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Sometimes feet just stink. But if you’re a bumblebee, that’s actually a good thing.

As highly skilled predators, predaceous diving beetles can make easy meals of a wide variety of prey. But it’s their larvae that have the fierce reputation earning them the nickname “water tigers.”

This week Lauren chats with fiction writer Robin McLean, author of Pity the Beast, a contemporary, eco-feminist Western in which a woman escapes to the northern Rocky Mountains after a violent encounter with a number of people close to her, including her husband and her half-sister. With leanings into and outside of the contemporary American West, into and outside of morality and goodness, this novel is a deep dive into myth, landscape, and freedom.

Similar to other insects, like honey bees and some wasps, the ants store nectar during times of plenty. But instead of storing this excess food within the nest or in combs, honey pot ants employ a different strategy — overfeeding some of their nest-mates.

This week during The Write Question, Idaho-based poet and essayist Robert Wrigley talks to trees. (And to Lauren! About the difference between poetry and prose, about fatherhood, about music, and more!)

This week during The Write Question, Lauren talks with cultural critic Anne Helen Petersen, co-author, alongside Charlie Warzel, of Out of Office: The Big Problem and Bigger Promise of Working from Home, who re-imagines a future wherein our work lives are no longer our entire lives.

This week on The Write Question, Lauren talks with Bozeman, Montana-based essayist Amy Leach about her modern bestiary, The Everybody Ensemble, in which she brings together a cacophony of voices—of the many, many animals that populate our world.

This week’s episode is an encore broadcast of Sarah Aronson’s conversation with Stephanie Land about her 2019 memoir, MAID: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother’s Will to Survive. 2021 brought a Netflix adaptation of the memoir. The critically acclaimed series prompted a surge in memoir sales for Land, as well as a renewed interest in labor rights and conversations about America’s working poor.

The world of retail is constantly changing, and savvy business people learn to evolve with it. The pandemic introduced a whole new set of rules into an already dynamic landscape. When change and chaos are the new normal, how can retailers continue to anticipate the needs of the consumer?

This week, Lauren speaks with Helena, Montana native Annie Connole, whose debut book, The Spring: A Mythic Memoir, chronicles the author’s episodic, almost encyclopedic encounters with grief, with the animals that crossed her path after the loss of her partner in 2014, both in her waking life and in her dreams. The Spring is the author’s grief in-process — a transformation, a resurrection.