Best Anne Helen Petersen Podcasts (2024)

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Feeling Burned Out? Anne Helen Petersen On What To Do 1:05:19

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Culture writer Anne Helen Petersen has spent years researching and writing about burnout —that feeling of chronic stress and exhaustion that plagues so many in our always-working culture. On this special replay edition of the show, Anne explains how burnout differs from regular stress, why millennials seem particularly susceptible to it, and how we…

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‘Writing Is My Medicine:’ A Veteran Reflects on the Horrors of Our Evacuation from Afghanistan 1:00:20

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Will Selber is a former Middle East Foreign Area Officer with 20 years of experience in the intelligence community. He served for nearly 1500 days in Iraq and Afghanistan during heavy combat operations. How retired, his life's mission is to shed light on the current situation in Afghanistan and help many of the U.S.'s allies escape the country and …

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Encore: ‘This is Wildfire’: Nick Mott and Justin Angle follow award-winning podcast with “first of its kind” guide 29:02

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This week, MTPR is encoring host Lauren Korn’s conversation with podcasters and authors Nick Mott and Justin Angle; the three talk about the nuances of wildfire: ‘This is Wildfire: How to Protect Yourself, Your Home, and Your Community in the Age of Heat’ (Bloomsbury Publishing) “offers everything you need to know about fire in one useful volume.”…

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The Boys Are Not Alright 54:46

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Boys are in a crisis. They're "isolated, emotionally repressed, and adrift," says guest Ruth Whippman. The research bears her out. Boys are four times more likely than girls to commit suicide, three times more likely to be addicts, and they're dropping out of high school and not going to college at record rates. Whippman, a journalist, cultural cri…

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Joyce Maynard on J.D. Salinger, Her New Novel, and Writing with ADHD 1:13:43

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Fifty years ago, The New York Times Magazine featured Joyce Maynard on its cover for an essay she wrote entitled “An 18-Year-Old Looks Back on Life.” That story would catapult her to national prominence but also mark a traumatic beginning to a celebrated career as a prolific novelist and memoir writer. Unwittingly, Maynard became part of a MeToo sc…

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Dr. Alan Townsend: “You don’t have to be a scientist to have a scientific lens on the world and let that influence your life in positive ways” 29:00

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This week on ‘The Write Question,’ host Lauren Korn speaks to Dr. Alan Townsend, author of ‘This Ordinary Stardust: A Scientist’s Path from Grief to Wonder’ (Grand Central Publishing, Hachette Book Group).By Lauren Korn

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This Writer of 12 Books Teaches You How Embrace Rejection and Fail Forward 55:24

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Guest Steve Almond has written a terrific new book called Truth is the Arrow, Mercy is the Bow: A DIY Manual for the Construction of Stories. In it, he shares the insights he gleaned over three decades as a teacher, mentor, and author of 12 books of fiction and non-fiction. He also talks about his strategy for confronting the all-too-commom fear of…

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Maxim Loskutoff: “What Montana represents to me is an entire species-wide need to re-evaluate our relationship with the natural world” 29:00

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By Lauren Korn

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Surprising Facts They Didn’t Teach You In History Class 46:56

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How much do you know about the history of the day you were born? Could you tell me any significant event, aside from your birth, that happened on your birthday? If you are born on July 4th or January 6th, that’s cheating. We're taking about less infamous days. Guest Dan Bova has written a fun new book for the History Channel called: This Day in His…

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“The truth of the West is a constellation”: Betsy Gaines Quammen discusses ‘Myth and Mending on the Far Side of America’ 29:00

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This week on ‘The Write Question,’ host Lauren Korn speaks with historian and author Betsy Gaines Quammen about ‘True West: Myth and Mending on the Far Side of America’ (Torrey House Press).By Lauren Korn

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TWQ Mini: NPR’s Rachel Martin attempts to “hold the light” and “lean into weird” in new podcast, ‘Wild Card’ 12:53

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For this mini episode of ‘The Write Question,’ host Lauren Korn speaks with NPR’s Rachel Martin about her new podcast, ‘Wild Card’—part-interview, part-existential game show.By Lauren Korn

