Program Archive

Gregory Spatz, author of the story collection Half as Happy.

Joe Wilkins, author of The Mountain and the Fathers: a memoir.

Sherril Jaffe, author of You Are Not Alone & Other Stories.

Pam Houston, author of Contents May Have Shifted.

Emily Danforth, author of The Miseducation of Cameron Post.

Craig Lancaster, author of Edward Adrift.

H. Lee Barnes, author of the casino thriller Cold Deck.

Todd Wilkinson, author of Last Stand: Ted Turner's Quest To Save A Troubled Planet.

Mardell Hogan Plainfeather, co-author of The Woman Who Loved Mankind.

Martin Etchart, author of the novel The Last Shepherd.

Kate Davis, photographer and author of Bald Eagle Nest: A story of survival in photos.

Alan S. Kesselheim and Thomas Lee writer and photographer, Montana: Real Place, Real People.

Marjorie Smith author of Making Up Amelia.

William Farr author of Blackfoot Redemption.

Charlotte Caldwell author of Visions and Voices: Montana's One-Room Schoolhouses.

Jo Deurbrouck author of Anything Worth Doing.

Pauls Toutonghi author of Evel Knievel Days.

Charles Finn, author of Wild Delicate Seconds: 29 Wildlife Encounters.

Thomas McIntyre, author of The Snow Leopard's Tale.

Jennifer Greene, Julie Cajune, and Antoine Sandoval, author, project director, and illustrator of Huckleberries, Buttercups, and Celebrations.

Marcel Jolley, author of Priors.

TWQ producer Chérie Newman talks with Barbara Theroux and Zed about recently-published books.

Jess Walter, author of Beautiful Ruins.

Lois Red Elk, author of Our Blood Remembers.

Jim Robbins, author of The Man Who Planted Trees.

Emily Danforth, author of The Miseducation of Cameron Post.

Ivan Doig, author of The Bartender's Tale.

Ellaraine Lockie poet, nonfiction author and essayist.

William J. Cobb author of The Bird Saviors.

Barry Lopez talks about the responsibilities of storytellers.

Kim Barnes author of In the Kingdom of Men.

David Abrams author of Fobbit.

Tami Haaland talks about her collection of poetry, When We Wake in the Night.

Pauls Toutonghi author of Evel Knievel Days.

Miah Arnold author of Sweet Land of Bigamy.

Kelly Ferguson author of My Life As Laura.

Bruce Holbert author of Lonesome Animals.

David Allan Cates author of Ben Armstrong's Strange Trip Home.

Mark Sundeen author of The Man Who Quit Money.

Lynn Stegner and Russell Rowland editors of West of 98: Living and Writing the New American West.

Charles Finn author of Wild Delicate Seconds: 29 Wildlife Encounters.

Kim Barnes author of In the Kingdom of Men.

Sheryl Noethe, Montana's Poet Laureate.

Matt Pavelich author of The Other Shoe.

Kaith McCafferty author of The Royal Wulff Murders.

Maile Meloy author of The Apothecary.

Jim Robbins, science writer and author of The Man Who Planted Trees: Lost Groves, Champion Trees, and an Urgent Plan to Save the Planet.

Chere Jiusto, Christine W. Brown, and Tom Ferris share stories from their book Hand Raised: The Barns of Montana.

Shann Ray author of a collection of stories American Masculine.

John Holbrook reads poems from his collection A Clear Blue Sky in Royal Oak.

Debra Gwartny author of Live Through This: A Mother's Memoir of Runaway Daughters and Reclaimed Love.

Barry Lopez talks about the roles and responsibilities of storytellers.

Ed Kemmick reads from his collection of essays, Big Sky, By and By: True Tales, Real People and Strange Times in the Heart of Montana.

Michael Earl Craig reads a few poems, talks about his writing process, and wonders why he gets the same comment, "over and over again," after his live readings.

Kelly Kathleen Ferguson talks about and reads from My Life as Laura: How I Searched for Laura Ingalls Wilder and Found Myself.

Richard S. Wheeler talks about and reads from his latest novel, The Richest Hill On Earth.

Valerie Hedquist talks about and reads from Fra Dana: American Impressionist of the Rockies, which she co-authored with Sue Hart.

O. Alan Weltzien talks about Thomas Savage's novel Lona Hanson. And about his research into the work of this under-appreciated 20th-century writer’s work.

Mary Jane Nealon talks about her life as a nurse and reads from her memoir, Beautiful Unbroken.

