The Write Question

384 - Live from the Ravalli County Museum: Kevin Fedarko takes ‘A Walk in the Park’ (Part One)

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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384 - Live from the Ravalli County Museum: Kevin Fedarko takes ‘A Walk in the Park’ (Part One)

Thu, 01 Oct 2026
383 - TWQ Mini: Allison Aubrey takes the tired out of retirement with ‘Your Turn’

Sat, 19 Sep 2026
382 - Manoush, Scott, Alex, and Sarah: NPR hosts discuss their books on movement, animals, and economics

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Thu, 27 Nov 2025
348 - “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
347 - On rivers, mouths, and memory: Shobha Rao discusses ‘Indian Country’ in advance of Montana tour

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

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

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

Sun, 02 Nov 2025
343 - 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
342 - River River poets Corrie Williamson and Joe Wilkins discuss landscape, safety, form, and history

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

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

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

Thu, 28 Aug 2025
331 - 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
327 - Encore: Amy Gamerman’s ‘The Crazies’ (Part One)

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

Thu, 25 Sep 2025
315 - Encore: Wildlife biologist Diane K. Boyd is ‘A Woman Among Wolves’ (Part Two)

Thu, 11 Sep 2025