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:
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This week on ‘The Write Question,’ the second half of a conversation with memoirist Melissa Febos, author of ‘The Dry Season: A Memoir of Pleasure in a Year Without Sex,’ out now from Knopf, an imprint of the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, which is a division of Penguin Random House. -
This week on ‘The Write Question,’ part one of a two-part conversation with memoirist Melissa Febos, author of ‘The Dry Season: A Memoir of Pleasure in a Year Without Sex,’ out now from Knopf, an imprint of the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, which is a division of Penguin Random House.
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This week on ‘The Write Question,’ host Lauren Korn returns to her conversation with Callan Wink, author of ‘Beartooth’ (Spiegel & Grau). This conversation originally aired January 23, 2025, under the title “There’s no end, really, or beginning to anything.” -
This week on ‘The Write Question,’ host Lauren Korn speaks with Lauren Westerfield, author of ‘Depth Control: Essays and Autofictions’ (Unsolicited Press). -
This week on ‘The Write Question,’ host Lauren Korn speaks with ecologist Mark Easter, author of ‘The Blue Plate: A Food Lover’s Guide to Climate Chaos’ (Patagonia Books). -
This week on ‘The Write Question,’ host Lauren Korn speaks with novelist Nathaniel Ian Miller, author of ‘Red Dog Farm’ (Little, Brown & Company). -
This week on ‘The Write Question,’ host Lauren Korn speaks with poet Keetje Kuipers, author of ‘Lonely Women Make Good Lovers’ (BOA Editions). -
This week, ‘The Write Question’ host Lauren Korn joins ‘A New Angle’ host Justin Angle in MTPR’s Studio B for a conversation with Cassidy Randall, author of ‘Thirty Below: The Harrowing and Heroic Story of the First All Women’s Ascent of Denali’ (Abrams Books). -
This week on ‘The Write Question,’ host Lauren Korn speaks with Oregon-based writer Joe Wilkins, author of ‘The Entire Sky’ (Little, Brown & Company). This episode originally aired December 12, 2024. -
Host Lauren Korn speaks with NPR’s Mary Louise Kelly about the paperback release of her memoir, ‘It Goes So Fast: The Year of No Do-Overs’ (Henry Holt & Company).
