Jonathan Eig on Martin Luther King, Jr.

Jonathan Eig on Martin Luther King, Jr.

In this episode, recorded live at the 2024 conference, biographer Jonathan Eig talks about his book on Martin Luther King, Jr., the first major biography of the civil rights leader in decades. Eig resurrects King from myth and history and brings him to vivid life, with all of his emotional complexity and unwavering courage, drawing a fresh and indelible portrait of a man whom he justifiably calls one of America’s founding fathers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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The Radical Honesty of Judy Blume

The Radical Honesty of Judy Blume

In this episode of Beyond the Page, lucky listener, you get to hear the great Judy Blume, the author of twenty-five books for young readers and four novels for adults that all-told have sold more than...

11 Huhti 202530min

Dennis Lehane: Confessions of a Novelist Turned TV Showrunner

Dennis Lehane: Confessions of a Novelist Turned TV Showrunner

In this episode, recorded live at the 2024 Writers Conference, I sit down with bestselling crime novelist and TV writer/producer DENNIS LEHANE for a lively, wide-ranging conversation about how he appr...

6 Maalis 202530min

John Vaillant: Fire Weather

John Vaillant: Fire Weather

We were already editing this episode when the L.A. fires broke out on January 7, 2025. In fact, our editor Dean Grinsfelder had to evacuate as the flames moved in. So did my 91-year-old dad, and so di...

22 Tammi 202533min

Kristin Hannah in conversation with Jenny Emery Davidson

Kristin Hannah in conversation with Jenny Emery Davidson

In this episode, recorded live at the 2024 Sun Valley Writers' Conference, novelist Kristin Hannah talks to Jenny Emery Davidson, the executive director of The Community Library in Ketchum, Idaho, abo...

13 Joulu 202429min

Ancient Wisdom and the Enduring Power of Community

Ancient Wisdom and the Enduring Power of Community

In a time of loneliness and isolation, social rupture and alienation, what will it take to mend our broken hearts and rebuild our society? In this episode, one of Ameriica’s leading rabbis, and the au...

2 Joulu 202442min

Putin, Ukraine, and the Future of Russia

Putin, Ukraine, and the Future of Russia

The author of a seminal book on Putin, All The Kremlin’s Men, and the founding editor-in-chief of what was Russia’s most truth-telling opposition news channel TV Rain, Mikhail Zygar is a journalistic ...

7 Loka 202433min

Patrick Radden Keefe

Patrick Radden Keefe

In this episode, recorded live at the 2023 Sun Valley Writers’ Conference, New Yorker Staff Writer Patrick Radden Keefe, who has garnered prizes ranging from the National Magazine Award to the Orwell ...

16 Heinä 202424min

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