The Write Question

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).

This week on ‘The Write Question,' host Lauren Korn speaks with journalist Amy Gamerman, author of ‘The Crazies: The Cattleman, the Wind Prospector, and a War Out West' (Simon & Schuster). This is the second part of a two-part conversation.

This week on ‘The Write Question,' host Lauren Korn speaks with journalist Amy Gamerman, author of ‘The Crazies: The Cattleman, the Wind Prospector, and a War Out West' (Simon & Schuster). This is the first part of a two-part conversation.

This week on ‘The Write Question,' host Lauren Korn speaks with poet Jory Mickelson about ‘All This Divide' (Spuyten Duyvil Publishing). This episode originally aired October 2, 2024.

This week on ‘The Write Question,' host Lauren Korn speaks with Karen Russell, author of ‘The Antidote' (Alfred A. Knopf), her sophomore novel. The two talk about soil ecology, developing caretaking relationships, her home state (Florida), her first novel, ‘Swamplandia!' (Vintage Books), and more.

This week on ‘The Write Question' Kimberly King Parsons discusses her debut novel, ‘We Were the Universe' (out now in hardcover from Knopf and available in paperback from Vintage Books this June, 2025).

In this mini episode of ‘The Write Question,' host Lauren Korn speaks with Linda Holmes, one of the hosts of NPR's ‘Pop Culture Happy Hour' podcast and the author of ‘Back After This' (Ballantine Books).

This week on ‘The Write Question,' host Lauren Korn speaks with writer and translator Laura Marris, author of ‘The Age of Loneliness' (Graywolf Press).

This week on ‘The Write Question,' host Lauren Korn speaks with Dr. Tao Leigh Goffe, author of ‘Dark Laboratory: On Columbus, the Caribbean, and the Origins of the Climate Crisis' (Doubleday).

Novelist and journalist (and gossip queen!) Kelsey McKinney, former host of the wildly popular podcast ‘Normal Gossip,' discusses her first book of non-fiction, ‘You Didn't Hear This From Me: (Mostly) True Notes on Gossip.'

This week on ‘The Write Question,' Sarah Capdeville discusses her debut essay collection, ‘Aligning the Glacier's Ghost: Essays on Solitude and Landscape' (University of Mexico Press).

In celebration of Black History Month and in honor of Martin Luther King, Jr., Jericho Brown, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of ‘The Tradition' (Copper Canyon Press, 2019), will be a guest of the President's Lecture Series at the University of Montana on February 6, 2025.

In advance of a February 2, 2025, event at St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Hamilton, Montana—hosted by Chapter One Bookstore—Lauren Korn returns to her conversation with memoirist Stephanie Land, author of ‘Class: A Memoir of Motherhood, Hunger, and Higher Education' (Atria/One Signal Publishers).

This week on ‘The Write Question,' host Lauren Korn speaks with Callan Wink, author of ‘Beartooth' (Spiegel & Grau).

This week on ‘The Write Question' host Lauren Korn speaks with Lauren Camp, current Poet Laureate of New Mexico and author of ‘In Old Sky: Poems Inspired by the Grand Canyon' (Grand Canyon Observatory).

This week on ‘The Write Question,' the second and final part of a two-part conversation with world-renowned wildlife biologist Diane K. Boyd, author of ‘A Woman Among Wolves: My Journey Through Forty Years of Wolf Recovery' (Greystone Books).

This week on ‘The Write Question,' the first part of a two-part conversation with world-renowned wildlife biologist Diane K. Boyd, author of ‘A Woman Among Wolves: My Journey Through Forty Years of Wolf Recovery' (Greystone Books).

This week on ‘The Write Question' host Lauren Korn is in conversation with novelist Julia Phillips, author of ‘Bear' (Hogarth Press), her second novel centering sisterhood—this time on an island off the coast of Washington.

This week on ‘The Write Question,' just in time for the holidays, we return to “piecast” host Lauren Korn's 2023 conversation with “pie lady” Kate Lebo, author of the revised and updated cookbook ‘Pie School: Lessons in Fruit, Flour & Butter' (Sasquatch 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 week on ‘The Write Question,' Haudenosaunee poet Kenzie Allen discusses her collection ‘Cloud Missives' (Tin House Books).

Host Lauren Korn speaks with ‘Life Kit' creator Meghan Keane, author of ‘Party of One: Be Your Own Best Life Partner' (Chronicle Books).

For the Sunday morning encore of ‘The Write Question,' we return to a conversation with Alicia Elliott, an established writer of non-fiction and author of the novel ‘And Then She Fell' (Dutton Books, 2023).

Host Lauren Korn speaks with Andrew Limbong about NPR's 2024 interactive book list of staff favorites, “Books We Love.”

This week on ‘The Write Question,' an encore broadcast of a conversation with poet Emily Riddle, author of ‘The Big Melt' (Nightwood Editions), a debut collection rooted in Nehiyaw (Cree) thought and urban millennial life events.