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“Grief was a safe space for me”: Victoria Chang on engaging with the work of abstract artist Agnes Martin 29:00

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This week on ‘The Write Question,’ host Lauren Korn speaks with poet Victoria Chang, author of ‘With My Back to the World’ (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), a collection that engages with the paintings and writings of celebrated abstract artist Agnes Martin.By Lauren Korn

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Inside the Making of a College Commencement Speech 57:06

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When Ithaca College's president asked Jason DeLand to give this commencement address at his alma mater, he didn't hesitate for one second. DeLand, the co-founder of a big-time advertising firm called Anomaly, has quite the inspiring, rags-to-riches story. He grew up penniless on a street called Swamp Road. But he put himself through college and est…

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The possibility of a door left open: Leonard S. Marcus helps celebrate 50 years of children’s programming on MTPR 29:00

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This week on ‘The Write Question,’ we’re celebrating 50 years of children’s programming on Montana Public Radio. During this episode, host Lauren Korn speaks with critic, biographer, and historian Leonard S. Marcus, one of the world’s leading writers and scholars on children’s books and the people who create them.…

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Investigating the Roots and Resurgence of Anti-Semitism 52:37

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There has been a worrisome escalation of anti-Semitism over the past few months around the world. But what's behind it? Israel's war with Hamas in Gaza or something deeper, more complex? Jonathan Small sits down with Gavriel Rosenfeld, President of the Center for Jewish History and author of "Fascism in America, Past and Present," to delve into the…

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TWQ Mini: Jacqueline Winspear’s Maisie Dobbs series is coming to a close; the author is coming to the Helena Civic Center 13:44

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On this mini episode of ‘The Write Question,’ host Lauren Korn speaks with Jacqueline Winspear, author of twenty novels, eighteen of which comprise the Maisie Dobbs series. The last installment in that series, ‘The Comfort of Ghosts,’ will be published June 4, 2024. Jacqueline is appearing in Helena, Montana, on Monday, May 13, 2024, at the Helena …

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‘With Every Great Breath’: Rick Bass on beauty, writing beyond his “cone of light,” and interrogating metaphor 29:00

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This week on ‘The Write Question,’ host Lauren Korn speaks with author and environmental activist Rick Bass, author of ‘With Every Great Breath’ (Counterpoint Press), a collection of new and selected essays spanning nearly thirty years: from 1995-2023.By Lauren Korn

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A College Professor Explains Why "Like" and "Literally" Are Actually Good English 1:04:01

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Does it make your skin crawl when people use words like "like," "um," and "dude," like literally every hella second? You're not alone. But guest Valerie Fridland argues that these linguistic ticks are actually useful and important ways of communicating. Fridland is a sociolinguist at University of Nevada Reno, and the author of Like, Literally, Dud…

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A Writer's Path to Publishing Her First YA Thriller 52:41

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On this episode, we go behind the scenes with author Trish Lundy to find out what it takes get a YA novel written, sold, and published by a major house. Trish just released her eminently readable debut YA Thriller novel, “The One That Got Away with Murder.” She talks about the process of writing multiple manuscripts before getting it right, her jou…

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“What lifts your heart?”: Melissa Kwasny on “the big loss” and taking ‘The Cloud Path’ to healing 28:59

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In this episode of ‘The Write Question,’ host Lauren Korn speaks with poet Melissa Kwasny, author of ‘The Cloud Path’ (Milkweed Editions), a collection that reckons with grief and its subsequent healing.By Lauren Korn

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TWQ Mini: The Moth Radio Hour’s Chloe Salmon on translating stage performances to the page and on the importance of storytelling, public radio 16:54

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On this mini episode of ‘The Write Question,’ host Lauren Korn speaks with Chloe Salmon, a director and producer at ‘The Moth Radio Hour’ and part of the editorial team behind ‘The Moth Presents: A Point of Beauty: True Stories of Holding on and Letting Go’ (Crown Publishing Group).By Lauren Korn

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Inside an Open Marriage: A Mom Explores Polyamory 1:16:55

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Molly Roden Winter wouldn't seem like the poster child for polyamory. But the married, middle-aged mom's new book, More: A Memoir of Open Marriage, has caught fire, moving the controversial topic from the margins to the mainstream. Winter joins the show to talk about her unexpected open marriage and, with it, a life-changing journey of self-discove…

