Louise Dennys: Stories from a Publishing Legend
In this episode of Beyond the Page, host John Burnham Schwartz talks with editor and Canadian publishing titan Louise Dennys about her extraordinary career working side by side with writers including ...
19 Feb 202339min
Jennifer Egan: There's No Way Out From the Collective Consciousness
Welcome to Beyond the Page: The Best of the Sun Valley Writers’ Conference. Over the past 25 years, SVWC has become the gold standard of American literary festivals, bringing together contemporary wri...
21 Nov 202235min
Being American in the World We've Made: Ben Rhodes in Conversation with Ayad Akhtar
In this episode of Beyond the Page, BEN RHODES, Barack Obama’s former Deputy National Security Advisor, sits down at the Sun Valley Writers’ Conference with Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist and playwri...
21 Okt 202229min
Rebecca Donner on “All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days”
In this episode of Beyond the Page, host John Burnham Schwartz talks with Rebecca Donner, winner of the 2022 National Book Critics Circle Award for biography for “All the Frequent Troubles of our Days...
2 Juli 202236min
The Last Days of Roger Federer – And Other Endings
When artists and athletes age, what happens to their work? Does it ripen or rot? As our bodies decay, how – and why – do we keep going? In this episode, John Burnham Schwartz sits down with the ever-o...
17 Maj 202237min
Behind the Scenes: Programming the 2022 Sun Valley Writers' Conference
In this episode of Beyond the Page, we offer something fun and different, a lively conversation between SVWC Literary Director John Burnham Schwartz and Associate Director Anne Taylor Fleming about th...
5 Maj 202242min
Susan Orlean Is a Really Serious Chicken Lady
On this episode, John Burnham Schwartz talks with SUSAN ORLEAN, whose New Yorker articles across the last 30 years, along with books such as The Orchard Thief, The Library Book, her biography of the m...
16 Mars 202243min
