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 Mars 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 Dec 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
Ayad Akhtar: Finding a Voice to Address the American 'Us'
In this episode of Beyond the Page, host John Burnham Schwartz talks with Ayad Akhtar, the new president of PEN America and author of Homeland Elegies, about the uncanny experience of writing his late...
14 Sep 202048min
Susan Orlean: On the Eccentric Nature of Curiosity
In this episode of BEYOND THE PAGE, host John Burnham Schwartz talks with SUSAN ORLEAN, longtime New Yorker staff writer and bestselling author of The Library Book and The Orchid Thief, about librarie...
20 Aug 202030min
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 Josep...
30 Juli 202041min