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Live! Pledge week episode: Montana Poet Laureate Chris La Tray on poetry, public radio, and ‘Becoming Little Shell’ 45:30

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This week on ‘The Write Question,’ Montana Poet Laureate Chris La Tray joins host Lauren Korn in Studio A for a live pledge week (and National Poetry Month!) episode.By Lauren Korn

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TWQ Mini: Toni Jensen, UM’s James and Lois Welch Distinguished Visiting Native American Writer, to read at Missoula Art Museum 7:34

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In this mini episode of ‘The Write Question,’ host Lauren Korn speaks with Métis author Toni Jensen, author of ‘Carry: A Memoir of Survival on Stolen Land’ (Ballantine Books; Penguin Random House). Toni will be giving a reading in collaboration with the University of Montana’s Creative Writing Program on April 12, 2024, at the Missoula Art Museum.…

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Learning to reconnect with banished softness: Tessa Hulls on feeding “the ghosts that stand between mothers and daughters” 29:00

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This week on ‘The Write Question,’ host Lauren Korn speaks with Tessa Hulls about her graphic memoir, ‘Feeding Ghosts’ (MCD; Farrar, Straus & Giroux), the story of three generations of women in her family: her grandmother, Sun Yi; her mother, Rose; and Tessa herself.By Lauren Korn

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A Former Nun Tells the Story of Her Escape from a Monastery 1:05:17

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Catherine Coldstream shares the extraordinary tale of joining an ancient and secretive Carmelite monastery in the UK, surrendering completely to a life of poverty, chastity, and obedience. But years into leading this sheltered and isolated life of a silent nun, she started to realize the complexities and dangers of the life she vowed to live. Her e…

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Carmen Maria Machado on form & genre, fairy tales & urban legends, lineage & representation 29:00

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This week on ‘The Write Question,’ host Lauren Korn speaks with Carmen Maria Machado, the headlining author at the 2024 Get Lit! Festival in Spokane, Washington, which takes place April 11th-14th.By Lauren Korn

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“It’s hard to make human beings believe in things”: Marie-Helene Bertino on belief, education, and the creative process in ‘Beautyland’ 29:00

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This week on ‘The Write Question,’ host Lauren Korn speaks with Marie-Helene Bertino, author of ‘Beautyland,’ a novel about the fragility and resilience of life on our Earth and in our universe.By Lauren Korn

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Mic Drop: What We Misunderstand About Hip Hop 1:05:43

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Hip hop recently celebrated its 50th anniversary. What started off as an underground movement in the 1970s has blossomed into a global phenomenon with no end in sight. How has hip hop managed to not stop after all these years? Why were those who kept calling it a fad so completely wrong? Guest Todd Boyd has curated a comprehensive book called Rappe…

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'I Was Engaged to a Con Man:' A Reporter’s Odyssey Through Deception 55:59

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Veteran journalist Abby Ellin almost married a pathological liar and convicted criminal, but luckily, her reporter's instincts for the truth kicked in, and she averted disaster. Her crazy story is chronicled in her book Duped and podcast Imposters: The Commander. On the show, she talks about falling for the con, discovering the truth, and what the …

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TWQ Mini: Min Jin Lee on late-blooming, spending money, creating communities of care, and more! 19:59

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For this mini episode of ‘The Write Question,’ host Lauren Korn speaks with National Book Award Finalist Min Jin Lee, author of the novels ‘Pachinko’ and ‘Free Food for Millionaires.’ Min Jin is also the editor of ‘The Best American Short Stories’ anthology for 2023 and will be traveling to Kalispell, Montana, for the Wachholz College Center’s WCC …

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Peddling bright colors: Michael Finkel investigates ‘A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession’ in ‘The Art Thief’ 29:00

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This week on ‘The Write Question,’ host Lauren Korn speaks with Michael Finkel, author of ‘The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession,’ a true crime narrative that centers Stéphane Breitwieser, who carried out more than two hundred heists over nearly eight years—in museums and cathedrals all over Europe—and stole more tha…

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