The Write Question

Series produced by KUFM - Montana Public Radio

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A weekly literary program that features writers from the American West and beyond. The Write Question is hosted and produced by former Montana Book Festival Director Lauren Korn and co-produced first by Peter Hoag and currently by Chris Moyles and Jake Birch. TWQ is distributed through PRX to public and community radio stations, as well as to listeners around the world.

Guests on The Write Question include authors writing from or about the western United States—or about subjects outside the American West that are applicable to the region. The series also features bestselling and emerging writers, visiting writers, illustrators, photographers, publishers, and other artists.


514 Pieces

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With the stories in her latest collection, Ghosts of Wyoming, Alyson Hagy illuminates the complex issues of life in the West with characters so rea...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 01, 2010
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Out in southeast Montana, near the small town of Ekalaka, is where Mary Zeiss Stange and her husband, Doug, own and run the Crazy Woman Bison Ranch...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 23, 2010
  • Length: 29:04
  • Purchases: 1
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With his latest book - Savages & Scoundrels: The Untold Story of America's Road to Empire Through Indian Territory - Paul VanDevelder re-writes muc...

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  • Added: Nov 09, 2010
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Writer and buffalo rancher Dan O'Brien talks about his new novel, STOLEN HORSES. In addition to being entertaining and relevant, the book draws par...

Bought by KFOK-LPFM and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 08, 2010
  • Length: 29:04
  • Purchases: 2
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Thomas McGuane talks with Chérie Newman about his new novel, Driving on the Rim. Also about working in the film industry as a screenplay writer, wh...

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  • Added: Nov 03, 2010
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 1
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Decades after graduating from a Catholic college, Virginia Tranel found out that one of her classmates, Benita Kane, had been in a 20-year relation...

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  • Added: Oct 12, 2010
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 1
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In VISIONS OF THE BIG SKY, Dan Flores revisits the Northern Rockies artistic tradition to explore its diversity and richness. In his essays about t...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio, KSJD, Yellowstone Public Radio, WRPI, and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 27, 2010
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 5
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In VISIONS OF THE BIG SKY, Dan Flores revisits the Northern Rockies artistic tradition to explore its diversity and richness. In his essays about t...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio, KSJD, Yellowstone Public Radio, WRPI, and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 27, 2010
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 5
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Sneed B. Collard III has captured one of the West's premier rodeo events, the Miles City Bucking Horse Sale, with photographs and stories in his ne...

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  • Added: Sep 16, 2010
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Sandra Alcosser, Montana's first Poet Laureate, and TWQ producer, Chérie Newman, talk about a recently published collection titled, NEW POETS OF TH...

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  • Added: Sep 10, 2010
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Keir Graff has written four political crime novels. THE PRICE OF LIBERTY, set in the town of Red Rock Wyoming, is his latest. During this program ...

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  • Added: Sep 07, 2010
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 1
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During this program, the Smith brothers and Ken White talk with TWQ producer Chérie Newman about their screenplay adaptation of James Welch's novel...

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  • Added: Aug 23, 2010
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 1
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The U.S. Forest Service was just about to get the Congressional ax when a monster fire saved it. During this program, Pulitzer-Prize-winning journa...

Bought by WRPI and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 18, 2010
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 2
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During this program, Craig Johnson talks about JUNKYARD DOGS, the sixth book in his Walt Longmire mystery series. He also reads a few pages and tel...

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  • Added: Aug 16, 2010
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 1
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Keetje Kuipers has a unique way of creating poetry: she walks and puts words to the rhythms of her strides. Once in a while, if a poem gets too lon...

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  • Added: Aug 10, 2010
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 1
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James Lee Burke's eagerly awaited new novel find Detective Dave Robicheaux back in New Iberia, Louisiana, and embroiled in the most harrowing and d...

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  • Added: Jul 30, 2010
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Journalist Carol Bradley has written about many aspects of animal welfare, including horse slaughtering, rodeos, animal hoarding, and animal cruelt...

Bought by 'The Sea' and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Jul 22, 2010
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
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At the age of 90, Richard Moore has published a book that includes a selection of his poems written between 1946 and 2008. During this program he r...

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  • Added: Jul 16, 2010
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
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THE RENEGADE SPORTSMAN is one of those books with a beefy sub-title: "Drunken Runners, Bike Polo Superstars, Roller Derby Rebels, Killer Birds, and...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Jul 09, 2010
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Ednor Therriault is the author of MONTANA CURIOSITIES, a book that invites you to laugh your way through Big Sky Country. During this program, Ther...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Jul 01, 2010
  • Length: 29:04
  • Purchases: 1