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,...
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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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Episodes
Fred Haefele returns to “vehicular memoir” with ‘The Essential Book of Pickup Trucks’
3/19/2026
This week on ‘The Write Question,’ host Lauren Korn speaks with memoirist Fred Haefele, author of ‘The Essential Book of Pickup Trucks’ (Bison Books).
Duration:00:29:15
Growing up with Andrew Martin: In ‘Down Time,’ the author creates avatars of mourning, quest for happiness
3/12/2026
This week on ‘The Write Question,’ host Lauren Korn speaks with University of Montana alum Andrew Martin (MFA ‘13), author of ‘Down Time,’ published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
Duration:00:29:15
Maya Jewell Zeller publishes unfurling, rhizomatic memoir-in-essays, ‘Raised by Ferns’
3/5/2026
This week on ‘The Write Question,’ host Lauren Korn speaks with poet, author, and educator Maya Jewell Zeller about her memoir-in-essays, ‘Raised by Ferns’ (Porphyry Press).
Duration:00:29:15
“We’re all susceptible to cult ways of thinking”: Leah Sottile’s ‘Blazing Eye Sees All’ (Part Two)
2/26/2026
In this episode of ‘The Write Question,’ host Lauren Korn speaks to journalist Leah Sottile about ‘Blazing Eye Sees All: Love Has Won, False Prophets, and the Fever Dream of the American New Age’ (Grand Central Publishing; Hachette Book Group). This is the second part of a two-part conversation.
Duration:00:29:15
“Far left meets far right, finds common cause”: Leah Sottile’s ‘Blazing Eye Sees All’ (Part One)
2/19/2026
In this episode of ‘The Write Question,’ host Lauren Korn speaks to journalist Leah Sottile about ‘Blazing Eye Sees All: Love Has Won, False Prophets, and the Fever Dream of the American New Age’ (Grand Central Publishing; Hachette Book Group). This is the first part of a two-part conversation.
Duration:00:29:15
On blood and belonging: Morgan Talty’s ‘Fire Exit,’ now available in paperback!
2/12/2026
This week on ‘The Write Question,’ host Lauren Korn speaks with Penobscot writer Morgan Talty, author of ‘Fire Exit’ (Tin House Books; Zando Projects), now available in paperback!
Duration:00:29:15
“One trip was about fleeing; the other about pilgrimage ‘toward the self’”: Joanna Pocock’s ‘Greyhound’
2/5/2026
This week on ‘The Write Question,’ host Lauren Korn speaks with Joanna Pocock, author of ‘Greyhound’ (Soft Skull Press).
Duration:00:29:15
TWQ Mini: Crystal Koosman becomes an “amateur archivist,” opens Last Best Books
2/1/2026
This mini episode of ‘The Write Question’ features used bookseller Crystal Koosman, owner of Last Best Books in Missoula, Montana. What does her used book ethic look like? What’s trending right now?
Duration:00:21:38
Acclaimed novelist David Guterson on the “lineages of lamas” (and more) in ‘Evelyn in Transit’
1/29/2026
In advance of his appearance in Helena at MT Book Co. on Monday, February 2, 2026, novelist David Guterson, author of ‘Snow Falling on Cedars’ (Vintage Books), discusses his latest book, ‘Evelyn in Transit’ (W. W. Norton & Company).
Duration:00:29:15
Cable guy Colum McCann on connectivity, brokenness, and things left unsaid in ‘Twist’
1/22/2026
In advance of his appearance in Livingston, Montana—as a guest of Elk River Arts & Lectures on January 23, 2026, at the Livingston Elks Lodge—novelist Colum McCann discusses the many themes and narratives found in his latest book, ‘Twist’ (Penguin Random House).
Duration:00:29:15
Tami Haaland investigates ancestry and inheritance in ‘If I Had Said Beauty’
1/15/2026
In this episode of ‘The Write Question,’ host Lauren Korn speaks with former Montana Poet Laureate Tami Haaland about her collection, ‘If I Had Said Beauty’ (Lost Horse Press).
Duration:00:29:15
Beyond words: Brian Buckbee writes, dictates ‘We Should All Be Birds’ (with Carol Ann Fitzgerald)
1/8/2026
This week on ‘The Write Question,’ host Lauren Korn speaks with Missoula, Montana-based writer Brian Buckbee, author of ‘We Should All Be Birds’ (Tin House Books; Zando Projects), written with Carol Ann Fitzgerald, who joins them for the first half of their conversation.
Duration:00:29:15
Interrogating systems of power with raft guide Bridget Crocker, author of ‘The River’s Daughter’
12/31/2025
This week on ‘The Write Question,’ host Lauren Korn speaks with memoirist and renowned whitewater rafting guide Bridget Crocker, author of ‘The River’s Daughter’ (Spiegel & Grau), about her life lived along the Snake River in Wyoming.
Duration:00:29:15
On basketball, food, and family: Seeing the world through Matt de la Peña’s ‘Última parada de la calle Market’
12/19/2025
Host Lauren Korn picnics with writer Matt de la Peña to celebrate the release of ‘Última parada de la calle Market,’ the Spanish edition of the Caldecott Honor Book and Newbery Award-winning ‘Last Stop on Market Street’ (G. P. Putnam’s Sons; Penguin Group USA).
Duration:00:29:57
Alice Bolin’s ‘Culture Creep,’ a “gut-churning ride” into Millennial girl- and boyhood (Part Two)
12/18/2025
This is the second part of a two-part conversation with Alice Bolin, author of ‘Culture Creep: Notes on the Pop Apocalypse’ (Mariner Books; HarperCollins).
Duration:00:29:15
Seductive narratives and Alice Bolin’s ‘Culture Creep: Notes on the Pop Apocalypse’ (Part One)
12/11/2025
This is the first part of a two-part conversation with Alice Bolin, author of ‘Culture Creep: Notes on the Pop Apocalypse’ (Mariner Books; HarperCollins).
Duration:00:29:15
TWQ Mini: Juicy stories, beautiful sentences, and NPR’s 2025 ‘Books We Love’
12/6/2025
Host Lauren Korn speaks with Andrew Limbong about NPR’s 2025 interactive book list of staff favorites, “Books We Love.”
Duration:00:17:32
Where science meets storytelling: Traveling to ‘To the Moon and Back’ with novelist Eliana Ramage
12/4/2025
On this episode of ‘The Write Question,’ host Lauren Korn speaks with debut novelist Eliana Ramage, author of ‘To the Moon and Back’ (Avid Reader Press, Simon & Schuster).
Duration:00:29:15
Encore: Christine Wu on a shared language of food and her debut collection, ‘Familial Hungers’
11/27/2025
This week on ‘The Write Question,’ host Lauren Korn returns to her conversation with poet Christine Wu, author of ‘Familial Hungers’ (Brick Books). This episode first aired June 19, 2025.
Duration:00:29:15
“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’
11/20/2025
This week on ‘The Write Question,’ host Lauren Korn speaks with novelist and memoirist Abi Maxwell, author of ‘One Day I’ll Grow Up and Be a Beautiful Woman’ (Alfred A. Knopf), now available in paperback.
Duration:00:29:15