The Write Question

292 - Maxim Loskutoff: “What Montana represents to me is an entire species-wide need to re-evaluate our relationship with the natural world”

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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, Hoa Nguyen, Maggie Shipstead, Elissa Washuta, and others.

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292 - Maxim Loskutoff: “What Montana represents to me is an entire species-wide need to re-evaluate our relationship with the natural world”

Thu, 06 Jun 2024
291 - “The truth of the West is a constellation”: Betsy Gaines Quammen discusses ‘Myth and Mending on the Far Side of America’

Thu, 30 May 2024
290 - TWQ Mini: NPR’s Rachel Martin attempts to “hold the light” and “lean into weird” in new podcast, ‘Wild Card’

Sun, 26 May 2024
289 - “Grief was a safe space for me”: Victoria Chang on engaging with the work of abstract artist Agnes Martin

Thu, 23 May 2024
288 - The possibility of a door left open: Leonard S. Marcus helps celebrate 50 years of children’s programming on MTPR

Thu, 16 May 2024
287 - TWQ Mini: Jacqueline Winspear’s Maisie Dobbs series is coming to a close; the author is coming to the Helena Civic Center

Sat, 11 May 2024
286 - ‘With Every Great Breath’: Rick Bass on beauty, writing beyond his “cone of light,” and interrogating metaphor

Thu, 09 May 2024
285 - “What lifts your heart?”: Melissa Kwasny on “the big loss” and taking ‘The Cloud Path’ to healing

Thu, 25 Apr 2024
284 - TWQ Mini: The Moth Radio Hour’s Chloe Salmon on translating stage performances to the page and on the importance of storytelling, public radio

Sun, 21 Apr 2024
283 - TWQ Mini: Toni Jensen, UM’s James and Lois Welch Distinguished Visiting Native American Writer, to read at Missoula Art Museum

Fri, 12 Apr 2024
282 - Learning to reconnect with banished softness: Tessa Hulls on feeding “the ghosts that stand between mothers and daughters”

Thu, 11 Apr 2024
281 - Carmen Maria Machado on form & genre, fairy tales & urban legends, lineage & representation

Thu, 04 Apr 2024
280 - “It’s hard to make human beings believe in things”: Marie-Helene Bertino on belief, education, and the creative process in ‘Beautyland’

Thu, 28 Mar 2024
279 - TWQ Mini: Min Jin Lee on late-blooming, spending money, creating communities of care, and more!

Sat, 16 Mar 2024
278 - Peddling bright colors: Michael Finkel investigates ‘A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession’ in ‘The Art Thief’

Thu, 14 Mar 2024
277 - The gold in them thar hills is a hush: Arnold “Smoke” Elser and Eva-Maria Maggi discuss Smoke’s ‘Lifetime in the Bob Marshall Wilderness’

Thu, 29 Feb 2024
276 - TWQ Outtake: What did Smoke Elser teach Eva-Maria Maggi? “It’s the hush of the land, really”

Thu, 29 Feb 2024
275 - Elise Atchison’s ‘Crazy Mountain’ explores community and commodity in a rapidly changing West

Thu, 15 Feb 2024
274 - Kathleen McLaughlin’s ‘Blood Money: The Story of Life, Death, and Profit Inside America’s Blood Industry’

Thu, 08 Feb 2024
273 - Poetry and property taxes, part 2: Josh Slotnick on growth in the West, resiliency, and the “Shakespearean Threshold”

Thu, 25 Jan 2024
272 - Poetry and property taxes, part 1: Josh Slotnick on audience and the complexities of writing and “commissioner-ing”

Thu, 18 Jan 2024
271 - Former TWQ host pens memoir about critters, careers, and capitalism in Yellowstone Country

Thu, 11 Jan 2024
270 - “I want to listen to other people’s lifetimes; I want to listen to history”: Alexandra Teague’s ‘Spinning Tea Cups’ explores family, reality, and time

Thu, 28 Dec 2023
269 - On ancestors and exes: Plains Cree poet Emily Riddle explores kinship, the colonial project of Canada, and climate change in ‘The Big Melt’

Thu, 21 Dec 2023
268 - Sindya Bhanoo explores the dislocation, dissonance, and loneliness of South Indian immigrants in ‘Seeking Fortune Elsewhere’

Thu, 16 Nov 2023
267 - Kate Lebo’s ‘Pie School’ reunion: Washington’s favorite pie lady revises and expands her 2014 cookbook

Thu, 14 Dec 2023
266 - In ‘This Country,’ cartoonist Navied Mahdavian wonders, “Do I belong here? Is this where I want to be?”

