The Write Question

In this TWQ mini episode, host Lauren Korn speaks with writer, instructor, and landscape designer and historian Kathryn Aalto, author of ‘Writing Wild: Women Poets, Ramblers, and Mavericks Who Shape How We See the Natural World.’

This week on ‘The Write Question,’ host Lauren Korn speaks with David Quammen, author of ‘Breathless: The Scientific Race to Defeat a Deadly Virus’—an in-depth, scientific look at the coronavirus pandemic that swept, and still sweeping, the globe.

This week on ‘The Write Question,’ University of Montana alumna and poet Caylin Capra-Thomas chats with host Lauren Korn about her debut collection, ‘Iguana Iguana.’

Host Lauren Korn speaks with Margot Kahn and Kelly McMasters, the co-editors of ‘Wanting: Women Writing About Desire,’ an anthology of essays that explores desire, its ever-changing shape—and from multiple lenses of womanhood.

This week on ‘The Write Question,’ host Lauren Korn speaks with Fatimah Asghar, author of ‘When We Were Sisters,’ a novel that traces the intense bond of three orphaned siblings who, after their parents die, are left to raise one another.

This week on ‘The Write Question,’ Lauren speaks with poet Charles Finn about his collaborative collection, ‘On a Benediction of Wind: Poems and Photographs from the American West,’ a collection of free verse and prose poems, paired with a black-and-white landscape photographs from the Pacific Northwest and the American Southwest taken by photographer Barbara Michelman.

In this mini episode of ‘The Write Question,’ host Lauren Korn sits down with author Anne “Annie” Lamott to talk about her seminal book on the craft of writing (and living), ‘Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life’ (Anchor Books), and about maintaining hope—during the writing process, yes, but also in a time of climate crisis and during political and social upheaval.

This week, we return to Lauren’s January 2022 conversation with Nathaniel Ian Miller, author of ‘The Memoirs of Stockholm Sven,’ the fictional story of Sven Ormson, a restless industrial worker who, in 1916, seeks adventure in a mining camp between mainland Norway and the North Pole.

This week on ‘The Write Question,’ host Lauren Korn speaks with Cree (nehiyaw) novelist Jessica Johns, author of ‘Bad Cree,’ the story of Mackenzie, a young Cree woman who returns, night after night in her dreams, to a memory from before her sister Sabrina’s untimely death: a weekend at the family's lakefront campsite, long obscured by a fog of guilt.

This week on ‘The Write Question,’ Lauren speaks with Andrew Sean Greer—Andy—about the follow-up to his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, ‘Less,’ ‘Less Is Lost’ (Little, Brown and Company).