Mark Sundeen talks about and reads from The Man Who Quit Money.

Sheryl Noethe, Montana's Poet Laureate, talks about traveling the state on buses and read poems from her Bus Logs series, published in the Whitefish Review.

David Shapiro talks about and reads from his graphic novel Ice Age Cataclysm!.

Lynn Stegner and Russell Rowland talk about and read from the collection of essays and poems they compiled, West of 98: Living and Writing the New American West.

Jonathan Evison talks about and reads from his epic novel West of Here.

Bonnie Jo Campbell talks about and reads from her novel Once Upon A River.

Shann Ray talks about and reads from his collection of storiesAmerican Masculine.

Ruth McLaughlin, author of Bound Like Grass: A Memoir From The High Western Plains.

Germaine White talks about Bull Trout's Gift, a set of educational materials for grade school children.

Maile Meloy talks about and reads from her new novel for middle-school readers, The Apothecary.

Rick Bass talks about and reads from his novel Nashville Chrome.

Poet and publisher Michael Czarnecki talks about publishing the Montana Poets Series and reads a few poems from his collection, Never Stop Asking for Poems.

Rick Craig talks about and reads from his novel, The Last Mountains.

Melanie Rae Thon talks about and reads from her collection of short stories, In This Light.

Ed Kemmick talks about and reads from his collection of true-life stories, The Big Sky, By and By.

Robin Troy talks about and reads from her novel, Liberty Lanes.

Neil McMahon talks about and reads from his thriller, L.A. Mental.

David Moore, Sheryl Noethe, Shaun Gant, Kevin Canty, and Chérie Newman read poetry and prose about conflict and peace (Part 2).

Kim Anderson, Phil Condon, Lisa Simon, and Mark Gibbons read poetry and prose about conflict and peace (Part 1).

Julian Smith talks about and reads from Crossing the Heart of Africa: An Odyssey of Love and Adventure.

Eric Poole talks about and reads from his memoir, Where's My Wand?.

C.J. Box talks about and reads from his Joe Picket novel, Nowhere To Run.

Mary Clearman Blew talks about and reads from her memoir, This Is Not The Ivy League.

David Shapiro talks about and reads from the first graphic novel in the Terra Tempo series, Ice Age Cataclysm!.

Mary Jane Nealon talks about her life as a nurse and reads from her memoir, Beautiful Unbroken.

Jenni Fallein talks about her many careers and reads from her collection of poetry, If Beauty Were A Spy.

David Mogen talks about and reads passages from his memoir, Honyocker Dreams: Montana Memories.

Karl Marlantes talks about his book, Matterhorn: A Novel of the Vietnam War.

Alyson Hagy talks about and reads passages from several of the stories in Ghosts of Wyoming.

Robert Wrigley, talks about and reads from his new collection of poems, Beautiful Country.

Buzzy Jackson, author of Shaking the Family Tree: Blue Bloods, Black Sheep, and other Obsessions of an Accidental Genealogist.

Rick Bass talks about and reads from his novel Nashville Chrome.

Cedar Brant talks about and reads from her collection Like Any Other Dream Will Do.

Marc S. Hendrix, author of Geology Underfoot in Yellowstone Country, and KC Glastetter and Jeremie Hollman, authors of Yellowstone National Park: An ABC Adventure.

Germaine White talks about Bull Trout's Gift, a set of educational materials for grade school children.

Barbara Theroux, Zed, and Chérie Newman help with your summer reading list.

Kim Barker, author of The Taliban Shuffle: Strange Days in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

Sandra Alcosser talks about New Poets of the American West, a collection of poems written by more than 250 poets from 11 western states.

Thomas McGuane, author of Driving on the Rim.

Philip J. Burgess, author of Badlands Child, a collection of poems.

Ruth McLaughlin, author of Bound Like Grass: A Memoir From The High Western Plains.

Richard O. Moore, author of Writing the Silences: Poems.

Alan Heathcock, author of Volt: Stories.

Jenny Shank, author of The Ringer.

Jeff Hull, author of Streams of Consciousness: Hip-Deep Dispatches from the River of Life and Pale Morning Done.

Charles Wilkinson, author of The People Are Dancing Again: The History of the Siletz Tribe of Western Oregon, with Tribal Chairman Delores Pigsley and Vice-Chairman Bud Lane.

Carol Bradley, author of Saving Gracie: How One Dog Escaped the Shadowy World of American Puppy Mills .

