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The Write Question The Write Question is a weekly literary program hosted by Lauren Korn that features authors from the American West—and beyond—including James Lee Burke, Kate Lebo, Anne Helen Petersen, Robert Wrigley, Jess Walter, Stephen Graham Jones, Barry Lopez, Hoa Nguyen, Maggie Shipstead, Elissa Washuta, and others.
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The Write Question

The Write Question

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The Write Question is a weekly literary program hosted by Lauren Korn that features authors from the American West—and beyond—including James Lee Burke, Kate Lebo, Anne Helen Petersen, Robert Wrigley, Jess Walter, Stephen Graham Jones, Barry Lopez, Hoa Nguyen, Maggie Shipstead, Elissa Washuta, and others.

Most Recent Episodes

"Who are you to see yourself reflected in a mountain range?": Amy Gamerman's 'The Crazies'...

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.

"Who are you to see yourself reflected in a mountain range?": Amy Gamerman's 'The Crazies'...

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Encore: Jory Mickelson interrogates and writes into Western histories and landscapes in 'A...

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.

Encore: Jory Mickelson interrogates and writes into Western histories and landscapes in 'A...

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"Drylandia!": 'The Antidote' digs into the Dust Bowl with characteristic Karen Russell cha...

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.

"Drylandia!": 'The Antidote' digs into the Dust Bowl with characteristic Karen Russell cha...

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"I'm always looking for the weird thing, the tilted thing": 'We Were the Universe' with Ki...

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).

"I'm always looking for the weird thing, the tilted thing": 'We Were the Universe' with Ki...

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Romancing the sound: NPR's Linda Holmes writes about love and podcasting in 'Back After This'

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).

Romancing the sound: NPR's Linda Holmes writes about love and podcasting in 'Back After This'

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The Eremocene; or, 'The Age of Loneliness': Laura Marris on absence and archive

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

The Eremocene; or, 'The Age of Loneliness': Laura Marris on absence and archive

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The colonial legacy of the climate crisis and living beyond the apocalypse in Tao Leigh Go...

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).

The colonial legacy of the climate crisis and living beyond the apocalypse in Tao Leigh Go...

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Former 'Normal Gossip' host Kelsey McKinney continues to spread the gospel of gossip in 'Y...

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.'

Former 'Normal Gossip' host Kelsey McKinney continues to spread the gospel of gossip in 'Y...

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Changing landscapes, changing narratives: Sarah Capdeville on her debut, 'Aligning the Gla...

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).

Changing landscapes, changing narratives: Sarah Capdeville on her debut, 'Aligning the Gla...

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Falling in love with Jericho Brown: Discussing vulnerability and poetry in advance of his ...

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.

Falling in love with Jericho Brown: Discussing vulnerability and poetry in advance of his ...

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