The Write Question

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.

TWQ Mini with Lorissa Rinehart: Jeannette Rankin, “a North star,” and ‘Winning the Earthquake’

This mini episode of ‘The Write Question’ is actually an excerpt of a much longer conversation with Lorissa Rinehart, author of ‘Winning the Earthquake: How Jeannette Rankin Defied All Odds to Become the First Woman in Congress,’ which publishes this Tuesday, November 4, 2025 (St. Martin’s Press). Absent from this excerpt, but included in the extended conversation, is Karen Sterk, the CEO of the Jeannette Rankin Foundation.

11-02
12:37

Live from the Ravalli County Museum: Chris Whitaker has learned to paint with ‘All the Colors of the Dark’ (Part One)

This week on ‘The Write Question,’ the first of a two-part conversation with novelist Chris Whitaker, author of ‘All the Colors of the Dark’ (Crown Publishing Group). This conversation was recorded live at the Ravalli County Museum in Hamilton, Montana, in partnership with Chapter One Bookstore.

10-31
29:16

River River poets Corrie Williamson and Joe Wilkins discuss landscape, safety, form, and history

This week on ‘The Write Question, host Lauren Korn speaks with poets Corrie Williamson, author of ‘My Mother’s Bear Gun,’ and Joe Wilkins, author of ‘Pastoral, 1994,’ both published by River River Books.

10-17
29:00

“I’ve always loved a love story”: Sally Blakely on her debut romance, ‘Friends to Lovers’

This week on ‘The Write Question,’ host Lauren Korn speaks with Helena, Montana-based novelist Sally Blakely, author of ‘Friends to Lovers’ (Canary Street Press).

10-10
29:16

Kevin Barry on his novel, ‘The Heart in Winter,’ “a western with County Cork accents”

This week on ‘The Write Question,’ host Lauren Korn speaks with Irish author Kevin Barry, author of ‘The Heart in Winter’ (Doubleday Books; Penguin Random House) and the featured speaker at the inaugural Festival of Irish Writing in Butte, Montana: October 3-4, 2025.

10-03
28:54

Encore: Laura Marris on absence and archive

This week on ‘The Write Question,’ host Lauren Korn returns to her conversation with writer and translator Laura Marris, author of ‘The Age of Loneliness’ (Graywolf Press). This episode originally aired February 27, 2025.

09-26
29:00

Encore: Keetje Kuipers on her poetics of humility, the danger in love poems about marriage, and bumping around in the dark

This week on ‘The Write Question,’ host Lauren Korn returns to her conversation with poet Keetje Kuipers, author of ‘Lonely Women Make Good Lovers’ (BOA Editions). This conversation originally aired on May 1, 2025.

09-23
29:00

Encore: Wildlife biologist Diane K. Boyd is ‘A Woman Among Wolves’ (Part Two)

This week on ‘The Write Question,’ host Lauren Korn returns to the second and final part of a two-part conversation with world-renowned wildlife biologist Diane K. Boyd, author of ‘A Woman Among Wolves: My Journey Through Forty Years of Wolf Recovery’ (Greystone Books). This conversation originally aired January 9, 2025.

09-12
29:00

Encore: Wildlife biologist Diane K. Boyd is ‘A Woman Among Wolves’ (Part One)

This week on ‘The Write Question,’ host Lauren Korn returns to the first part of a two-part conversation with world-renowned wildlife biologist Diane K. Boyd, author of ‘A Woman Among Wolves: My Journey Through Forty Years of Wolf Recovery’ (Greystone Books). This episode originally aired January 2, 2025.

09-05
29:00

Encore: Amy Gamerman’s ‘The Crazies’ (Part Two)

This week on ‘The Write Question,’ host Lauren Korn returns to her conversation with journalist Amy Gamerman, author of ‘The Crazies: The Cattleman, the Wind Prospector, and a War Out West’ (Simon & Schuster). This is the second part of a two-part conversation and originally aired April 3, 2025.

08-29
29:00

Encore: Amy Gamerman’s ‘The Crazies’ (Part One)

This week on ‘The Write Question,’ host Lauren Korn returns to her conversation with journalist Amy Gamerman, author of ‘The Crazies: The Cattleman, the Wind Prospector, and a War Out West’ (Simon & Schuster). This is the first part of a two-part conversation and originally aired March 27, 2025.

08-22
29:00

Encore: Ben Goldfarb’s interspecies imagination in ‘Crossings’

This week on ‘The Write Question,’ host Lauren Korn returns to her conversation with conservation journalist Ben Goldfarb, author of ‘Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet’ (W. W. Norton & Company).

08-15
29:00

Encore: Hanif Abdurraqib’s urgent meditations on time, success, and witness in ‘There’s Always This Year’

Host Lauren Korn returns to her conversation with poet, essayist, and cultural critic Hanif Abdurraqib, author of ‘There’s Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension’ (Penguin Random House).

08-08
29:00

Encore: Sarah Capdeville on her debut, ‘Aligning the Glacier’s Ghost: Essays on Solitude and Landscape’

This week on ‘The Write Question,’ host Lauren Korn returns to her conversation with Sarah Capdeville, author of ‘Aligning the Glacier’s Ghost: Essays on Solitude and Landscape’ (University of Mexico Press). This conversation originally aired February 6, 2025.

08-01
29:00

Encore: Julia Phillips discusses womanhood, trust, and miraculous animals in her sophomore novel, ‘Bear’

This week on ‘The Write Question,’ host Lauren Korn returns to her conversation with novelist Julia Phillips, author of ‘Bear’ (Hogarth Press), her second novel centering sisterhood—this time on an island off the coast of Washington. This episode originally aired December 26, 2024.

07-25
29:00

Encore: Chris La Tray on ‘Becoming Little Shell’ (Part Two)

This week on ‘The Write Question,’ host Lauren Korn returns to the second part of her two-part conversation with Chris La Tray, Métis storyteller and Montana Poet Laureate (2023-2025), author of ‘Becoming Little Shell: A Landless Indian’s Journey Home’ (Milkweed Editions).

07-18
29:00

Encore: Chris La Tray on ‘Becoming Little Shell’ (Part One)

This week on ‘The Write Question,’ host Lauren Korn returns to the first part of a two-part conversation with Chris La Tray, Métis storyteller and Montana Poet Laureate (2023-2025). The two discuss his memoir, ‘Becoming Little Shell: A Landless Indian’s Journey Home’ (Milkweed Editions). This episode originally aired November 7, 2024, under the title “What kind of society do we live in where any Indigenous people can be considered ‘landless’ in the first place?”

07-11
29:00

Daniel Tam-Claiborne, author of ‘Transplants,’ finds comfort in advocacy and community

This week on ‘The Write Question,’ host Lauren Korn speaks with Daniel Tam-Claiborne, author of ‘Transplants’ (Regalo Press).

07-04
29:00

Encore: ‘We Were the Universe’ with Kimberly King Parsons

This week on ‘The Write Question’ host Lauren Korn returns to her conversation with Kimberly King Parsons, who discusses her debut novel, ‘We Were the Universe’ (out in paperback on June 24, 2025, from Vintage Books). This conversation originally aired March 6, 2025, under the title “I’m always looking for the weird thing, the tilted thing.”

06-27
28:58

“Have you eaten, yet?”: Christine Wu on a shared language of food and her debut collection, ‘Familial Hungers’

This week on ‘The Write Question,’ host Lauren Korn speaks with poet Christine Wu, author of ‘Familial Hungers’ (Brick Books).

06-20
29:00

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