Chris La Tray On ‘Becoming Little Shell’: “If Pride Was The Air I Was Breathing, Grief Was What I Was Exhaling” (Part Two) The Write Question podcast

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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.

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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.

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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.”

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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).

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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).

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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).

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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).

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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).

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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.

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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).

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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.

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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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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.

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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.

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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).

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

15 weeks ago12:54

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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).

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

15 weeks ago29:00

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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).

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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).

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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.’

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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).

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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

19 weeks ago29:00

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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.

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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).

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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

20 weeks ago29:00

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

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

21 weeks ago29:00

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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).

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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).

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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).

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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.

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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).

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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).

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

27 weeks ago29:00

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

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

28 weeks ago12:16

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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).

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

28 weeks ago29:02

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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).

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

28 weeks ago11:12

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

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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.

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Chris La Tray on ‘Becoming Little Shell’: “If pride was the air I was breathing, grief was what I was exhaling” (Part Two) 29:00

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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).

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Chris La Tray on ‘Becoming Little Shell’: “What kind of society do we live in where any Indigenous people can be considered ‘landless’ in the first place?” (Part One) 29:00

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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).

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‘Scattered Snows, to the North’: Retracing steps and self-correcting with Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Carl Phillips 29:19

32 weeks ago29:19

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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.…

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“I wanted to learn her, as if Carolyn were some kind of language”: Sarah Gerard on her friend, her murder, and an obsession with the unthinkable 29:00

32 weeks ago29:00

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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).

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Live! Pledge week episode: Lauren Korn, Justin Angle, and Sarah Aronson discuss climate anxiety, environmental ethics, and care 1:02:08

33 weeks ago1:02:08

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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.

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Ben Goldfarb’s interspecies imagination in ‘Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet’ 29:00

34 weeks ago29:00

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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).

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“What if the world is always ending?”: Celebrating ten years of ‘Station Eleven’ with Emily St. John Mandel 29:00

35 weeks ago29:00

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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.

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

36 weeks ago29:00

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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).

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“It’s now or it might-not-be-ever”: Hanif Abdurraqib’s urgent meditations on time, success, and witness in ‘There’s Always This Year’ 29:00

37 weeks ago29:00

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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).

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A “Climate Solutions Week” encore: Digging into regenerative farming with ‘Healing Grounds’ author Liz Carlisle 29:00

39 weeks ago29:00

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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).

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TWQ Mini: About Third Act, Bill McKibben says, “There’s no known way to stop old people from voting” 10:08

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