Best Capdeville Podcasts (2025)

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Kevin Barry on his novel, ‘The Heart in Winter,’ “a western with County Cork accents” 28:54

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This week on ‘The Write Question,’ host Lauren Korn speaks with Irish author Kevin Barry, author of ‘The Heart in Winter’ (Doubleday Books; Penguin Random House) and the featured speaker at the inaugural Festival of Irish Writing in Butte, Montana: October 3-4, 2025.By Lauren Korn

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Encore: Laura Marris on absence and archive 29:00

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This week on ‘The Write Question,’ host Lauren Korn returns to her conversation with writer and translator Laura Marris, author of ‘The Age of Loneliness’ (Graywolf Press). This episode originally aired February 27, 2025.By Lauren Korn

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Encore: Keetje Kuipers on her poetics of humility, the danger in love poems about marriage, and bumping around in the dark 29:00

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This week on ‘The Write Question,’ host Lauren Korn returns to her conversation with poet Keetje Kuipers, author of ‘Lonely Women Make Good Lovers’ (BOA Editions). This conversation originally aired on May 1, 2025.By Lauren Korn

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Encore: Wildlife biologist Diane K. Boyd is ‘A Woman Among Wolves’ (Part Two) 29:00

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This week on ‘The Write Question,’ host Lauren Korn returns to 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 conversation originally aired January 9, 2025.…

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Encore: Wildlife biologist Diane K. Boyd is ‘A Woman Among Wolves’ (Part One) 29:00

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This week on ‘The Write Question,’ host Lauren Korn returns to 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 episode originally aired January 2, 2025.…

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Encore: Amy Gamerman’s ‘The Crazies’ (Part Two) 29:00

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This week on ‘The Write Question,’ host Lauren Korn returns to her conversation 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 and originally aired April 3, 2025.By Lauren Korn

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Encore: Amy Gamerman’s ‘The Crazies’ (Part One) 29:00

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This week on ‘The Write Question,’ host Lauren Korn returns to her conversation 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 and originally aired March 27, 2025.By Lauren Korn

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Encore: Ben Goldfarb’s interspecies imagination in ‘Crossings’ 29:00

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This week on ‘The Write Question,’ host Lauren Korn returns to her conversation with conservation journalist Ben Goldfarb, author of ‘Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet’ (W. W. Norton & Company).By Lauren Korn

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Encore: Hanif Abdurraqib’s urgent meditations on time, success, and witness in ‘There’s Always This Year’ 29:00

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Host Lauren Korn returns to her conversation with poet, essayist, and cultural critic Hanif Abdurraqib, author of ‘There’s Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension’ (Penguin Random House).By Lauren Korn

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Encore: Sarah Capdeville on her debut, ‘Aligning the Glacier’s Ghost: Essays on Solitude and Landscape’ 29:00

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This week on ‘The Write Question,’ host Lauren Korn returns to her conversation with Sarah Capdeville, author of ‘Aligning the Glacier’s Ghost: Essays on Solitude and Landscape’ (University of Mexico Press). This conversation originally aired February 6, 2025.By Lauren Korn

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Encore: Julia Phillips discusses womanhood, trust, and miraculous animals in her sophomore novel, ‘Bear’ 29:00

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This week on ‘The Write Question,’ host Lauren Korn returns to her 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 episode originally aired December 26, 2024.By Lauren Korn

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Encore: Chris La Tray on ‘Becoming Little Shell’ (Part Two) 29:00

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This week on ‘The Write Question,’ host Lauren Korn returns to the second part of her 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).By Lauren Korn

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Encore: Chris La Tray on ‘Becoming Little Shell’ (Part One) 29:00

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This week on ‘The Write Question,’ host Lauren Korn returns to the first part of a two-part conversation with Chris La Tray, Métis storyteller and Montana Poet Laureate (2023-2025). The two discuss his memoir, ‘Becoming Little Shell: A Landless Indian’s Journey Home’ (Milkweed Editions). This episode originally aired November 7, 2024, under the tit…

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Daniel Tam-Claiborne, author of ‘Transplants,’ finds comfort in advocacy and community 29:00

