The Write Question

Lauren Korn

540 - Sally Thompson’s ‘Black Robes Enter Coyote’s World,’ Part One: Father Pierre-Jean De Smet

The Write Question is a weekly literary program hosted by Lauren Korn that features authors from the American West—and beyond—including James Lee Burke, Kate Lebo, Anne Helen Petersen, Robert Wrigley, Jess Walter, Stephen Graham Jones, Hoa Nguyen, Maggie Shipstead, Elissa Washuta, and others.

540 - Sally Thompson’s ‘Black Robes Enter Coyote’s World,’ Part One: Father Pierre-Jean De Smet

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Episodios

Sally Thompson’s ‘Black Robes Enter Coyote’s World,’ Part One: Father Pierre-Jean De Smet

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Kevin Barry on his novel, ‘The Heart in Winter,’ “a western with County Cork accents”

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Encore: Keetje Kuipers on her poetics of humility, the danger in love poems about marriage, and bumping around in the dark

Encore: Amy Gamerman’s ‘The Crazies’ (Part One)

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Encore: Chris La Tray on ‘Becoming Little Shell’ (Part Two)

Encore: Chris La Tray on ‘Becoming Little Shell’ (Part One)

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