This week on ‘The Write Question,’ host Lauren Korn speaks with author and environmental activist Rick Bass, author of ‘With Every Great Breath’ (Counterpoint Press), a collection of new and selected essays spanning nearly thirty years: from 1995-2023.

‘With Every Great Breath’: Rick Bass on beauty, writing beyond his “cone of light,” and interrogating metaphor

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, Jess Walter, Stephen Graham Jones, Hoa Nguyen, Maggie Shipstead, Elissa Washuta, and others.

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‘With Every Great Breath’: Rick Bass on beauty, writing beyond his “cone of light,” and interrogating metaphor

‘With Every Great Breath’: Rick Bass on beauty, writing beyond his “cone of light,” and interrogating metaphor

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