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
Ayad Akhtar: Muslims in America: A Playwright’s Compendium of Characters
No playwright has challenged our perceptions of Muslims in America as boldly, and with such dramatic vigor, as has AYAD AKHTAR, who won the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for Disgraced, the most produc...
15 Nov 201933min
Min Jin Lee: On Speaking and Power
Welcome to Beyond the Page: The Best of the Sun Valley Writers' Conference. In this episode, we hear from the award-winning novelist Min Jin Lee. Speech, memory, and the power to tell one's story -- f...
1 Okt 201919min
David Grossman: Creating a Dialogue in Israel
Welcome to Beyond the Page: The Best of the Sun Valley Writers' Conference. In this episode, we hear from the great Israeli novelist David Grossman, widely regarded as part of the collective liberal c...
1 Sep 201924min
Anthony Doerr: The Beautiful Art of Failure
Welcome to Beyond the Page: The Best of the Sun Valley Writers' Conference. In a world obsessed with success, Pulitzer-Prize winning novelist ANTHONY DOERR has maintained an abiding belief in, and a c...
17 Juli 201930min
