Roger Wilkins: “Bearing Witness”
In 2002, the late civil rights champion Roger Wilkins gave one of the most memorable talks ever given at the Writers’ Conference. Roger’s great grandfather was a slave. Two generations later, Roger’s...
20 Juli 202027min
George Packer: How Do We Wrap Our Arms Around America?
As the country reeled under the weight of one shock after another—first the pandemic, then levels of mass unemployment not seen since the Great Depression, and most recently an unprecedented wave of p...
15 Juni 202035min
Alexander Maksik on Caring For an Ill and Aging Parent From a Distance
What happens, what emotional threads get pulled when halfway around the globe a father gets sick from Covid? In an evocative personal essay for The New Yorker, My Father's Voice from Paris, novelist A...
30 Maj 202032min
The End of Secrets: Family History in the Age of Bio-Ethics
In the spring of 2016, author DANI SHAPIRO received the stunning news through a genealogy website that her father was not her biological father. Her memoir, Inheritance, captures her urgent quest to ...
23 Apr 202042min
Frank McCourt: The Underlying Story
In 1996, (a 66-year-old) retired New York City public school teacher named Frank McCourt published his first book, a memoir about his brutally impoverished Irish Catholic childhood in the slums of Lim...
17 Mars 202024min
2018: Literary Immigration: A Conversation with Edwidge Danticat
In one way or another, from the moment she left Haiti to settle in Brooklyn, New York, at age 12, Edwidge Danticat has been writing stories (prize-winning novels, memoirs, and essays) about the experi...
15 Feb 202028min
Mitch Landrieu: A White Southerner Confronts History
When New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu addressed the people of his city in May, 2017 about his decision to take down four Confederate monuments, including the statue of Robert E. Lee, he struck a nerve...
16 Jan 202023min
Alexandra Fuller: Memories of an African Childhood
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...
15 Dec 201925min
