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 res...
3 Maj 202530min
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 Apr 202530min
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 Mars 202530min
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 Jan 202533min
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 Dec 202429min
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 Dec 202442min
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 Okt 202433min
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 Juli 202424min
