Bare Bait Dance and Westside Theater Executive Director Joy French speaks with MTPR Special Projects Producer Keely Larson about A Few of My Favorite Things – Bare Bait’s holiday show this winter season.

Join Helena-based illustrator Kelly Anne Dalton and host of ‘The Write Question,’ Lauren Korn, for a Picture Book Picnic, in-person at the Butte Silver Bow Public Library. Join the reading and conversation Friday, November 21, 2025, at 11 a.m.

This week on ‘The Write Question,’ host Lauren Korn speaks with novelist Shobha Rao, author of ‘Indian Country’ (Crown Publishing Group). Shobha will be in Bozeman at Country Bookshelf on November 17th (with Shane Doyle); in Hamilton at Chapter One Bookstore on November 19; and in Missoula at Fact & Fiction Books on November 20, 2025.

This week on ‘The Write Question,’ the second of a two-part conversation with novelist Chris Whitaker, author of ‘All the Colors of the Dark’ (Crown Publishing Group). This conversation was recorded live at the Ravalli County Museum in Hamilton, Montana, in partnership with Chapter One Bookstore.

This mini episode of ‘The Write Question’ is actually an excerpt of a much longer conversation with Lorissa Rinehart, author of ‘Winning the Earthquake: How Jeannette Rankin Defied All Odds to Become the First Woman in Congress,’ which publishes this Tuesday, November 4, 2025 (St. Martin’s Press). Absent from this excerpt, but included in the extended conversation, is Karen Sterk, the CEO of the Jeannette Rankin Foundation.

This week on ‘The Write Question,’ the first of a two-part conversation with novelist Chris Whitaker, author of ‘All the Colors of the Dark’ (Crown Publishing Group). This conversation was recorded live at the Ravalli County Museum in Hamilton, Montana, in partnership with Chapter One Bookstore.