Mitch Landrieu: A White Southerner Confronts History

Mitch Landrieu: A White Southerner Confronts History

When New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu addressed the people of his city in May, 2017 about his decision to take down four Confederate monuments, including the statue of Robert E. Lee, he struck a nerve throughout the nation – his brave and inspirational speech has now been heard by millions. As he described that experience in his powerful memoir In the Shadow of Statues – and as he tells it here – Mayor Landrieu’s relationship to the question of race in America is deeply personal and complicated, and begins for him with his own family’s history, and the history of the city of his birth. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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David Eagleman Gets In Your Head

David Eagleman Gets In Your Head

On today's episode of Beyond the Page, John Burnham Schwartz speaks with David Eagleman, who not only teaches neuroscience at Stanford University, but is also CEO and co-founder of New Century, a comp...

10 Maalis 202133min

Barry Lopez: "Leaning Into the Light"

Barry Lopez: "Leaning Into the Light"

On Christmas morning, 2020, the writer BARRY LOPEZ died in Eugene, Oregon, surrounded by his family, after a long battle with prostate cancer. Widely honored as one of our greatest writers about the n...

26 Tammi 202125min

Madeline Miller on Why Homer’s Wisdom Has Never Been More Relevant

Madeline Miller on Why Homer’s Wisdom Has Never Been More Relevant

In this episode of BEYOND THE PAGE, host John Burnham Schwartz talks with novelist and classicist MADELINE MILLER, author of THE SONG OF ACHILLES and CIRCE, about why Homer’s wisdom has never been mor...

4 Joulu 202045min

Roger McNamee on the Incompatibility of Social Media and Democracy

Roger McNamee on the Incompatibility of Social Media and Democracy

Join us for a conversation with ROGER MCNAMEE, the noted tech venture capitalist, early mentor to Mark Zuckerberg, and Facebook investor, who went from being a founding supporter of the world’s bigges...

4 Marras 202045min

Isabel Allende on the Stories of Refugees Known and Imagined

Isabel Allende on the Stories of Refugees Known and Imagined

In this episode, internationally beloved author ISABEL ALLENDE, sits down virtually with her good friend, PBS/NewsHour’s Jeffrey Brown, to discuss her latest novel “A LONG PETAL OF THE SEA.” Along the...

7 Loka 202035min

Ayad Akhtar: Finding a Voice to Address the American 'Us'

Ayad Akhtar: Finding a Voice to Address the American 'Us'

In this episode of Beyond the Page, host John Burnham Schwartz talks with Ayad Akhtar, the new president of PEN America and author of Homeland Elegies, about the uncanny experience of writing his late...

14 Syys 202048min

Susan Orlean: On the Eccentric Nature of Curiosity

Susan Orlean: On the Eccentric Nature of Curiosity

In this episode of BEYOND THE PAGE, host John Burnham Schwartz talks with SUSAN ORLEAN, longtime New Yorker staff writer and bestselling author of The Library Book and The Orchid Thief, about librarie...

20 Elo 202030min

The Red Daughter: The Remarkable Life of Stalin’s Daughter

The Red Daughter: The Remarkable Life of Stalin’s Daughter

In his sixth novel, The Red Daughter, novelist (and regular Beyond the Page host, JOHN BURNHAM SCHWARTZ imaginatively inhabits the life of Svetlana Alliluyeva (1926 – 2011), the only daughter of Josep...

30 Heinä 202041min

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