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The Write Question - Terry Tempest Williams, Part One
From KUFM - Montana Public Radio | Part of the The Write Question series | 29:00
In June, Terry Tempest Williams visited Missoula, Montana, to take part in the 2022 “In the Footsteps of Norman Maclean” literary festival, which was held at the Wilma Theater. In this conversation, host Lauren Korn and the beloved writer and activist talk about the festival and the discussions it provoked: on hope and engagement; on building communities of care; on how the overturning of Roe v. Wade speaks to broader issues of human and non-human relationships.
About the 2022 In the Footsteps of Norman Maclean Festival, from their website:
The 2022 In the Footsteps of Norman Maclean Festival will draw numerous prominent Native and non-Native American writers to explore the theme Public Lands & Sacred Ground: Western Writers Bear Witness. Western and Indigenous writers will present their work and share their ideas on the evolution of national parks, decolonization of American literature and history, and the literary inspiration that comes from this unique heritage of American wilderness and public lands.
About Terry Tempest Williams:
Terry Tempest Williams is the award-winning author of The Hour of Land: A Personal Topography of America’s National Parks; Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place; Finding Beauty in a Broken World; and When Women Were Birds, among other books. Her work is widely taught and anthologized around the world. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, she is currently the Writer-in-Residence at the Harvard Divinity School and divides her time between Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Castle Valley, Utah.
The Write Question - Terry Tempest Williams, Part Two
From KUFM - Montana Public Radio | Part of the The Write Question series | 29:00
In June, Terry Tempest Williams visited Missoula, Montana, to take part in the 2022 “In the Footsteps of Norman Maclean” literary festival, which was held at the Wilma Theater. In the second of this two-part conversation, host Lauren Korn and the beloved writer and activist talk about sisterhood; finding beauty in a broken world (or, "Finding Beauty in a Broken World"); and more!
About the 2022 In the Footsteps of Norman Maclean Festival, from their website:
The 2022 In the Footsteps of Norman Maclean Festival will draw numerous prominent Native and non-Native American writers to explore the theme Public Lands & Sacred Ground: Western Writers Bear Witness. Western and Indigenous writers will present their work and share their ideas on the evolution of national parks, decolonization of American literature and history, and the literary inspiration that comes from this unique heritage of American wilderness and public lands.
About Terry Tempest Williams:
Terry Tempest Williams is the award-winning author of The Hour of Land: A Personal Topography of America’s National Parks; Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place; Finding Beauty in a Broken World; and When Women Were Birds, among other books. Her work is widely taught and anthologized around the world. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, she is currently the Writer-in-Residence at the Harvard Divinity School and divides her time between Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Castle Valley, Utah.
The Write Question - James Lee Burke
From KUFM - Montana Public Radio | Part of the The Write Question series | 29:00
Prolific writer of the American West James Lee Burke talks about his newest novel, "Every Cloak Rolled in Blood," his [self-proclaimed] best and most autobiographical novel to-date; he continues the epic Holland family saga with a writer grieving the death of his daughter while battling earthly and supernatural outlaws.
About the book:
Novelist Aaron Holland Broussard is shattered when his daughter Fannie Mae dies suddenly. As he tries to honor her memory by saving two young men from a life of crime amid their opioid-ravaged community, he is drawn into a network of villainy that includes a violent former Klansman, a far-from-holy minister, a biker club posing as evangelicals, and a murderer who has been hiding in plain sight.
Aaron’s only ally is state police officer Ruby Spotted Horse, a no-nonsense woman who harbors some powerful secrets in her cellar. Despite the air of mystery surrounding her, Ruby is the only one Aaron can trust. That is, until the ghost of Fannie Mae shows up, guiding her father through a tangled web of the present and past and helping him vanquish his foes from both this world and the next.
Drawn from James Lee Burke’s own life experiences, Every Cloak Rolled in Blood is a devastating exploration of the nature of good and evil and a deeply moving story about the power of love and family.
About the author:
James Lee Burke is a New York Times bestselling author, two-time winner of the Edgar Award, and the recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts in Fiction. He has authored forty novels and two short story collections. He lives in Missoula, Montana.
