All Episodes
The Write Question — 67 episodes
“I am Idaho”: Emily Ruskovich reflects on mountains and magic, joy and sorrow, and birds falling from the sky
Live from the Ravalli County Museum: Kevin Fedarko takes ‘A Walk in the Park’ (Part Two)
Extended conversation: Daniel Blake Smith joins his subject, Wilmot Collins, to discuss new biography, ‘RUN’
Live from the Ravalli County Museum: Kevin Fedarko takes ‘A Walk in the Park’ (Part One)
TWQ Mini: Allison Aubrey takes the tired out of retirement with ‘Your Turn’
Manoush, Scott, Alex, and Sarah: NPR hosts discuss their books on movement, animals, and economics
James Welch Native Lit Fest returns to Missoula July 15-18, 2026
‘The Negroes Send Their Love’: Sean Hill’s far-ranging homes, Black futures
The swivel and startle of language: Long-time “horse girl” Emily Haworth-Booth discusses her debut novel, ‘Mare’
‘Make Believe’: Mac Barnett writes first book for adults, widens the aperture of what children’s books can be
“Art witch and pragmatist” Courtney Maum publishes anti-capitalist romp, ‘Alan Opts Out’
‘A Truce That Is Not Peace’: Miriam Toews on language, silence, and pop-up wind museums
A “Climate Solutions Week” encore: Mark Easter serves up ‘The Blue Plate’
Don’t fence me in: Hillary Rosner explores global wildlife connectivity and movement in ‘Roam’
Preeti Vangani returns to the body in her sophomore collection, ‘Fifty Mothers’
Uncanny valley: Kim Fu’s venue of post-COVID horror, ‘The Valley of Vengeful Ghosts’
Sally Thompson’s ‘Black Robes Enter Coyote’s World,’ Part Two: Chief Charlo’s speech
Sally Thompson’s ‘Black Robes Enter Coyote’s World,’ Part One: Father Pierre-Jean De Smet
On civics and memory: Jule Banville and Jad Abumrad reimagine the obituary with ‘The Obit Project’ (Extended)
Nina McConigley’s ‘How to Commit a Postcolonial Murder’: Exploring race and eighties girlhood in the American West
Live! Pledge week episode: Allison De Jong is the voice behind many of your favorite ‘Field Notes’
Fred Haefele returns to “vehicular memoir” with ‘The Essential Book of Pickup Trucks’
Growing up with Andrew Martin: In ‘Down Time,’ the author creates avatars of mourning, quest for happiness
Maya Jewell Zeller publishes unfurling, rhizomatic memoir-in-essays, ‘Raised by Ferns’
“We’re all susceptible to cult ways of thinking”: Leah Sottile’s ‘Blazing Eye Sees All’ (Part Two)
“Far left meets far right, finds common cause”: Leah Sottile’s ‘Blazing Eye Sees All’ (Part One)
On blood and belonging: Morgan Talty’s ‘Fire Exit,’ now available in paperback!
“One trip was about fleeing; the other about pilgrimage ‘toward the self’”: Joanna Pocock’s ‘Greyhound’
TWQ Mini: Crystal Koosman becomes an “amateur archivist,” opens Last Best Books
Acclaimed novelist David Guterson on the “lineages of lamas” (and more) in ‘Evelyn in Transit’
Cable guy Colum McCann on connectivity, brokenness, and things left unsaid in ‘Twist’
Tami Haaland investigates ancestry and inheritance in ‘If I Had Said Beauty’
Beyond words: Brian Buckbee writes, dictates ‘We Should All Be Birds’ (with Carol Ann Fitzgerald)
Interrogating systems of power with raft guide Bridget Crocker, author of ‘The River’s Daughter’
Alice Bolin’s ‘Culture Creep,’ a “gut-churning ride” into Millennial girl- and boyhood (Part Two)
Seductive narratives and Alice Bolin’s ‘Culture Creep: Notes on the Pop Apocalypse’ (Part One)
TWQ Mini: Juicy stories, beautiful sentences, and NPR’s 2025 ‘Books We Love’
Where science meets storytelling: Traveling to ‘To the Moon and Back’ with novelist Eliana Ramage
Encore: Christine Wu on a shared language of food and her debut collection, ‘Familial Hungers’
“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’
On rivers, mouths, and memory: Shobha Rao discusses ‘Indian Country’ in advance of Montana tour
Live from the Ravalli County Museum: Chris Whitaker, “‘Sliding Doors’ moments,” and ‘All the Colors of the Dark’ (Part Two)
TWQ Mini with Lorissa Rinehart: Jeannette Rankin, “a North star,” and ‘Winning the Earthquake’
Live from the Ravalli County Museum: Chris Whitaker has learned to paint with ‘All the Colors of the Dark’ (Part One)
Live! Pledge week episode: Chapter One Bookstore’s Marisa Neyenhuis
River River poets Corrie Williamson and Joe Wilkins discuss landscape, safety, form, and history
“I’ve always loved a love story”: Sally Blakely on her debut romance, ‘Friends to Lovers’
Kevin Barry on his novel, ‘The Heart in Winter,’ “a western with County Cork accents”
Encore: Laura Marris on absence and archive
Encore: Keetje Kuipers on her poetics of humility, the danger in love poems about marriage, and bumping around in the dark
Encore: Wildlife biologist Diane K. Boyd is ‘A Woman Among Wolves’ (Part Two)
Encore: Wildlife biologist Diane K. Boyd is ‘A Woman Among Wolves’ (Part One)
Encore: Amy Gamerman’s ‘The Crazies’ (Part Two)
Encore: Amy Gamerman’s ‘The Crazies’ (Part One)
Encore: Ben Goldfarb’s interspecies imagination in ‘Crossings’
Encore: Hanif Abdurraqib’s urgent meditations on time, success, and witness in ‘There’s Always This Year’
Encore: Sarah Capdeville on her debut, ‘Aligning the Glacier’s Ghost: Essays on Solitude and Landscape’
Encore: Julia Phillips discusses womanhood, trust, and miraculous animals in her sophomore novel, ‘Bear’
Encore: Chris La Tray on ‘Becoming Little Shell’ (Part Two)
Encore: Chris La Tray on ‘Becoming Little Shell’ (Part One)
Daniel Tam-Claiborne, author of ‘Transplants,’ finds comfort in advocacy and community
Encore: ‘We Were the Universe’ with Kimberly King Parsons
“Have you eaten, yet?”: Christine Wu on a shared language of food and her debut collection, ‘Familial Hungers’
On devotion and chosen lineages: Melissa Febos, author of ‘The Dry Season,’ discusses her year of pleasure and celibacy (Part Two)
On sex and seeing: Melissa Febos, author of ‘The Dry Season,’ discusses her year of pleasure and celibacy (Part One)
Encore: Callan Wink’s ‘Beartooth’ is a novel of grief, family, and the wild
‘Depth Control’: Lauren Westerfield plays dress-up, tries on different selves and genres in debut collection