372 - Uncanny valley: Kim Fu’s venue of post-COVID horror, ‘The Valley of Vengeful Ghosts’
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.
372 - Uncanny valley: Kim Fu’s venue of post-COVID horror, ‘The Valley of Vengeful Ghosts’
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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.
Episodes
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Uncanny valley: Kim Fu’s venue of post-COVID horror, ‘The Valley of Vengeful Ghosts’
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Thu, 30 Apr 2026
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Sally Thompson’s ‘Black Robes Enter Coyote’s World,’ Part Two: Chief Charlo’s speech
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Thu, 23 Apr 2026
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Sally Thompson’s ‘Black Robes Enter Coyote’s World,’ Part One: Father Pierre-Jean De Smet
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Thu, 16 Apr 2026
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On civics and memory: Jule Banville and Jad Abumrad reimagine the obituary with ‘The Obit Project’ (Extended)
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Thu, 09 Apr 2026
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Nina McConigley’s ‘How to Commit a Postcolonial Murder’: Exploring race and eighties girlhood in the American West
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Thu, 02 Apr 2026
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Live! Pledge week episode: Allison De Jong is the voice behind many of your favorite ‘Field Notes’
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Thu, 26 Mar 2026
366-
Fred Haefele returns to “vehicular memoir” with ‘The Essential Book of Pickup Trucks’
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Thu, 19 Mar 2026
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Growing up with Andrew Martin: In ‘Down Time,’ the author creates avatars of mourning, quest for happiness
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Thu, 12 Mar 2026
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Maya Jewell Zeller publishes unfurling, rhizomatic memoir-in-essays, ‘Raised by Ferns’
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Thu, 05 Mar 2026
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“We’re all susceptible to cult ways of thinking”: Leah Sottile’s ‘Blazing Eye Sees All’ (Part Two)
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Thu, 26 Feb 2026
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“Far left meets far right, finds common cause”: Leah Sottile’s ‘Blazing Eye Sees All’ (Part One)
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Thu, 19 Feb 2026
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On blood and belonging: Morgan Talty’s ‘Fire Exit,’ now available in paperback!
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Thu, 12 Feb 2026
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“One trip was about fleeing; the other about pilgrimage ‘toward the self’”: Joanna Pocock’s ‘Greyhound’
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Thu, 05 Feb 2026
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TWQ Mini: Crystal Koosman becomes an “amateur archivist,” opens Last Best Books
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Sun, 01 Feb 2026
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Acclaimed novelist David Guterson on the “lineages of lamas” (and more) in ‘Evelyn in Transit’
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Thu, 29 Jan 2026
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Cable guy Colum McCann on connectivity, brokenness, and things left unsaid in ‘Twist’
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Thu, 22 Jan 2026
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Tami Haaland investigates ancestry and inheritance in ‘If I Had Said Beauty’
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Thu, 15 Jan 2026
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Beyond words: Brian Buckbee writes, dictates ‘We Should All Be Birds’ (with Carol Ann Fitzgerald)
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Thu, 08 Jan 2026
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Interrogating systems of power with raft guide Bridget Crocker, author of ‘The River’s Daughter’
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Wed, 31 Dec 2025
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Alice Bolin’s ‘Culture Creep,’ a “gut-churning ride” into Millennial girl- and boyhood (Part Two)
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Thu, 18 Dec 2025
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Seductive narratives and Alice Bolin’s ‘Culture Creep: Notes on the Pop Apocalypse’ (Part One)
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Thu, 11 Dec 2025
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TWQ Mini: Juicy stories, beautiful sentences, and NPR’s 2025 ‘Books We Love’
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Sat, 06 Dec 2025
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Where science meets storytelling: Traveling to ‘To the Moon and Back’ with novelist Eliana Ramage
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Thu, 04 Dec 2025
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Encore: Christine Wu on a shared language of food and her debut collection, ‘Familial Hungers’
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Thu, 27 Nov 2025
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“The only way you can know a person’s gender is [to] ask them”: Abi Maxwell, author of ‘One Day I’ll Grow Up and Be a Beautiful Woman’
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Thu, 20 Nov 2025
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On rivers, mouths, and memory: Shobha Rao discusses ‘Indian Country’ in advance of Montana tour
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Thu, 13 Nov 2025
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Live from the Ravalli County Museum: Chris Whitaker, “‘Sliding Doors’ moments,” and ‘All the Colors of the Dark’ (Part Two)
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Thu, 06 Nov 2025
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Live! Pledge week episode: Chapter One Bookstore’s Marisa Neyenhuis
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Thu, 23 Oct 2025
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TWQ Mini with Lorissa Rinehart: Jeannette Rankin, “a North star,” and ‘Winning the Earthquake’
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Sun, 02 Nov 2025
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Live from the Ravalli County Museum: Chris Whitaker has learned to paint with ‘All the Colors of the Dark’ (Part One)
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Thu, 30 Oct 2025
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River River poets Corrie Williamson and Joe Wilkins discuss landscape, safety, form, and history
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Thu, 16 Oct 2025
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“I’ve always loved a love story”: Sally Blakely on her debut romance, ‘Friends to Lovers’
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Thu, 09 Oct 2025
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Kevin Barry on his novel, ‘The Heart in Winter,’ “a western with County Cork accents”
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Thu, 02 Oct 2025
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Encore: Amy Gamerman’s ‘The Crazies’ (Part Two)
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Thu, 28 Aug 2025
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Daniel Tam-Claiborne, author of ‘Transplants,’ finds comfort in advocacy and community
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Thu, 03 Jul 2025
337-
“Have you eaten, yet?”: Christine Wu on a shared language of food and her debut collection, ‘Familial Hungers’
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Thu, 19 Jun 2025
336-
On devotion and chosen lineages: Melissa Febos, author of ‘The Dry Season,’ discusses her year of pleasure and celibacy (Part Two)
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Thu, 12 Jun 2025
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On sex and seeing: Melissa Febos, author of ‘The Dry Season,’ discusses her year of pleasure and celibacy (Part One)
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Thu, 05 Jun 2025
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‘Depth Control’: Lauren Westerfield plays dress-up, tries on different selves and genres in debut collection
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Thu, 22 May 2025
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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
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Tue, 23 Sep 2025
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Encore: Amy Gamerman’s ‘The Crazies’ (Part One)
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Thu, 21 Aug 2025
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Encore: ‘We Were the Universe’ with Kimberly King Parsons
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Thu, 26 Jun 2025
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Encore: Laura Marris on absence and archive
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Thu, 25 Sep 2025
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Encore: Sarah Capdeville on her debut, ‘Aligning the Glacier’s Ghost: Essays on Solitude and Landscape’
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Thu, 31 Jul 2025
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Encore: Callan Wink’s ‘Beartooth’ is a novel of grief, family, and the wild
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Thu, 29 May 2025
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Encore: Wildlife biologist Diane K. Boyd is ‘A Woman Among Wolves’ (Part Two)
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Thu, 11 Sep 2025
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Encore: Wildlife biologist Diane K. Boyd is ‘A Woman Among Wolves’ (Part One)
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Thu, 04 Sep 2025
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Encore: Julia Phillips discusses womanhood, trust, and miraculous animals in her sophomore novel, ‘Bear’
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Thu, 24 Jul 2025
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Encore: Chris La Tray on ‘Becoming Little Shell’ (Part Two)
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Thu, 17 Jul 2025
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Encore: Chris La Tray on ‘Becoming Little Shell’ (Part One)