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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.
June 02, 2023“You don’t have to be perfect to serve the future”: Lisa Wells on ‘Believers: Making a Life at the End of the World’This week on ‘The Write Question,’ host Lauren Korn speaks with poet and essayist Lisa Wells, author of ‘Believers: Making a Life at the End of the World’ (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)....more29minPlay
May 26, 2023Jane Wong spotlights food as the connective tissue between us all in ‘Meet Me Tonight in Atlantic City’This week on ‘The Write Question,’ host Lauren Korn speaks with poet and professor Jane Wong about her debut memoir, ‘Meet Me Tonight in Atlantic City’ (Tin House Books, 2023)....more29minPlay
May 19, 2023‘The Lost Journals of Sacajewea’: Debra Magpie Earling’s second novel sees the mythologized figure as the agent of her own storyThis week on ‘The Write Question,’ Lauren speaks with Bitterroot Salish novelist Debra Magpie Earling about her novel, ‘The Lost Journals of Sacajewea’ (Milkweed Editions)....more29minPlay
May 12, 2023Steph Jagger’s ‘Everything Left to Remember’: “As a person who is losing their mother, I refuse to lose myself as a daughter”‘The Write Question’ is celebrating Mother’s Day with writer, explorer, and life coach Steph Jagger—author of ‘Everything Left to Remember: My Mother, Our Memories, and a Journey Through the Rocky Mountains’ (Flatiron Books), which came out in paperback in March of 2023....more29minPlay
April 28, 2023Timothy Egan on ‘The Ku Klux Klan’s Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them’This week on ‘The Write Question,’ host Lauren Korn chats with Pulitzer Prize-winning author Timothy Egan about ‘A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan’s Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them’ (Viking Press)....more29minPlay
April 21, 2023Encore: The beauty and the grief: Ada Limón’s ‘The Hurting Kind’This week on ‘The Write Question,’ we return to host Lauren Korn’s 2022 conversation with the current U. S. Poet Laureate, Ada Limón, author of ‘The Hurting Kind’ (Milkweed Editions). Note: At the time of this conversation Ada hadn’t yet been named U. S. Poet Laureate....more29minPlay
April 14, 2023“The only truth that I really know”: Prince Shakur confronts mortality in ‘When They Tell You to Be Good’This week on ‘The Write Question,’ host Lauren Korn speaks with Prince Shakur, activist, organizer, and author of ‘When They Tell You to Be Good’ (Tin House Books)....more29minPlay
April 07, 2023Bryce Andrews re-writes western myths: Anti-violence, inheritance, reciprocity, and belonging in ‘Holding Fire’This week on ‘The Write Question,’ host Lauren Korn speaks with Bryce Andrews, author of ‘Holding Fire: A Reckoning with the American West’ (Mariner Books, HarperCollins)....more30minPlay
April 04, 2023National Poetry Month: Ada Limón reads “Forsythia”This April, Montana Public Radio is celebrating National Poetry Month by airing readings by poets featured on ‘The Write Question.’ Here: U. S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón, reading “Forsythia.”...more3minPlay
March 24, 2023“We need science that moves us”: ‘Writing Wild’ with Kathryn Aalto, the extended conversationIn early March, a mini episode with writer, instructor, and landscape designer and historian Kathryn Aalto aired on MTPR. This week, we return to women nature writers: this is the full, extended conversation with Kathryn, author of ‘Writing Wild: Women Poets, Ramblers, and Mavericks Who Shape How We See the Natural World.’...more29minPlay
FAQs about The Write Question:How many episodes does The Write Question have?The podcast currently has 367 episodes available.