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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 346 episodes available.
October 25, 2024Live! Pledge week episode: Lauren Korn, Justin Angle, and Sarah Aronson discuss climate anxiety, environmental ethics, and careThis week on ‘The Write Question,’ host Lauren Korn joins ‘A New Angle’ host Justin Angle and ‘Grounding’ host Sarah Aronson in Studio A for a live pledge week episode that centers climate: anxiety, ethics, and care....more1h 3minPlay
October 18, 2024Ben Goldfarb’s interspecies imagination in ‘Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet’This week on ‘The Write Question,’ conservation journalist Ben Goldfarb discusses ‘Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet’ (W. W. Norton & Company)....more29minPlay
October 11, 2024“What if the world is always ending?”: Celebrating ten years of ‘Station Eleven’ with Emily St. John MandelThis week on ‘The Write Question,’ host Lauren Korn speaks with novelist Emily St. John Mandel about ‘Station Eleven’ (Vintage Books; Penguin Random House), now in its tenth year of publication....more29minPlay
October 04, 2024Jory Mickelson interrogates and writes into Western histories and landscapes in ‘All This Divide’This week on ‘The Write Question,’ host Lauren Korn speaks with poet Jory Mickelson about ‘All This Divide’ (Spuyten Duyvil Publishing)....more29minPlay
September 27, 2024“It’s now or it might-not-be-ever”: Hanif Abdurraqib’s urgent meditations on time, success, and witness in ‘There’s Always This Year’In advance of his appearances in Montana, poet, essayist, and cultural critic Hanif Abdurraqib speaks with host Lauren Korn about ‘There’s Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension’ (Penguin Random House)....more29minPlay
September 13, 2024A “Climate Solutions Week” encore: Digging into regenerative farming with ‘Healing Grounds’ author Liz CarlisleFor NPR’s “Climate Solutions Week,” in 2024 leaning into food systems, ‘The Write Question’ team is encoring host Lauren Korn’s conversation with professor of food and farming Liz Carlisle, author of ‘Healing Grounds: Climate, Justice, and the Deep Roots of Regenerative Farming’ (Island Press)....more29minPlay
September 07, 2024TWQ Mini: About Third Act, Bill McKibben says, “There’s no known way to stop old people from voting”For this mini episode of ‘The Write Question,’ host Lauren Korn speaks with Bill McKibben, author of ‘The End of Nature’ (Penguin Random House; first published in 1989 and called the first book on global warming written for a general audience) and founder of 350.org; in 2020, Bill founded Third Act, a new political movement of retirees (60+ years) committed to the environment....more11minPlay
August 31, 2024TWQ Mini with Sarah Capdeville: “Hope is an action, a practice, and a way of being”In this sneak peek of season eighteen of ‘The Write Question,’ you’ll hear memoirist Sarah Capdeville speaking about her debut memoir, ‘Aligning the Glacier’s Ghost: Essays on Solitude and Landscape’ (University of New Mexico Press)....more14minPlay
August 17, 2024TWQ Mini: Kevin Barry talks about his “abandoned Butte, Montana, novel” in this sneak peek of The Write Question’s eighteenth seasonFor this mini episode, host Lauren Korn gives listeners a look into the eighteenth season of ‘The Write Question,’ coming this fall. In this sneak peek, you’ll hear Irish author Kevin Barry talking about ‘The Heart in Winter’ (Doubleday Books; Penguin Random House)....more10minPlay
July 12, 2024Encore: ‘This is Wildfire’: Nick Mott and Justin Angle follow award-winning podcast with “first of its kind” guideThis week, MTPR is encoring host Lauren Korn’s conversation with podcasters and authors Nick Mott and Justin Angle; the three talk about the nuances of wildfire: ‘This is Wildfire: How to Protect Yourself, Your Home, and Your Community in the Age of Heat’ (Bloomsbury Publishing) “offers everything you need to know about fire in one useful volume.”...more30minPlay
FAQs about The Write Question:How many episodes does The Write Question have?The podcast currently has 346 episodes available.