Beyond the Page: The Best of the Sun Valley Writers’ Conference

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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 writing's brightest stars for their view of the world through a literary lens. Every month, Beyond the Page will curate and distill the best talks from the past quarter century at the Writers’ Conference, giving you a front row seat on the kind of knowledge, inspiration, laughter, and meaning that Sun Valley has come to be known for.

Episode Date
Curtis Sittenfeld
May 17, 2024
Javier Zamora in conversation with Mitchell Kaplan
Feb 24, 2024
Swamp Story: Dave Barry's Florida
Jan 18, 2024
Andrea Elliott in conversation with Ayad Akhtar
Dec 15, 2023
Abraham Verghese: Writer in the World
Nov 09, 2023
Will Democracy Survive?
Sep 27, 2023
Endangered Species: Tad Friend and the Art of Long-Form Journalism
Sep 01, 2023
From Streaming Wars to Star Wars with Erich Schwartzel
May 26, 2023
Louise Dennys: Stories from a Publishing Legend
Feb 19, 2023
Aleksandra Crapanzano on Her Dual Passions For Cooking and Writing
Dec 20, 2022
Jennifer Egan: There's No Way Out From the Collective Consciousness
Nov 21, 2022
Being American in the World We've Made: Ben Rhodes in Conversation with Ayad Akhtar
Oct 21, 2022
Rebecca Donner on “All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days”
Jul 02, 2022
The Last Days of Roger Federer – And Other Endings
May 17, 2022
Behind the Scenes: Programming the 2022 Sun Valley Writers' Conference
May 05, 2022
Susan Orlean Is a Really Serious Chicken Lady
Mar 16, 2022
Annette Gordon-Reed: Getting History Right
Feb 22, 2022
Tobias Wolff: The Art of the Story
Dec 28, 2021
How Lincoln Broke the Constitution
Nov 15, 2021
Elliot Ackerman on the End of the Forever War
Oct 20, 2021
Patrick Radden Keefe on the Relationship Between Reporting and Storytelling
Sep 17, 2021
Mark Stevens and Annalyn Swan on the Private Life of Francis Bacon
Aug 15, 2021
The Education of an Idealist: U.S. Ambassador Samantha Power on Soft Power and Hard Lessons
Apr 27, 2021
Francis Lam's Food For Thought
Apr 18, 2021
David Eagleman Gets In Your Head
Mar 10, 2021
Barry Lopez: "Leaning Into the Light"
Jan 26, 2021
Madeline Miller on Why Homer’s Wisdom Has Never Been More Relevant
Dec 04, 2020
Roger McNamee on the Incompatibility of Social Media and Democracy
Nov 04, 2020
Isabel Allende on the Stories of Refugees Known and Imagined
Oct 07, 2020
Ayad Akhtar: Finding a Voice to Address the American 'Us'
Sep 14, 2020
Susan Orlean: On the Eccentric Nature of Curiosity
Aug 20, 2020
The Red Daughter: The Remarkable Life of Stalin’s Daughter
Jul 30, 2020
Roger Wilkins: “Bearing Witness”
Jul 20, 2020
George Packer: How Do We Wrap Our Arms Around America?
Jun 15, 2020
Alexander Maksik on Caring For an Ill and Aging Parent From a Distance
May 30, 2020
The End of Secrets: Family History in the Age of Bio-Ethics
Apr 23, 2020
Frank McCourt: The Underlying Story
Mar 17, 2020
2018: Literary Immigration: A Conversation with Edwidge Danticat
Feb 15, 2020
Mitch Landrieu: A White Southerner Confronts History
Jan 16, 2020
Alexandra Fuller: Memories of an African Childhood
Dec 15, 2019
Ayad Akhtar: Muslims in America: A Playwright’s Compendium of Characters
Nov 15, 2019
Min Jin Lee: On Speaking and Power
Oct 01, 2019
David Grossman: Creating a Dialogue in Israel
Sep 01, 2019
Anthony Doerr: The Beautiful Art of Failure
Jul 17, 2019