The Write Question

Lauren Korn

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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The art of the eruption: John Elizabeth Stintzi’s ‘My Volcano’

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03/25/22 • 29 min

This week on ‘The Write Question,’ Lauren speaks with poet and novelist John Elizabeth Stintzi, JES, about ‘My Volcano’ (Two Dollar Radio; Arsenal Pulp Press), a meticulously-crafted tapestry of a novel—one in which a volcano emerges from the Central Park Reservoir in New York.

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Watching Our Mouths: ‘sulphurtongue’ With Rebecca Salazar

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05/21/21 • 28 min

This week on The Write Question, Lauren speaks with Canadian poet, editor, and community organizer Rebecca Salazar, author of sulphurtongue. The two tackle a number of questions: How is synesthesia an organizing principle of poetry? How can poets care for themselves in public spaces? What’s so funny about survival? What Canadian city closely resembles a moonscape? And just what is it about mouths?

“In the mountains, the world begins again and again”: ‘Pity the Beast’ with Robin McLean

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12/03/21 • 29 min

This week Lauren chats with fiction writer Robin McLean, author of Pity the Beast, a contemporary, eco-feminist Western in which a woman escapes to the northern Rocky Mountains after a violent encounter with a number of people close to her, including her husband and her half-sister. With leanings into and outside of the contemporary American West, into and outside of morality and goodness, this novel is a deep dive into myth, landscape, and freedom.

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Ghost-sick: Danielle Geller resurrects her fractured past in ‘Dog Flowers’

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01/21/22 • 29 min

This week, Lauren speaks with memoirist Danielle Geller, whose memoir, ‘Dog Flowers,’ is a book not only about her relationship to her late mother, absent for so much of her childhood, but about the strength and complexity of familial ties.

‘AMANDA PARADISE’: Doing the hard work with CAConrad

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01/27/22 • 29 min

What do you get when you flood your body with the field recordings of recently extinct animals? This week during The Write Question, CAConrad, author of ‘AMANDA PARADISE: Resurrect Extinct Vibration,’ talks with Lauren about their writing processes: the (soma)tic poetry rituals that result in poetry that shimmers, surprises, and sears.

‘Defenestrate’: Falling for novelist Renée Branum

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02/04/22 • 29 min

This week Lauren chats with Renée Branum, author of ‘Defenestrate,’ a story of familial alienation and grief, of one family’s long-told lore and tightly-guarded love—told in a series of vignettes, or short chapters. Through the eyes of Marta, and twin brother Nick, ‘Defenestrate’ is the fragmented history of a family’s falling curse.

‘Class’: Follow-up to Stephanie Land’s bestselling memoir chronicles her “hungriest year”

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11/10/23 • 29 min

This week on ‘The Write Question,’ host Lauren Korn speaks with Stephanie Land, author of ‘Class: A Memoir of Motherhood, Hunger, and Higher Education’ (Atria/One Signal Publishers).

‘The Everybody Ensemble’: Amy Leach’s subterranean obsessions

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12/16/21 • 29 min

This week on The Write Question, Lauren talks with Bozeman, Montana-based essayist Amy Leach about her modern bestiary, The Everybody Ensemble, in which she brings together a cacophony of voices—of the many, many animals that populate our world.

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

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04/12/24 • 7 min

In this mini episode of ‘The Write Question,’ host Lauren Korn speaks with Métis author Toni Jensen, author of ‘Carry: A Memoir of Survival on Stolen Land’ (Ballantine Books; Penguin Random House). Toni will be giving a reading in collaboration with the University of Montana’s Creative Writing Program on April 12, 2024, at the Missoula Art Museum.

Mining The Freak: J. Robert Lennon’s ‘Subdivision’ And ‘Let Me Think’

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05/27/21 • 28 min

This week on The Write Question, Lauren chats with J. Robert Lennon about peculiarity—in his new novel, Subdivision, his new collection of short stories, Let Me Think, and in David Lynch’s Twin Peaks—and encouraging student writers to find the peculiarities in their own experiences, to mine their inner freak.

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How many episodes does The Write Question have?

The Write Question currently has 211 episodes available.

What topics does The Write Question cover?

The podcast is about Podcasts, Books and Arts.

What is the most popular episode on The Write Question?

The episode title 'The art of the eruption: John Elizabeth Stintzi’s ‘My Volcano’' is the most popular.

What is the average episode length on The Write Question?

The average episode length on The Write Question is 27 minutes.

How often are episodes of The Write Question released?

Episodes of The Write Question are typically released every 7 days.

When was the first episode of The Write Question?

The first episode of The Write Question was released on Feb 13, 2020.

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