The Write Question - Molly Russell
From KUFM - Montana Public Radio | Part of the The Write Question series | 29:00
Missoula-based designer Molly Russell and The Write Question Host Lauren Korn discuss the creative process and challenges that they encountered during the 2022 rebranding and redesign of The Write Question logo and associated media.
Missoula-based designer Molly Russell and The Write Question Host Lauren Korn discuss the creative process and challenges that they encountered during the 2022 rebranding and redesign of The Write Question logo and associated media.
The Write Question - Jamie Ford
From KUFM - Montana Public Radio | Part of the The Write Question series | 29:00
Novelist Jamie Ford discusses his latest novel, "The Many Daughters of Afong Moy."
About the book:
Dorothy Moy breaks her own heart for a living.
As Washington’s former poet laureate, that’s how she describes channeling her dissociative episodes and mental health struggles into her art. But when her five-year-old daughter exhibits similar behavior and begins remembering things from the lives of their ancestors, Dorothy believes the past has truly come to haunt her. Fearing that her child is predestined to endure the same debilitating depression that has marked her own life, Dorothy seeks radical help.
Through an experimental treatment designed to mitigate inherited trauma, Dorothy intimately connects with past generations of women in her family: Faye Moy, a nurse in China serving with the Flying Tigers; Zoe Moy, a student in England at a famous school with no rules; Lai King Moy, a girl quarantined in San Francisco during a plague epidemic; Greta Moy, a tech executive with a unique dating app; and Afong Moy, the first Chinese woman to set foot in America.
As painful recollections affect her present life, Dorothy discovers that trauma isn’t the only thing she’s inherited. A stranger is searching for her in each time period. A stranger who’s loved her through all of her genetic memories. Dorothy endeavors to break the cycle of pain and abandonment, to finally find peace for her daughter, and gain the love that has long been waiting, knowing she may pay the ultimate price.
About the author:
Jamie Ford is the great-grandson of Nevada mining pioneer Min Chung, who emigrated from Hoiping, China to San Francisco in 1865, where he adopted the western name Ford, thus confusing countless generations. His debut novel, Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, spent two years on the New York Times bestseller list and went on to win the 2010 Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature. His work has been translated into thirty-five languages. Having grown up in Seattle, he now lives in Montana with his wife and a one-eyed pug.
The Write Question - David Quammen
From KUFM - Montana Public Radio | Part of the The Write Question series | 29:00
Renowned science writer David Quammen talks about "Breathless: The Scientific Race to Defeat a Deadly Virus," a National Book Award finalist.
About the Book:
Breathless is a “gripping” (The Atlantic) but “clear-eyed analysis” (Time) of SARs-CoV-2 and its fierce journey through the human population, as seen by the scientists who study its origin, its ever-changing nature, and its capacity to kill us. David Quammen expertly shows how strange new viruses emerge from animals into humans as we disrupt wild ecosystems and how those viruses adapt to their human hosts, sometimes causing global catastrophe. He explains why this coronavirus will probably be a “forever virus,” destined to circulate among humans and bedevil us endlessly, in one variant form or another. As scientists labor to catch it, comprehend it, and control it, with their high-tech tools and methods, the virus finds ways of escape.
Based on interviews with nearly one hundred scientists, including leading virologists in China and around the world, Quammen explains that:
- Some scientists, for more than two decades, warned that “the next big one” would be caused by a changeable new virus—very possibly a coronavirus—but such warnings were ignored for political or economic reasons;
- The precise origins of this virus may not be known for years, but some clues are compelling, and some suppositions can be dismissed;
- And much more!
About the Author:
David Quammen’s books include Breathless, The Tangled Tree, The Song of the Dodo, The Reluctant Mr. Darwin, and Spillover, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and recipient of the Premio Letterario Merck, in Rome. He has written for The New Yorker, Harper’s Magazine, The Atlantic, National Geographic, and Outside, among other magazines, and is a three-time winner of the National Magazine Award. Quammen shares a home in Bozeman, Montana, with his wife, Betsy Gaines Quammen, author of American Zion, and with two Russian wolfhounds, a cross-eyed cat, and a rescue python. Visit him at DavidQuammen.com.