Lauren R. Korn

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

This week on The Write Question, host Lauren Korn speaks with writer and translator Laura Marris, author of The Age of Loneliness (Graywolf Press). About the book:In this debut essay collection, Laura Marris reframes environmental degradation by setting aside the conventional, catastrophic framework of the Anthropocene in favor of that of the Eremocene, the age of loneliness, marked by the dramatic thinning of wildlife populations and by isolation between and among species.

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

This week on The Write Question, host Lauren Korn speaks with Dr. Tao Leigh Goffe: theorist, interdisciplinary artist, and author of Dark Laboratory: On Columbus, The Caribbean, and the Origins of the Climate Crisis (Doubleday, Penguin Random House). Part memoir, part cultural reportage, and part social study, Dark Laboratory radically transforms how we conceive of Blackness, the natural world, colonialism, and the climate crisis by centering the imagination and play.

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

This week on The Write Question, host Lauren Korn speaks with poet Jericho Brown, author of, most recently, The Tradition (Copper Canyon Press), published in 2019 and winner of the Pulitzer Prize; and, as editor, The Selected Shepherd (University of Pittsburgh Press; Pitt Poetry Series), the poems of Reginald Shephard, published in 2024. NOTE! In celebration of Black History Month and in honor of Martin Luther King, Jr., Jericho will be in Missoula on Thursday, February 6, 2025, at the Phyllis J.

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

In advance of her appearance at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Hamilton, Montana—an event hosted by Chapter One Bookstore—we return to this (edited, truncated) conversation from 2023 with Stephanie Land, author of Class: A Memoir of Motherhood, Hunger, and Higher Education (Atria/One Signal Publishers). Maid, Stephanie’s first memoir, was centered on her life as a working mother, as a housecleaner, but it was also a story about her dream of becoming a writer.

Jan 9, 2025 | mtpr.org | Lauren R. Korn

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). Called the Jane Goodall of wolves, Diane Boyd has spent four decades studying and advocating for wolves in the wilds of Montana near Glacier National Park.