Ayad Akhtar: Muslims in America: A Playwright’s Compendium of Characters

Ayad Akhtar: Muslims in America: A Playwright’s Compendium of Characters

No playwright has challenged our perceptions of Muslims in America as boldly, and with such dramatic vigor, as has AYAD AKHTAR, who won the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for Disgraced, the most produced play of the 2015-2016 season. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Curtis Sittenfeld

Curtis Sittenfeld

In bestselling author Curtis Sittenfeld’s much-loved new novel, she explores—with her typically keen observations and trademark ability to bring complex women to life on the page—the neurosis-inducing...

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Javier Zamora in conversation with Mitchell Kaplan

Javier Zamora in conversation with Mitchell Kaplan

In this episode of Beyond the Page, recorded live at the 2023 conference, poet and memoirist Javier Zamora talks to legendary bookseller Mitchell Kaplan about his memoir Solito, which chronicles his e...

24 Feb 202422min

Swamp Story: Dave Barry's Florida

Swamp Story: Dave Barry's Florida

Recorded at the closing of the 2023 Sun Valley Writers' Conference, Pulitzer Prize-winning humor writer (and one of the funniest people alive) Dave Barry talks about his latest novel Swamp Story, usin...

18 Jan 202434min

Andrea Elliott in conversation with Ayad Akhtar

Andrea Elliott in conversation with Ayad Akhtar

Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times journalist Andrea Elliot sits down with another Pulitzer winner, novelist and playwright Ayad Akhtar, at the 2023 Writers’ Conference to talk about Elliot’s book,...

15 Des 202342min

Abraham Verghese: Writer in the World

Abraham Verghese: Writer in the World

On this episode, author and physician Abraham Verghese – who received the 2023 Sun Valley Writers’ Conference WRITER IN THE WORLD prize – brings us intimately and poetically into the heart of his rema...

9 Nov 202328min

Will Democracy Survive?

Will Democracy Survive?

In this episode, three of our most cogent and influential writers on global affairs and history – Anne Applebaum, Robert Kagan, and Evan Osnos – discuss the geopolitical ramifications of Russia’s 2022...

27 Sep 202341min

Endangered Species: Tad Friend and the Art of Long-Form Journalism

Endangered Species: Tad Friend and the Art of Long-Form Journalism

Beyond the Page host John Burnham Schwartz talks with New Yorker staff writer Tad Friend, a longtime contributor to the magazine’s Letter from California and the author of two funny, poignant family m...

1 Sep 202330min

From Streaming Wars to Star Wars with Erich Schwartzel

From Streaming Wars to Star Wars with Erich Schwartzel

In this episode of Beyond the Page, SVWC Literary Director John Burnham Schwartz and writer Eric Schwartzel go Hollywood. Schwartzel covers the film industry in The Wall Street Journal's Los Angeles b...

26 Mai 202334min

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