Margaret Atwood
Margaret Atwood—author of more than 60 books in almost every conceivable genre, recipient of more than 100 literary prizes—is a global icon. Like Kafka and Orwell before her, she and her writing have become part of the public discourse, wherever we live and whatever our age. Her intelligence is that vital and exacting, her wit that mischievous, her concerns – feminism, environmentalism, dystopian societies – that urgently relevant. The author is fond of quoting a Polish resistance fighter from the Second World War who once told her: “Pray that you will never have the occasion to be a hero.” As it’s turned out, in her long and singular literary career, Margaret Atwood has indeed had the occasion to be a hero, numerous times, and always risen to the moment. After receiving the 2024 Sun Valley Writers Conference Writer in the World Prize, she spoke to Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Ayad Akhtar about her life, her work, and some of the wonders and terrors of the world we are living in. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Louise Dennys: Stories from a Publishing Legend

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 ...

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Aleksandra Crapanzano on Her Dual Passions For Cooking and Writing

Aleksandra Crapanzano on Her Dual Passions For Cooking and Writing

In this episode of Beyond the Page, Anne Taylor Fleming talks with award-winning food writer Aleksandra Crapanzano about her delightful and accessible new cookbook GATEAU: The Surprising Simplicity of...

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Jennifer Egan: There's No Way Out From the Collective Consciousness

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

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”

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

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

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...

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Susan Orlean Is a Really Serious Chicken Lady

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

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