Maile Meloy: Both Ways Is The Only Way I Want It

This week on The Write Question, Maile Meloy talks about the stories in her new collection, Both Ways Is The Only Way I Want It. She also reads a few pages of "O Tannenbaum."

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Victor Charlo

Victor Charlo, poet and great-great grandson of Chief Victor Charlo of the Bitterroot Salish, talks about Indian ways, new and old, this week on The Write Question. He also reads some of the poems in his new collection, Put Seý.

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Kevin Goodan, poet and professor

If you enjoy smart, but accessible poetry, check out Kevin Goodan's new collection, Winter Tenor. And hear him read a few of his poems and talk about writing this week on The Write Question.

New collections by Western Montana Native American poets:

Put Seý, by Victor Charlo
Suddenly Out Of A Long Sleep, by Lowell Jaeger

Pulitzer Prize Nominee Craig Lesley

Craig Lesley, an award-winning author from Portland Oregon, was in Missoula last February. I enjoyed his books and our discussion so much, that I'm repeating this program -- in honor of Father's Day.

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What's her name?

Ever wonder how to pronounce the name of the only woman who traveled with the Corps of Discovery? Well, now's your chance to find out. Stephenie Ambrose Tubbs, Lewis and Clark scholar, is our guest this week on The Write Question.

Her book of essays on Lewis and Clark, Why Sacagawea Deserves the Day Off and other Lessons from the Lewis and Clark Trail, was published by the University of Nebraska Press in the Fall of 2008.

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Montana Historian Gary Glynn

This week, Missoula historian Gary Glynn is our guest on The Write Question. He'll talk about writing the text for a new Turner Publications book of Montana photography: Historic Photos of Montana.

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Yellowstone Autumn: A Season of Discovery in a Wondrous Land

Although he is not a western writer, W.D. Wetherell's new book, Yellowstone Autumn: A Season of Discovery in a Wondrous Land, is well worth a western reader's time. Wetherell's view of the park is delivered with the clarity and insight often available only to those we call "outsiders."

Click here to read Chérie Newman's review of Yellowstone Autumn, written for High Country News.