The Write Question
Literature
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.
Location:
United States
Description:
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.
Twitter:
@mtpublicradio
Language:
English
Contact:
4062434931
Website:
http://mtpr.org/
Email:
contact@mtpr.org
Episodes
“What lifts your heart?”: Melissa Kwasny on “the big loss” and taking ‘The Cloud Path’ to healing
4/25/2024
In this episode of ‘The Write Question,’ host Lauren Korn speaks with poet Melissa Kwasny, author of ‘The Cloud Path’ (Milkweed Editions), a collection that reckons with grief and its subsequent healing.
Duration:00:28:59
TWQ Mini: The Moth Radio Hour’s Chloe Salmon on translating stage performances to the page and on the importance of storytelling, public radio
4/21/2024
On this mini episode of ‘The Write Question,’ host Lauren Korn speaks with Chloe Salmon, a director and producer at ‘The Moth Radio Hour’ and part of the editorial team behind ‘The Moth Presents: A Point of Beauty: True Stories of Holding on and Letting Go’ (Crown Publishing Group).
Duration:00:16:54
TWQ Mini: Toni Jensen, UM’s James and Lois Welch Distinguished Visiting Native American Writer, to read at Missoula Art Museum
4/12/2024
In this mini episode of ‘The Write Question,’ host Lauren Korn speaks with Métis author Toni Jensen, author of ‘Carry: A Memoir of Survival on Stolen Land’ (Ballantine Books; Penguin Random House). Toni will be giving a reading in collaboration with the University of Montana’s Creative Writing Program on April 12, 2024, at the Missoula Art Museum.
Duration:00:07:34
Learning to reconnect with banished softness: Tessa Hulls on feeding “the ghosts that stand between mothers and daughters”
4/11/2024
This week on ‘The Write Question,’ host Lauren Korn speaks with Tessa Hulls about her graphic memoir, ‘Feeding Ghosts’ (MCD; Farrar, Straus & Giroux), the story of three generations of women in her family: her grandmother, Sun Yi; her mother, Rose; and Tessa herself.
Duration:00:29:00
Carmen Maria Machado on form & genre, fairy tales & urban legends, lineage & representation
4/4/2024
This week on ‘The Write Question,’ host Lauren Korn speaks with Carmen Maria Machado, the headlining author at the 2024 Get Lit! Festival in Spokane, Washington, which takes place April 11th-14th.
Duration:00:29:00
“It’s hard to make human beings believe in things”: Marie-Helene Bertino on belief, education, and the creative process in ‘Beautyland’
3/28/2024
This week on ‘The Write Question,’ host Lauren Korn speaks with Marie-Helene Bertino, author of ‘Beautyland,’ a novel about the fragility and resilience of life on our Earth and in our universe.
Duration:00:29:00
Peddling bright colors: Michael Finkel investigates ‘A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession’ in ‘The Art Thief’
3/25/2024
This week on ‘The Write Question,’ host Lauren Korn speaks with Michael Finkel, author of ‘The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession,’ a true crime narrative that centers Stéphane Breitwieser, who carried out more than two hundred heists over nearly eight years—in museums and cathedrals all over Europe—and stole more than three hundred objects.
Duration:00:29:00
TWQ Mini: Min Jin Lee on late-blooming, spending money, creating communities of care, and more!
3/16/2024
For this mini episode of ‘The Write Question,’ host Lauren Korn speaks with National Book Award Finalist Min Jin Lee, author of the novels ‘Pachinko’ and ‘Free Food for Millionaires.’ Min Jin is also the editor of ‘The Best American Short Stories’ anthology for 2023 and will be traveling to Kalispell, Montana, for the Wachholz College Center’s WCC Speaker Series on March 18, 2024.
Duration:00:19:59
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’
2/29/2024
This week on ‘The Write Question,’ host Lauren Korn speaks with packers Arnold “Smoke” Elser and Eva-Maria Maggi, co-authors of ‘Hush of the Land: A Lifetime in the Bob Marshall Wilderness.’
