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
Annette Gordon-Reed: Getting History Right
Is Thomas Jefferson to be deplored as a slave-owner who had a family with a young woman he owned or is he to be celebrated as one of the country's most essential and gifted founders? Or, should he be ...
22 Feb 202236min
Tobias Wolff: The Art of the Story
In this episode of Beyond the Page, John Burnham Schwartz speaks with author TOBIAS WOLFF, renowned for his classic memoirs and short stories, for an intimate, wide-ranging conversation about life, li...
28 Dec 202133min
How Lincoln Broke the Constitution
In this episode, John Burnham Schwartz speaks with Noah Feldman, Harvard Law professor and renowned Constitutional scholar, whose groundbreaking new book, The Broken Constitution: Lincoln, Slavery, an...
15 Nov 202147min
Elliot Ackerman on the End of the Forever War
In this episode of Beyond the Page, acclaimed novelist, journalist, and Marine Corps veteran ELLIOT ACKERMAN talks to former CBS News Vice President and Washington Bureau Chief Christopher Isham about...
20 Okt 202137min
Patrick Radden Keefe on the Relationship Between Reporting and Storytelling
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...
17 Sep 202145min