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This week on ‘The Write Question,’ host Lauren Korn speaks with Daniel Tam-Claiborne, author of ‘Transplants’ (Regalo Press).By Lauren Korn

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Encore: ‘We Were the Universe’ with Kimberly King Parsons 28:58

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This week on ‘The Write Question’ host Lauren Korn returns to her conversation with Kimberly King Parsons, who discusses her debut novel, ‘We Were the Universe’ (out in paperback on June 24, 2025, from Vintage Books). This conversation originally aired March 6, 2025, under the title “I’m always looking for the weird thing, the tilted thing.”…

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“Have you eaten, yet?”: Christine Wu on a shared language of food and her debut collection, ‘Familial Hungers’ 29:00

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This week on ‘The Write Question,’ host Lauren Korn speaks with poet Christine Wu, author of ‘Familial Hungers’ (Brick Books).By Lauren Korn

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On devotion and chosen lineages: Melissa Febos, author of ‘The Dry Season,’ discusses her year of pleasure and celibacy (Part Two) 29:00

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This week on ‘The Write Question,’ the second half of a conversation with memoirist Melissa Febos, author of ‘The Dry Season: A Memoir of Pleasure in a Year Without Sex,’ out now from Knopf, an imprint of the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, which is a division of Penguin Random House.By Lauren Korn

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On sex and seeing: Melissa Febos, author of ‘The Dry Season,’ discusses her year of pleasure and celibacy (Part One) 29:00

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This week on ‘The Write Question,’ part one of a two-part conversation with memoirist Melissa Febos, author of ‘The Dry Season: A Memoir of Pleasure in a Year Without Sex,’ out now from Knopf, an imprint of the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, which is a division of Penguin Random House.By Lauren Korn

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Encore: Callan Wink’s ‘Beartooth’ is a novel of grief, family, and the wild 29:00

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This week on ‘The Write Question,’ host Lauren Korn returns to her conversation with Callan Wink, author of ‘Beartooth’ (Spiegel & Grau). This conversation originally aired January 23, 2025, under the title “There’s no end, really, or beginning to anything.”By Lauren Korn

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‘Depth Control’: Lauren Westerfield plays dress-up, tries on different selves and genres in debut collection 29:00

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This week on ‘The Write Question,’ host Lauren Korn speaks with Lauren Westerfield, author of ‘Depth Control: Essays and Autofictions’ (Unsolicited Press).By Lauren Korn

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“Farmers and ranchers are among the greatest groups of innovators in the world”: Mark Easter serves up ‘The Blue Plate’ 29:00

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This week on ‘The Write Question,’ host Lauren Korn speaks with ecologist Mark Easter, author of ‘The Blue Plate: A Food Lover’s Guide to Climate Chaos’ (Patagonia Books).By Lauren Korn

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The impossible questions and hard truths of farming in Nathaniel Ian Miller’s ‘Red Dog Farm’ 29:00

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This week on ‘The Write Question,’ host Lauren Korn speaks with novelist Nathaniel Ian Miller, author of ‘Red Dog Farm’ (Little, Brown & Company).By Lauren Korn

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‘Lonely Women Make Good Lovers’: Keetje Kuipers on her poetics of humility, the danger in love poems about marriage, and bumping around in the dark 29:00

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This week on ‘The Write Question,’ host Lauren Korn speaks with poet Keetje Kuipers, author of ‘Lonely Women Make Good Lovers’ (BOA Editions).By Lauren Korn

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‘The Write Angle’: Lauren joins Justin Angle in a conversation with Cassidy Randall, author of ‘Thirty Below’ 59:58

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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).By Lauren Korn

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Encore: “My imagination is rooted in place; it doesn’t exist in the ether”: Joe Wilkins on writing ‘The Entire Sky’ 29:00

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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.By Lauren Korn

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TWQ Mini: Mary Louise Kelly on time, tantrums, and supporting Montana Public Radio 14:30

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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).By Lauren Korn

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“We are living in a new era of enormous wealth”: Amy Gamerman’s ‘The Crazies’ (Part Two) 29:00

