves’ (Part One)

Thu, 04 Sep 2025