Mark Stevens and Annalyn Swan on the Private Life of Francis Bacon
In this episode of BEYOND THE PAGE, host John Burnham Schwartz talks with Pulitzer Prize-winning authors MARK STEVENS and ANNALYN SWAN about their landmark biography Francis Bacon: Revelations. MARK S...
15 Aug 202141min
The Education of an Idealist: U.S. Ambassador Samantha Power on Soft Power and Hard Lessons
In this episode of BEYOND THE PAGE, former United States Ambassador to the United Nations, human rights activist, and Pulitzer Prize-winning author SAMANTHA POWER – interviewed in the lead-up to her p...
27 Apr 202154min
Francis Lam's Food For Thought
In this episode, the host of American Public Media’s award-winning radio show The Splendid Table shares with us a few unforgettable food stories from his childhood, along with some of his current thou...
18 Apr 202138min
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 Mar 202133min
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 Jan 202125min
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 Des 202045min
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 Nov 202045min
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 Okt 202035min
