The Write Question
Twice weekly on Thursday at 7PM, Sunday at 5:30AM
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’s 2024-2025 season is supported by a co-op of independent bookstores in Montana, encouraging a lifetime of learning through storytelling and conversation:
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.
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‘The Write Question’ host Lauren Korn goes on another ‘Picture Book Picnic,’ with a reading and conversation with picture book author Bess Kalb, featuring the sequel to her bestseller ‘Buffalo Fluffalo’: ‘Buffalo Fluffalo and Puffalo’ (Random House Studio).
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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. -
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. -
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.
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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). -
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). -
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. -
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. -
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). -
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?”
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This week on ‘The Write Question,’ host Lauren Korn speaks with Daniel Tam-Claiborne, author of ‘Transplants’ (Regalo Press).
