The Write Question
Weekly on Thursday
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, Barry Lopez, Hoa Nguyen, Maggie Shipstead, Elissa Washuta, and others.
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Join us for an encore broadcast of Sarah Aronson’s 2019 conversation with Missoula-based novelist Casey Charles, author of ‘The Monkey Cages.’ -
This week, we revisit Lauren’s conversation with Missoula-based author Deirdre “Dee” McNamer. The two talk about ‘Aviary,’ Dee’s novel based in an unnamed mountain town (a town a lot like Missoula) and a neglected retirement community, Pheasant Run.
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This week, we’re revisiting Sarah Aronson’s 2019 conversation with Jeremy Smith about his book, ‘Breaking and Entering: The Extraordinary Story of a Hacker Called “Alien.”’
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Clocking in at 600 pages, Maggie Shipstead’s 'Great Circle' is the epic story of the fictional Marian Graves, a Missoula, Montana-born pilot, whose North-South around-the-world adventure is told painstakingly, achingly, and gracefully.
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This week, we’re revisiting Sarah Aronson’s conversation with poet Geffrey Davis. Davis’s award-winning second collection of poems reads as an evolving love letter and meditation on what it means to raise an American family.
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This week on ‘The Write Question,’ Lauren speaks with poet Ada Limón, author of ‘The Hurting Kind’ (Milkweed Editions) and host of the poetry podcast, ‘The Slowdown.’
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Chloe Caldwell’s ‘The Red Zone’ is a coming-of-age story; it’s a love story—it’s a book about periods. And this is a conversation about periods.
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This week on ‘The Write Question,’ Lauren speaks with poet Eloisa Amezcua, author of ‘Fighting Is Like a Wife’ (Coffee House Press), a collection of poems that reveal the love story and tragedy of two-time world boxing champion “Schoolboy” Bobby Chacon and his first wife, Valerie Ginn.
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What is a divinatory poetics? Can texts be haunted? This week, we return to Lauren‘s 2021 conversation with Toronto-based poet Hoa Nguyen, in which the two dive into the narratives that prompted and sit within Nguyen‘s new book of poetry, ‘A Thousand Times You Lose Your Treasure’ (Wave Books).
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From the freedom of her parents’ house and her grandmother’s flourishing garden, to the streets of Zhifu, China, and the saving grace of a modest calligraphy school, small Daiyu is taken to America, first to a California brothel and then to a small market in Idaho.
