Lauren R. Korn

2 weeks ago | mtpr.org | Lauren R. Korn

This week on The Write Question, the second half of host Lauren Korn’s conversation with memoirist Melissa Febos, author of The Dry Season: A Memoir of Pleasure in a Year Without Sex (Knopf). In this, her fifth book, Melissa investigates love and sex and celibacy and relationships, of course, but also control and addiction, spirituality, the divine, and the holy—and the act and art of memoir-writing and mentoring, too. This book (and these are Melissa’s words) “isn’t really a book about celibacy.

3 weeks ago | mtpr.org | Lauren R. Korn

This week on The Write Question, the first half of host Lauren Korn’s conversation with memoirist Melissa Febos, author of The Dry Season: A Memoir of Pleasure in a Year Without Sex (Knopf). In this, her fifth book, Melissa investigates love and sex and celibacy and relationships, of course, but also control and addiction, spirituality, the divine, and the holy—and the act and art of memoir-writing and mentoring, too. This book (and these are Melissa’s words) “isn’t really a book about celibacy.

4 weeks ago | mtpr.org | Lauren R. Korn

This week on The Write Question, host Lauren Korn returns to her conversation with Callan Wink, author of Beartooth(Spiegel & Grau). In an aging, timber house hand-built into the Absaroka-Beartooth mountains, two brothers are struggling to keep up with their debts. They live off the grid, on the fringe of Yellowstone, surviving off and in the wild after the death of their father. Beartooth is a fast-paced tale with moments of surprising poignancy set in the grandeur of the American West.

1 month ago | mtpr.org | Lauren R. Korn

This week on The Write Question, host Lauren Korn speaks with Lauren Westerfield, author of Depth Control: Essays and Autofictions (Unsolicited Press), an experimental collection that explores genre and the body—their internalities and externalities; their limitations and vulnerabilities; their acceptances, rejections, and hungers. This is a conversation about identity and selfhood, genre and experimentation...

1 month ago | mtpr.org | Lauren R. Korn

Front Row Center co-host Lauren Korn speaks with Lisa Simon, owner of Missoula’s Radius Gallery, about James G. Todd, Jr., the late “scholar artist” and printmaker. Jim passed away the last weekend in April. He was eighty-seven.