Wednesday, February 17, 2010

Mark Gibbons: Love, War, & Madness



Poet and teacher Mark Gibbons is the guest this week on The Write Question. He'll read poems from Love, War, & Madness and talk about his life as a blue-collar working man with three college degrees.

Hear Mark Gibbons during The Write Question, Thursday evening, February 18, at 7:30 P.M. on Montana Public Radio. Or click through to the Montana Public Radio Web site to listen online.

Wednesday, February 10, 2010

Robert Boswell: The Heyday of the Insensitive Bastards



This week on The Write Question, producer Chérie Newman talks with Robert Boswell, author of six novels, three short story collections, and a book about writing fiction: The Half-Known World: On Writing Fiction.

Tune in to Montana Public Radio Thursday, February 11 at 7:30 P.M. Or click through to the Montana Public Radio Web site to listen to the program online.

Wednesday, February 3, 2010

Timothy Egan: The Big Burn

Timothy Egan
This week's guest on The Write Question is Timothy Egan, a Pulizter Prize-winning reporter who writes a weekly column for the New York Times. He's also the author of five nonfiction books, two of which have won National Book Awards.

His latest book, The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America, tells the story of America's worst forest fire, which happened near Missoula, Montana, in 1910. And Teddy Roosevelt's triumphant struggle to save our forests from greedy robber barons like William A. Clark and J.D. Rockefeller.

Tune in to Montana Public Radio Thursday, February 4, at 7:30 P.M. to hear Timothy Egan on The Write Question. Or click here to listen online.