During this program, Charles Finn reads from his collection of micro-essays, Wild Delicate Seconds: 29 Wildlife Encounters: Black Bears to Bumble Bees, and talks about what he's discovered about being human while observing animals, birds, and insects.

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CHARLES FINN is editor of High Desert Journal. His writing is published in more than fifty newspapers, journals, magazines, and anthologies, including The Sun, Open Spaces, Northern Lights, Big Sky Journal, and High Country News.

Before joining High Desert Journal, Finn taught English as a foreign language in Hiroshima, Japan, hid out in the woods of British Columbia, Canada, learned the art of deconstruction in Potomac, Montana, and wrote.

A self-taught woodworker and proponent of “living little” he lived for many years in an 8' x 12' cabin of his own making with no running water or electricity. During this time, he began A Room of One's Own, building “microhomes,” one-room wood cabins constructed entirely out of reclaimed lumber and materials he salvaged from taking down old barns and buildings. Originally from Vermont, he now lives in Elizabeth, New Jersey, with his wife Joyce Mphande-Finn and their two cats Pushkin and Lutsa.

Read a micro-review of Wild Delicate Seconds at OregonLive.com.

You'll find Wild Delicate Seconds at Fact & Fiction in Missoula or at your local independent bookseller.

The Write Question is produced by Chérie Newman.

Read an interview with TWQ producer Chérie Newman on the Humanities Montana Web site.

Executive producer, Michael Marsolek.

Special thanks to Lisa Simon, David Moore, Barbara Theroux, and Kim Anderson.

This program is supported in part by Humanities Montana, connecting kids to community, supporting vital cultural institutions, and encouraging community conversations. And by Montana's Cultural Trust, Fact & Fiction book stores, and Public Radio Listeners.

The Write Question: a program that explores the world of writing and publishing in the western United States.

The music in this program was written and performed by John Floridis.

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Guests on the The Write Question are writers, publishers, and illustrators living, or working for an extended period of time, in the western United States. The Write Question is a production of Montana Public Radio.