Jenni Fallein, poet and artist, talks about her new collection If Beauty Were a Spy.

Jeremy N. Smith, author of Growing a Garden City.

Faith Hickman Brynie, author of more than 25 science books, including Brain Sense: The Science of the Senses and How We Process The World Around Us.

James Lee Burke, talks about and reads from his new Dave Robicheaux novel, The Glass Rainbow.

Kathleen Dean Moore, talks about and reads from her collection of essays, Wild Comfort: The Solace of Nature.

C.J. Box, talks about and reads from his new Joe Pickett novel, Nowhere To Run.

Sarahlee Lawrence, author of River House: A Memoir.

Buzzy Jackson, author of Shaking the Family Tree: Blue Bloods, Black Sheep, and other Obsessions of an Accidental Genealogist.

Janet Fox, author of Faithful, a novel for teens and young adults.

Robert Wrigley, talks about and reads from his new collection of poems, Beautiful Country.

Barbara Theroux and Zed talk with TWQ producer Chérie Newman about a few of the terrific books published by regional writers during 2010.

Alyson Hagy, author of a new collection of stories, Ghosts of Wyoming.

Mary Zeiss Stange, author of Hard Grass: Life on the Crazy Woman Bison Ranch.

Paul VanDevelder, author of Savages & Scoundrels: The Untold Story of America's Road to Empire through Indian Territory.

Dan O'Brien, author of Stolen Horses.

Thomas McGuane, author of Driving on the Rim.

Frances McCue, author of The Car That Brought You Here Still Runs.

Laura Munson, author of This Is Not The Story You Think It Is: A Season of Unlikely Happiness.

Virginia Tranel, author of Benita: Prey For Him.

Dan Flores, historian and author of eight books, including Visions of the Big Sky: Painting and Photographing the Northern Rocky Mountain West.

Sneed B. Collard III, author of more than 50 books, including The World Famous Miles City Bucking Horse Sale.

Sandra Alcosser, Montana's first Poet Laureate, talks about New Poets of the American West, an impressive new collection of poetry edited by Lowell Jaeger and published by Many Voices Press. The collection features more than 250 poets from 11 western states.

Keir Graff, author of four political crime novels, including The Price of Liberty.

Alex Smith, Andrew Smith, and Ken White, filmmakers and writers of a screenplay adaptation of James Welch's Winter in the Blood.

Timothy Egan, author of The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America.

Craig Johnson, author of the Walt Longmire Mystery Series.

Keetje Kuipers author of a new collection of poetry, Beautiful in the Mouth.

James Lee Burke, author of 29 novels, including his latest, a Dave Robicheaux novel: The Glass Rainbow.

Carol Bradley, author of Saving Gracie: How one dog escaped the shadowy world of American puppy mills.

Ednor Therriault, author of Montana Curiosities.

Marianne Wiggins, author of nine novels and former wife of Salman Rushdie.

Richard O. Moore, poet, filmmaker, radio and television producer, talks about his new collection, and how it feels to be on tour at the age of 90.

Zach Dundas, author of The Renegade Sportsman.

Robert Boswell, author of The Heyday of the Insensitive Bastards.

Samuel Ligon, author of Drift and Swerve and Safe In Heaven Dead.

Laura Bell, author of Claiming Ground.

Roger Dunsmore, poet, talks about his new collection You're Just Dirt.

Mark Spragg, author of Bone Fire.

Amanda Eyre Ward, talks about her books Love Stories In This Town: Stories and Forgive Me.

Faith Hickman Brynie, author of more than 25 science books, including Brain Sense: The Science of the Senses and How We Process The World Around Us.

Chris Dombrowski, poet, talks about his new collection By Cold Water.

Chris Jones, writer-at-large for Esquire Magazine.

Craig Lancaster, author of 600 Hours of Edward.

Jeanette Ingold, author of Paper Daughter.

Lauren Kessler, author of Dancing With Rose.

Kevin Canty, talks about his collection of stories, Where The Money Went.

Mark Gibbons, reads poetry and talks about his collection, Blue Horizon.

Tami Haaland, reads from and talks about her collection of poems, Breath In Every Room.

Brian Schott, founding editor of the Whitefish Review.

Lowell Jaeger, talks about his third collection of poems, Suddenly Out Of A Long Sleep.

Rachael Toor, author of Personal Record: A Love Affair With Running.

Heather Barberi, author of The Lace Makers of Glenmara.