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The Write Question
Thursdays, 6:30pm
Program Website: http://thewritequestion.blogspot.com/
The Write Question is a weekly, half-hour program that explores
writing and publishing in the Western United States. Chérie
Newman, a producer with Montana
Public Radio, interviews writers of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.
And, occasionally, a publisher or editor. The program includes readings
and information about the publishing process. The Write Question
receives funding from Humanities
Montana and the Montana Cultural Trust.
January 19
Jonathan Evision
Set in the fictional town of Port Bonita, on Washington State’s rugged Pacific coast, West of Here is propelled by a story that both re-creates and celebrates the American experience. With one segment of the narrative focused on the town’s founders circa 1890 and another showing the lives of their descendants in 2006, Jonathan Evision's novel develops as a kind of conversation between two epochs, one rushing blindly toward the future and the other struggling to undo the damage of the past.
January 26
Russell Rowland and Lynn Stegner
What does it mean to be a westerner? With all the mythology that has grown up about the American West, is it even possible to describe how it was and is here in the West? Starting with that challenge, Lynn Stegner and Russell Rowland invited several dozen members of the western literary tribe to write about living in the West and being a western writer. The resulting collection, West of 98: Living and Writing the New Americian West, is the subject of this week's program.
February 2
Fred Haefle
From working as a timber faller and a tree doctor to profiling environmental protestors and parsing through his own preoccupations with Ken Kesey, Fred Haefele has followed his curiosity into the most extraordinary corners of the place he’s chosen to call home. Extremeophilia is an anthology of seventeen pieces of nonfiction that give us access not only to one of our most talented writers, it shows us the unique emotional and social topography of a region.
February 9
Bonnie Nadzam
Lamb traces the self-discovery of David Lamb, a narcissistic middle aged man with a tendency toward dishonesty, in the weeks following the disintegration of his marriage and the death of his father. Hoping to regain some faith in his own goodness, he turns his attention to Tommie, an awkward and unpopular eleven year-old girl. Lamb is convinced that he can help her avoid a destiny of apathy and emptiness, and even comes to believe that his devotion to Tommie is in her best interest.
February 16
David Shapiro
In Ice Age Cataclysm!, a graphic novel for young readers, Ari, Jenna, and Caleb unlock the secret of time travel and journey back 15,000 years to witness the great Missoula Floods, the largest floods to have ever washed over the face of the earth. This daring trio encounters a charging short-faced bear, giant mammoths, and saber-toothed cats. They tour changing landscapes from the back of the mythic Thunderbird and work together to survive the dangers they encounter.
February 23
Sheryl Noethe
Montana's current Poet Laureate has embarked upon a series of journeys to meet with Montana's school children and citizens, traveling mostly by bus. During this program she'll read some new poems that have emerged from those experiences and talk about her mission to take poetry to the people.
March 1
Mark Sundeen
In 2000, Daniel Suelo left his life savings (all $30 of it) in a phone booth. He has lived without money-and with a newfound sense of freedom and security ever since. The Man Who Quit Money, by Mark Sundeen, is an account of how one man learned to live, sanely and happily, without earning, receiving, or spending a single cent.
March 8
Alan Weltzein
In a collaboration that includes Riverbend Publishing, Dumlummon Institute, and Montana Scholar O. Alan Weltzien, Lona Hanson has been re-published with an introduction written by Weltzien. This novel by Thomas Savage, first published in 1948, is set in southwest Montana, near Dillon. It's the story of Lona Hanson, who does whatever it takes to save the 22,000-acre ranch she's inherited from her grandfather—at a great cost to herself.
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