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 Joseph Stalin, who in his three decades as the tyrannical ruler of the Soviet Union was responsible for the deaths of far more than twenty million people. At the height of the Cold War, Svetlana became the most important Soviet citizen ever to defect to the West, arriving in New York to throngs of reporters and a nation hungry to hear her story. By her side was a young lawyer sent by the CIA to smuggle her into America. That lawyer was John Burnham Schwartz’s father. In this episode of Beyond the Page, moving between excerpts from his talk at the Sun Valley Writers’ Conference and a conversation with New Yorker Staff Writer Larissa MaFarqhuhar, Schwartz recreates for us the story of an extraordinary, troubled woman’s search for a new life and a place to belong. 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

In this episode of Beyond the Page, host John Burnham Schwartz talks with editor and Canadian publishing titan Louise Dennys about her extraordinary career working side by side with writers including ...

19 Helmi 202339min

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...

20 Joulu 202234min

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...

2 Heinä 202236min

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...

5 Touko 202242min

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...

16 Maalis 202243min

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