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

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.

Beyond the Page: The Best of the Sun Valley Writers’ Conference is a arts podcast hosted by Sun Valley Writers’ Conference, with 61 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Sun Valley Writers’ Conference hosts Beyond the Page: The Best of the Sun Valley Writers’ Conference, a arts show with 61 episodes published.

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  Ruth Reichl – The Paris Novel

  May 28, 202633 minS0

  <p>RUTH REICHL, one of our best-known and most well-loved food writers, is the author of five memoirs, including Tender at the Bone and Save Me the Plums.  But she is also a captivating novelist, and, as you might imagine, her fiction is full of sensory pleasures.  In Reichl’s “The Paris Novel”, the protagonist Stella is left with an unusual inheritance from her mother:  a one-way plane ticket and a note reading simply, "Go to Paris."  But Stella is hardly cut out for adventure; a traumatic childhood has confined her to the strict routines of her comfort zone.  In a conversation w...

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  Dan Jones - WHAT THE MIDDLE AGES HAS DONE FOR THE MODERN WORLD

  Mar 5, 202633 minS0

  <p>Did you know that Edward III’s last parliament invented impeachment? That cancel culture in universities actually began at Oxford and in Paris in the 14th Century? That Edward II’s parties would have made Diddy’s freak-offs look like kindergarten parties by comparison? And then there’s the Magna Carta, which supposedly limited the power of the monarchy and established the principle that everyone, including the king, is subject to the law. In this episode – recorded live at the 2025 conference – bestselling British historian Dan Jones, author of such books as The Plantagenets, The Templars, and Henry V, and host of the p...

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  SALMAN RUSHDIE: WRITER IN THE WORLD

  Feb 12, 202632 minS0

  <p>In this episode, recorded live at the 2025 Conference, Salman Rushdie, having received the Sun Valley Writers' Conference Writer in the World Prize, talks with his fellow novelist and great friend Colum McCann. </p> <p><br></p> <p>Rushdie is a writer who needs no introduction: his name has long been recognized around the world for his brilliant writing and his unfailing courage in defending freedom of speech. He was honored for his extraordinary body of work, both fiction and non-fiction – including his memoir Knife:Meditations after an Attempted Murder, his account of the attempt on his life in August of...

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  EVAN OSNOS: “The Haves and Have-Yachts”

  Jan 17, 202631 minS0

  <p>In this episode of Beyond the Page, recorded live at the 2025 Writers Conference, New Yorker staff writer and National Book Award-winning author Evan Osnos dives into the bold-faced, always entertaining, and all too timely topic of how much is too much in our society—or rather, how much is never enough? Such is the question for the billionaires who now make up America’s ultrarich. Their giant yachts, luxury compounds—and, oh yes, tax schemes—are a source of endless, if alarming, fascination. Osnos talks about his bestselling book The Haves and Have-Yachts and the acquisitive appetites and habits of our n...

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  Doris Kearns Goodwin: “An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s”

  Dec 15, 202529 minS0

  <p>BEYOND THE PAGE</p> <p>Doris Kearns Goodwin: “An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s”</p> <p>In this episode – recorded live at the 2025 Writers Conference – Doris Kearns Goodwin, one of America’s most acclaimed and beloved historians, chronicles her and her late husband Richard's experiences working with Presidents Kennedy and Johnson during the tumultuous 1960s, using personal archives to explore pivotal moments and their own relationship. Her bestselling book, “An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s,” offers an intimate, up-close look at figures like JFK, LBJ, and RFK, weaving together their personal lives with majo...

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