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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.

TWQ host Lauren Korn spoke with Marina Richie about her memoir, ‘Halcyon Journey: In Search of the Belted Kingfisher,’ in June of this year, of 2022, before it won the 2022 National Outdoor Book Award in the “Journeys” category.

In June, Terry Tempest Williams visited Missoula, Montana, to take part in the 2022 “In the Footsteps of Norman Maclean” literary festival, which was held at the Wilma Theater. In the second of a two-part conversation, host Lauren Korn and and Terry, a beloved writer and activist, talk about the festival—but also about sisterhood and Terry’s preoccupations with fragment, fracture, and beauty.

In June, Terry Tempest Williams visited Missoula, Montana, to take part in the 2022 “In the Footsteps of Norman Maclean” literary festival, which was held at the Wilma Theater. In this conversation, host Lauren Korn and the beloved writer and activist talk about the festival and the discussions it provoked: on hope and engagement; on building communities of care; on how the overturning of Roe v. Wade speaks to broader issues of human and non-human relationships.

In this episode of ‘The Write Question,’ host Lauren Korn speaks with Great Falls, Montana-based novelist Leigh Ann Ruggiero, author of ‘Unfollowers,’ a tale of religious angst, unrequited love, and the upheaval of racial and economic privilege.

This week on ‘The Write Question,’ Lauren speaks with Jules Ohman about her debut novel, ‘Body Grammar.’ ‘Body Grammar’ tells the story of Lou, a young photographer who, after a tragic hiking accident, finds herself in front of the camera, distracted by the dizzying world of international modeling.

After several long moments the bird erupted out of the water, landing on its stone while droplets rolled off its tightly woven feathers, a look of nonchalance twinkling in its chocolate-brown eye. I blinked. A diving songbird? I thought I knew water birds: ducks, ospreys, bald eagles, kingfishers. But here was a robin-sized bird using river stones as diving boards, doing who knows what in currents too strong for me to cross.

One warm, sunny day I saw a crow squatting low on a large ant hill, head high, wingtips outstretched and fluttering softly on the ground. I had never seen this behavior before and I wondered if she might be injured. I watched her with concern before she stood up, briefly picked at her feathers, and flew away.

One afternoon while balcony-bird-watching, my attention was captured by a tiny black speck aggressively pursuing much larger birds, undeterred by the threat of sharp beaks and deadly talons. With equal measure, he intimidated crows, Osprey, eagles, vultures, and herons away from his territorial claim along the riverbank. With my binoculars and guidebook in hand, I identified him as a male Red-winged Blackbird after he flashed the telltale red and yellow striped epaulets on his shoulders, and loudly sang, “CONK-LA-REEEEE!” when he settled on a shoreline tree branch.