This week on ‘The Write Question,’ in the first part of a two-part conversation, Chris La Tray, Métis storyteller and Montana Poet Laureate (2023-2025), discusses his memoir, ‘Becoming Little Shell: A Landless Indian’s Journey Home’ (Milkweed Editions).

For this web exclusive episode of ‘The Write Question,’ host Lauren Korn speaks with poet Carl Phillips, author of ‘Scattered Snows, to the North,’ and the Pulitzer Prize-winning ‘Then the War and Selected Poems, 2007-2020’ (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), in advance of his appearance at the Missoula Art Museum on November 6, 2024.

This week on ‘The Write Question,’ host Lauren Korn speaks with Sarah Gerard about ‘Carrie Carolyn Coco: My Friend, Her Murder, and an Obsession with the Unthinkable’ (Zando Projects).

This 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.

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).

This 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.

This week on ‘The Write Question,’ host Lauren Korn speaks with poet Jory Mickelson about ‘All This Divide’ (Spuyten Duyvil Publishing).

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).

For 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).

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.