This week on ‘The Write Question,' the second part of a two-part conversation with Chris La Tray, Métis storyteller and Montana Poet Laureate (2023-2025), author of ‘Becoming Little Shell: A Landless Indian's Journey Home' (Milkweed Editions).

This week on ‘The Write Question,' in the first part of a two-part conversation, Chris La Tray, Métis storyteller and Montana Poet Laureate (2023-2025), discusses his memoir, ‘Becoming Little Shell: A Landless Indian's Journey Home' (Milkweed Editions).

For this web exclusive episode of ‘The Write Question,' host Lauren Korn speaks with poet Carl Phillips, author of ‘Scattered Snows, to the North,' and the Pulitzer Prize-winning ‘Then the War and Selected Poems, 2007-2020' (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), in advance of his appearance at the Missoula Art Museum on November 6, 2024.

This week on ‘The Write Question,' host Lauren Korn speaks with Sarah Gerard about ‘Carrie Carolyn Coco: My Friend, Her Murder, and an Obsession with the Unthinkable' (Zando Projects).

This week on ‘The Write Question,' host Lauren Korn joins ‘A New Angle' host Justin Angle and ‘Grounding' host Sarah Aronson in Studio A for a live pledge week episode that centers climate: anxiety, ethics, and care.

This week on ‘The Write Question,' conservation journalist Ben Goldfarb discusses ‘Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet' (W. W. Norton & Company).

This week on ‘The Write Question,' host Lauren Korn speaks with novelist Emily St. John Mandel about ‘Station Eleven' (Vintage Books; Penguin Random House), now in its tenth year of publication.

This week on ‘The Write Question,' host Lauren Korn speaks with poet Jory Mickelson about ‘All This Divide' (Spuyten Duyvil Publishing).

In advance of his appearances in Montana, poet, essayist, and cultural critic Hanif Abdurraqib speaks with host Lauren Korn about ‘There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension' (Penguin Random House).

For NPR's “Climate Solutions Week,” in 2024 leaning into food systems, ‘The Write Question' team is encoring host Lauren Korn's conversation with professor of food and farming Liz Carlisle, author of ‘Healing Grounds: Climate, Justice, and the Deep Roots of Regenerative Farming' (Island Press).

For this mini episode of ‘The Write Question,' host Lauren Korn speaks with Bill McKibben, author of ‘The End of Nature' (Penguin Random House; first published in 1989 and called the first book on global warming written for a general audience) and founder of 350.org; in 2020, Bill founded Third Act, a new political movement of retirees (60+ years) committed to the environment.

In this sneak peek of season eighteen of ‘The Write Question,' you'll hear memoirist Sarah Capdeville speaking about her debut memoir, ‘Aligning the Glacier's Ghost: Essays on Solitude and Landscape' (University of New Mexico Press).

For this mini episode, host Lauren Korn gives listeners a look into the eighteenth season of ‘The Write Question,' coming this fall. In this sneak peak, you'll hear Irish author Kevin Barry talking about ‘The Heart in Winter' (Doubleday Books; Penguin Random House).

This week, MTPR is encoring host Lauren Korn's conversation with podcasters and authors Nick Mott and Justin Angle; the three talk about the nuances of wildfire: ‘This is Wildfire: How to Protect Yourself, Your Home, and Your Community in the Age of Heat' (Bloomsbury Publishing) “offers everything you need to know about fire in one useful volume.”

This week on ‘The Write Question,' host Lauren Korn speaks to Dr. Alan Townsend, author of ‘This Ordinary Stardust: A Scientist's Path from Grief to Wonder' (Grand Central Publishing, Hachette Book Group).

This week on ‘The Write Question,' host Lauren Korn speaks with historian and author Betsy Gaines Quammen about ‘True West: Myth and Mending on the Far Side of America' (Torrey House Press).

For this mini episode of ‘The Write Question,' host Lauren Korn speaks with NPR's Rachel Martin about her new podcast, ‘Wild Card'—part-interview, part-existential game show.

This week on ‘The Write Question,' host Lauren Korn speaks with poet Victoria Chang, author of ‘With My Back to the World' (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), a collection that engages with the paintings and writings of celebrated abstract artist Agnes Martin.

This week on ‘The Write Question,' we're celebrating 50 years of children's programming on Montana Public Radio. During this episode, host Lauren Korn speaks with critic, biographer, and historian Leonard S. Marcus, one of the world's leading writers and scholars on children's books and the people who create them.

On this mini episode of ‘The Write Question,' host Lauren Korn speaks with Jacqueline Winspear, author of twenty novels, eighteen of which comprise the Maisie Dobbs series. The last installment in that series, ‘The Comfort of Ghosts,' will be published June 4, 2024. Jacqueline is appearing in Helena, Montana, on Monday, May 13, 2024, at the Helena Civic Center as a guest of the Lewis & Clark Library and the Lewis & Clark Library Foundation.

This week on ‘The Write Question,' host Lauren Korn speaks with author and environmental activist Rick Bass, author of ‘With Every Great Breath' (Counterpoint Press), a collection of new and selected essays spanning nearly thirty years: from 1995-2023.