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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,... more
FAQs about The Write Question:How many episodes does The Write Question have?The podcast currently has 367 episodes available.
August 04, 2023Encore: Walking through ‘Nemerov’s Door’ with Robert WrigleyThis week during ‘The Write Question,’ Lauren returns to her 2021 conversation with Idaho-based poet and essayist Robert Wrigley, who talks to trees—and about the difference between poetry and prose, about fatherhood, about music, and more!...more29minPlay
July 28, 2023Encore: Splitting open the sky with Jenny Tinghui ZhangThis week on ‘The Write Question,’ Lauren returns to her 2022 conversation with novelist Jenny Tinghui Zhang about her debut novel, ‘Four Treasures of the Sky’ (Flatiron Books), the heartbreaking story of young Daiyu, kidnapped from Zhifu, China, in 1882....more29minPlay
July 20, 2023Encore: Making shapes from silence: Kaveh Akbar’s ‘Pilgrim Bell’This week on ‘The Write Question,’ Lauren returns to her conversation with poet Kaveh Akbar, whose sophomore poetry collection, ‘Pilgrim Bell’ (Graywolf Press), empties the self of the self—of one’s nation, or nations, of one’s family, of one’s knowledge—leaving only one’s hollowed, and hallowed, body....more30minPlay
July 14, 2023Encore: ‘Less’ may be ‘Lost,’ but Andrew Sean Greer knows exactly who he isThis week on The Write Question, Lauren returns to her conversation with Andrew Sean Greer, or “Andy,” for this encore broadcast; the two chat about the follow-up to his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel ‘Less,’ ‘Less Is Lost’ (Little, Brown and Company)....more29minPlay
July 07, 2023Encore: ‘I’ve Had to Think Up a Way to Survive’: Lynn Melnick’s very own “sad banger”This week on ‘The Write Question,’ Lauren returns to her conversation with poet Lynn Melnick; the two chat about her debut memoir, ‘I’ve Had to Think Up a Way to Survive: On Trauma, Persistence, and Dolly Parton’ (University of Texas Press)....more29minPlay
June 30, 2023John Vaillant’s ‘Fire Weather: A True Story From a Hotter World,’ Pt. 2This week on ‘The Write Question,’ in the final half of a two-part conversation, host Lauren Korn speaks with Vancouver, Canada-based journalist John Vaillant, author of ‘Fire Weather: A True Story From a Hotter World’ (Alfred A. Knopf)....more30minPlay
June 23, 2023John Vaillant’s ‘Fire Weather: A True Story From a Hotter World,’ Pt. 1This week on ‘The Write Question,’ in the first of a two-part conversation, host Lauren Korn speaks with Vancouver, Canada-based journalist John Vaillant, author of ‘Fire Weather: A True Story From a Hotter World’ (Alfred A. Knopf)....more29minPlay
June 16, 2023‘We Hold Our Breath’: Micah Fields approaches debut memoir with “the mind of a historian and the heart of a poet”This week on ‘The Write Question,’ host Lauren Korn chats with writer, teacher, and fly-fishing guide Micah Fields, author of ‘We Hold Our Breath: A Journey to Texas Between Storms’ (forthcoming, W. W. Norton & Company)....more29minPlay
June 10, 2023‘The Shining Mountains’: Alix Christie discusses accuracy in historical fiction, family, and the necessity of storytellingFor this weekend broadcast of ‘The Write Question,’ journalist and novelist Alix Christie discusses her novel, ‘The Shining Mountains’ (High Road Books)....more23minPlay
June 09, 2023“Home is a place that you have to define for yourself”: Vanessa A. Bee’s debut memoir, ‘Home Bound’This week on ‘The Write Question,’ host Lauren Korn speaks with Vanessa A. Bee, author of the memoir ‘Home Bound: An Uprooted Daughter’s Reflections on Belonging’ (Astra House)....more29minPlay
FAQs about The Write Question:How many episodes does The Write Question have?The podcast currently has 367 episodes available.