George Packer: How Do We Wrap Our Arms Around America?

George Packer: How Do We Wrap Our Arms Around America?

As the country reeled under the weight of one shock after another—first the pandemic, then levels of mass unemployment not seen since the Great Depression, and most recently an unprecedented wave of protests against racism and police brutality—the June issue of The Atlantic magazine ran a cover story with the provocative title, “We Are Living in a Failed State.” The author was George Packer, one of the preeminent long-form journalists writing in the US today. His last three books—The Assassins Gate about the invasion of Iraq, The Unwinding about the economic and social transformation of America since the 1970s and Our Man, a biography of the larger than life American diplomat, Richard Holbrooke—each in its own unique way, tried to provide a window into the big challenges America has faced, both abroad and at home, over the last twenty-five years. In this episode, George talks with Liaquat Ahamed, a board member of the Sun Valley Writers Conference about where we are as a country, how we got here, and how a writer of non-fiction like him is able, using techniques drawn from the great novelists, “to wrap his arms around America.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Louise Dennys: Stories from a Publishing Legend

Louise Dennys: Stories from a Publishing Legend

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Aleksandra Crapanzano on Her Dual Passions For Cooking and Writing

Aleksandra Crapanzano on Her Dual Passions For Cooking and Writing

In this episode of Beyond the Page, Anne Taylor Fleming talks with award-winning food writer Aleksandra Crapanzano about her delightful and accessible new cookbook GATEAU: The Surprising Simplicity of...

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Jennifer Egan: There's No Way Out From the Collective Consciousness

Jennifer Egan: There's No Way Out From the Collective Consciousness

Welcome to Beyond the Page: The Best of the Sun Valley Writers’ Conference. Over the past 25 years, SVWC has become the gold standard of American literary festivals, bringing together contemporary wri...

21 Marras 202235min

Being American in the World We've Made: Ben Rhodes in Conversation with Ayad Akhtar

Being American in the World We've Made: Ben Rhodes in Conversation with Ayad Akhtar

In this episode of Beyond the Page, BEN RHODES, Barack Obama’s former Deputy National Security Advisor, sits down at the Sun Valley Writers’ Conference with Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist and playwri...

21 Loka 202229min

Rebecca Donner on “All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days”

Rebecca Donner on “All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days”

In this episode of Beyond the Page, host John Burnham Schwartz talks with Rebecca Donner, winner of the 2022 National Book Critics Circle Award for biography for “All the Frequent Troubles of our Days...

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The Last Days of Roger Federer – And Other Endings

The Last Days of Roger Federer – And Other Endings

When artists and athletes age, what happens to their work? Does it ripen or rot? As our bodies decay, how – and why – do we keep going? In this episode, John Burnham Schwartz sits down with the ever-o...

17 Touko 202237min

Behind the Scenes: Programming the 2022 Sun Valley Writers' Conference

Behind the Scenes: Programming the 2022 Sun Valley Writers' Conference

In this episode of Beyond the Page, we offer something fun and different, a lively conversation between SVWC Literary Director John Burnham Schwartz and Associate Director Anne Taylor Fleming about th...

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Susan Orlean Is a Really Serious Chicken Lady

Susan Orlean Is a Really Serious Chicken Lady

On this episode, John Burnham Schwartz talks with SUSAN ORLEAN, whose New Yorker articles across the last 30 years, along with books such as The Orchard Thief, The Library Book, her biography of the m...

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