Duration:00:29:00
TWQ Outtake: What did Smoke Elser teach Eva-Maria Maggi? “It’s the hush of the land, really”
2/29/2024
In a cutting room floor excerpt from this week’s conversation with Arnold “Smoke” Elser and Eva-Maria Maggi, host Lauren Korn asks the two what they’ve learned from each other.
Duration:00:04:45
TWQ encores conversation with Bryce Andrews in anticipation of event at Ravalli County Museum, paperback release of ‘Holding Fire’
2/20/2024
This week on ‘The Write Question,’ we’re airing an encore: host Lauren Korn’s conversation with Bryce Andrews, author of ‘Holding Fire: A Reckoning with the American West’ (Mariner Books, HarperCollins), now out in paperback!
Duration:00:29:01
Elise Atchison’s ‘Crazy Mountain’ explores community and commodity in a rapidly changing West
2/15/2024
This week on ‘The Write Question,’ host Lauren Korn speaks with Elise Atchison about her award-winning debut novel, ‘Crazy Mountain’ (Sowilo Press).
Duration:00:29:00
Kathleen McLaughlin’s ‘Blood Money: The Story of Life, Death, and Profit Inside America’s Blood Industry’
2/8/2024
This week on ‘The Write Question,’ host Lauren Korn speaks with Kathleen McLaughlin, author of ‘Blood Money: The Story of Life, Death, and Profit Inside America’s Blood Industry’ (Atria/One Signal Publishers), out now in paperback!
Duration:00:29:00
Poetry and property taxes, part 2: Josh Slotnick on growth in the West, resiliency, and the “Shakespearean Threshold”
1/25/2024
In the second part of a two-part conversation, host Lauren Korn speaks with poet, farmer, and Missoula, Montana, county commissioner Josh Slotnick about his second book of poetry, ‘If Only’ (Sandyhouse Press).
Duration:00:29:00
Poetry and property taxes, part 1: Josh Slotnick on audience and the complexities of writing and “commissioner-ing”
1/18/2024
In the first part of a two-part conversation, host Lauren Korn speaks with poet, farmer, and Missoula, Montana, county commissioner Josh Slotnick about his second book of poetry, ‘If Only’ (Sandyhouse Press).
Duration:00:29:00
Former TWQ host pens memoir about critters, careers, and capitalism in Yellowstone Country
1/11/2024
This week, ‘The Write Question’ creator and former host, Chérie Newman, returns Montana Public Radio to talk with Lauren about her debut memoir, ‘Other People’s Pets: Critters, Careers, and Capitalism in Yellowstone Country.’
Duration:00:29:01
“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
12/28/2023
This week on ‘The Write Question,’ host Lauren Korn speaks with Alexandra Teague, author of ‘Spinning Tea Cups: A Mythical American Memoir’ (Oregon State University Press).
Duration:00:29:00
On ancestors and exes: Plains Cree poet Emily Riddle explores kinship, the colonial project of Canada, and climate change in ‘The Big Melt’
12/21/2023
This week on ‘The Write Question,’ host Lauren Korn speaks with poet Emily Riddle, author of ‘The Big Melt’ (Nightwood Editions), a debut collection rooted in Nehiyaw (Cree) thought and urban millennial life events.
Duration:00:29:00
Kate Lebo’s ‘Pie School’ reunion: Washington’s favorite pie lady revises and expands her 2014 cookbook
12/14/2023
This week on ‘The Write Question,’ just in time for the holidays, “piecast” host Lauren Korn speaks with “pie lady” Kate Lebo, author of the cookbook ‘Pie School: Lessons in Fruit, Flour & Butter’ (Sasquatch Books).
Duration:00:29:00
In ‘This Country,’ cartoonist Navied Mahdavian wonders, “Do I belong here? Is this where I want to be?”
12/7/2023
This week on ‘The Write Question,’ host Lauren Korn speaks with cartoonist Navied Mahdavian, author of the graphic memoir, ‘This Country: Searching for Home in (Very) Rural America’ (Princeton Architectural Press).
Duration:00:29:00