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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.By Lauren Korn

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“Who are you to see yourself reflected in a mountain range?”: Amy Gamerman’s ‘The Crazies’ (Part One) 29:00

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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.By Lauren Korn

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Encore: Jory Mickelson interrogates and writes into Western histories and landscapes in ‘All This Divide’ 29:00

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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.By Lauren Korn

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“Drylandia!”: ‘The Antidote’ digs into the Dust Bowl with characteristic Karen Russell charm and magic in the author’s sophomore novel 29:00

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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.By Lauren Korn

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“I’m always looking for the weird thing, the tilted thing”: ‘We Were the Universe’ with Kimberly King Parsons 28:58

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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).By Lauren Korn

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Romancing the sound: NPR’s Linda Holmes writes about love and podcasting in ‘Back After This’ 12:54

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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).By Lauren Korn

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The Eremocene; or, ‘The Age of Loneliness’: Laura Marris on absence and archive 29:00

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

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The colonial legacy of the climate crisis and living beyond the apocalypse in Tao Leigh Goffe’s ‘Dark Laboratory’ 29:00

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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).By Lauren Korn

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Former ‘Normal Gossip’ host Kelsey McKinney continues to spread the gospel of gossip in ‘You Didn’t Hear This From Me’ 29:00

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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.’By Lauren Korn

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Changing landscapes, changing narratives: Sarah Capdeville on her debut, ‘Aligning the Glacier’s Ghost: Essays on Solitude and Landscape’ 29:00

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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).By Lauren Korn

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Falling in love with Jericho Brown: Discussing vulnerability and poetry in advance of his appearance in Missoula for Black History Month 29:00

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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.By Lauren Korn

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TWQ Mini: Returning to ‘Class’ by Stephanie Land, in anticipation of event with Chapter One Bookstore 15:36

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In advance of a February 23, 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).By Lauren Korn

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“There’s no end, really, or beginning to anything”: Callan Wink’s ‘Beartooth’ is a novel of grief, family, and the wild 29:00

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

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‘In Old Sky’: New Mexico Poet Laureate Lauren Camp is making a case for darkness 29:00

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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).By Lauren Korn

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“The last one standing”: Wildlife biologist Diane K. Boyd is ‘A Woman Among Wolves’ (Part Two) 29:00

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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).By Lauren Korn

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Lone wolf: Wildlife biologist Diane K. Boyd is ‘A Woman Among Wolves’ (Part One) 29:00

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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).By Lauren Korn

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“Woman versus bear”: Julia Phillips discusses womanhood, trust, and miraculous animals in her sophomore novel, ‘Bear’ 29:00

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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.By Lauren Korn

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Encore: Kate Lebo’s ‘Pie School’ reunion: Washington’s favorite pie lady revises and expands her 2014 cookbook 29:00

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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).By Lauren Korn

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“My imagination is rooted in place; it doesn’t exist in the ether”: Joe Wilkins on writing ‘The Entire Sky’ 29:00

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This week on ‘The Write Question,’ host Lauren Korn speaks with Oregon-based writer Joe Wilkins, author of ‘The Entire Sky’ (Little, Brown & Company).By Lauren Korn

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‘Cloud Missives’: Manifesting and excavating the self with Haudenosaunee poet Kenzie Allen 29:00

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This week on ‘The Write Question,’ Haudenosaunee poet Kenzie Allen discusses her collection ‘Cloud Missives’ (Tin House Books).By Lauren Korn

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TWQ Mini: Meghan Keane is a ‘Party of One,’ her own best life partner 12:16

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

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Encore: ‘And Then She Fell’: Alicia Elliott on motherhood, horror, and storytelling 29:02

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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).By Lauren Korn

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TWQ Mini: NPR’s Andrew Limbong discusses 2024’s reading trends and ‘Books We Love’ 11:12

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

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Encore: On ancestors and exes: Plains Cree poet Emily Riddle explores kinship, the colonial project of Canada, and climate change in ‘The Big Melt’ 29:00

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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.By Lauren Korn