Thu, 07 Dec 2023
265 - TWQ Mini: “The Brené Brown of the environmental movement,” Heather White, will be at the Bozeman Public Library tonight!

Wed, 06 Dec 2023
264 - D.M. Bradford’s ‘Bottom Rail on Top’ is a prismatic, paratextual intervention on Black history in America

Thu, 30 Nov 2023
263 - TWQ Mini: Andrew Limbong discusses NPR’s “thoughtfully curated” year-end list, Books We Love

Sun, 26 Nov 2023
262 - ‘Class’: Follow-up to Stephanie Land’s bestselling memoir chronicles her “hungriest year”

Thu, 09 Nov 2023
261 - TWQ Mini: Making sense of our lives, considering the nature of loss, and contemplating the “second arrow” with Shankar Vedantam

Sun, 05 Nov 2023
260 - The primal, lyric imaginings in Maya Jewell Zeller’s ‘out takes/ glove box’

Thu, 02 Nov 2023
259 - Live! Pledge week episode: Charlotte Macorn, mercurial icon and the voice of your generation

Thu, 26 Oct 2023
258 - ‘Iggy Horse’: Michael Earl Craig on “castle energy,” genre, and the wind

Thu, 19 Oct 2023
257 - TWQ Outtake: Michael Earl Craig reads “The Salesman Had Two Bags” from ‘Iggy Horse’

Thu, 19 Oct 2023
256 - TWQ Outtake: Michael Earl Craig reads “Preparing to Paint the Body of the Dead Christ in the Tomb” from ‘Iggy Horse’’

Thu, 19 Oct 2023
255 - ‘Unexpected Weather Events’: Erin Pringle on grief, memory, and the short story

Thu, 12 Oct 2023
254 - “I care for your beauty”: Reflecting on ten years of ‘Braiding Sweetgrass’ with Robin Wall Kimmerer

Thu, 05 Oct 2023
253 - ‘And Then She Fell’: Alicia Elliott on motherhood, horror, and storytelling

Thu, 28 Sep 2023
252 - ‘Tolstoy Killed Anna Karenina’: Dara Barrois/Dixon on the responsibilities and consequences of art-making

Thu, 14 Sep 2023
251 - Christine Byl’s debut novel ‘Lookout’ centers community, resists western stereotypes

Thu, 07 Sep 2023
250 - ‘This is Wildfire’: Nick Mott and Justin Angle follow award-winning podcast with “first of its kind” guide

Thu, 31 Aug 2023
249 - Encore: The many layers of Charmaine Wilkerson’s ‘Black Cake’

Thu, 24 Aug 2023
248 - Encore: Romantic pragmatism, pragmatic romanticism: Claire Boyles’ ‘Site Fidelity’

Thu, 10 Aug 2023
247 - Encore: Walking through ‘Nemerov’s Door’ with Robert Wrigley

Thu, 03 Aug 2023
246 - Encore: Splitting open the sky with Jenny Tinghui Zhang

Thu, 27 Jul 2023
245 - Encore: Making shapes from silence: Kaveh Akbar’s ‘Pilgrim Bell’

Thu, 20 Jul 2023
233 - TWQ encores conversation with Bryce Andrews in anticipation of event at Ravalli County Museum, paperback release of ‘Holding Fire’

Tue, 20 Feb 2024
229 - Encore: ‘I’ve Had to Think Up a Way to Survive’: Lynn Melnick’s very own “sad banger”

Thu, 06 Jul 2023