
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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This week during ‘The Write Question,’ we return to Cherie’s 2017 conversation with Carmen Giménez Smith, a politically aware and feminist-oriented poet, who focuses on general cultural references rather than a sentimental personal narrative in her poetry.
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This week during ‘The Write Question,’ we return to Lauren’s 2021 conversation with poet, essayist, and pie lady Kate Lebo about ‘The Book of Difficult Fruit,’ a dark and funny encyclopedia-memoir-essay collection-cookbook.
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In this encore broadcast, Chérie Newman speaks with novelist Chad Dundas about his debut novel, ‘Champion of the World’: Set in the world of wrestling in the 1920s, a husband and wife are set adrift in a place where everyone has something to hide and not even the fights can be taken at face value.
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In this encore broadcast, Sarah Aronson and Prageeta Sharma discuss the relationship between poetry and grief, both in regards to her loss as well as the collective uncertainty of COVID. The two also grapple with themes of misunderstanding, witness, and beauty in an effort to make sense of the what it means to be human.
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This week on The Write Question, we revisit Lauren’s conversation with Shakespeare scholar Gretchen E. Minton; the two dive into, well, Shakespeare!
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This week on ‘The Write Question,’ we revisit Lauren’s 2021 conversation with Canadian poet, editor, and community organizer Rebecca Salazar.
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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.’
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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.