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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.

The federal Food and Drug Administration is recalling three lots of Parent’s Choice Rice Baby Cereal after a sample of the products tested above guidance for naturally occurring inorganic arsenic.

This week on Can Do, we talk with global business woman and celebrity chef Maria Loi, who has a deep love for Mediterranean cooking and a desire to spread the healthy and hearty food that she grew up with.

This week, Lauren is speaking with poet and bookseller (and bookstore owner!) Mara Panich, whose debut collection, Blood is Not the Water, is a meditation on the body, its desires, its vulnerabilities, and often its sorrows.

This week during The Write Question, Lauren chats with poet, essayist, and pie lady Kate Lebo about The Book of Difficult Fruit, a dark and funny encyclopedia-memoir-essay collection-cookbook.

This week, Lauren chats with wildlife biologist and journalist Doug Chadwick, the author of Four Fifths a Grizzly (Patagonia Works), a book that challenges the idea that humans are separate from nature, from the non-human world.