# writers conference (audio feeds) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 1 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover writers conference. Page: Feed: --- ## Ruth Reichl – The Paris Novel _2026-05-29 · Beyond the Page: The Best of the Sun Valley Writers’ Conference_ 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… [Listen](https://chtbl.com/track/1C3AGD/traffic.megaphone.fm/LIT1850751429.mp3) ## Dan Jones - WHAT THE MIDDLE AGES HAS DONE FOR THE MODERN WORLD _2026-03-06 · Beyond the Page: The Best of the Sun Valley Writers’ Conference_ 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,… [Listen](https://chtbl.com/track/1C3AGD/traffic.megaphone.fm/LIT8238038426.mp3) ## SALMAN RUSHDIE: WRITER IN THE WORLD _2026-02-12 · Beyond the Page: The Best of the Sun Valley Writers’ Conference_ 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. 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… [Listen](https://chtbl.com/track/1C3AGD/traffic.megaphone.fm/LIT5947105371.mp3) ## EVAN OSNOS: “The Haves and Have-Yachts” _2026-01-17 · Beyond the Page: The Best of the Sun Valley Writers’ Conference_ 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… [Listen](https://chtbl.com/track/1C3AGD/traffic.megaphone.fm/LIT6204554749.mp3) ## Doris Kearns Goodwin: “An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s” _2025-12-15 · Beyond the Page: The Best of the Sun Valley Writers’ Conference_ BEYOND THE PAGE Doris Kearns Goodwin: “An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s” 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… [Listen](https://chtbl.com/track/1C3AGD/traffic.megaphone.fm/LIT5780389060.mp3) ## Ocean Vuong "The Emperor of Gladness" _2025-11-11 · Beyond the Page: The Best of the Sun Valley Writers’ Conference_ In this episode – recorded live at the 2025 Writers Conference – I have an intimate conversation, in front of 1500 people, with the novelist and poet Ocean Vuong. When he was two years old, in 1990, Ocean immigrated with his family from Vietnam. They settled in East Hartford, CT, seven relatives sharing a one-bedroom apartment. His mother worked at a nail salon. When Ocean learned to read at 11,… [Listen](https://chtbl.com/track/1C3AGD/traffic.megaphone.fm/LIT9611627316.mp3) ## Dr. Vivek Murphy, From the Heart _2025-10-07 · Beyond the Page: The Best of the Sun Valley Writers’ Conference_ During his tenure as the Surgeon General of the United States, Dr. Vivek Murthy became, in effect, our national healer. In a soft but strong voice, he spoke about the country’s maladies like addiction, depression, and violence, and he made the passionate case that loneliness was the contributor to many of those ills, including our over-dependence on social media. That message is at the heart of… [Listen](https://chtbl.com/track/1C3AGD/traffic.megaphone.fm/LIT3694067955.mp3) ## Margaret Atwood _2025-07-09 · Beyond the Page: The Best of the Sun Valley Writers’ Conference_ 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… [Listen](https://chtbl.com/track/1C3AGD/traffic.megaphone.fm/LIT5901821745.mp3?updated=1752068091) ## Niall Ferguson and Evan Osnos on Kissinger _2025-06-18 · Beyond the Page: The Best of the Sun Valley Writers’ Conference_ No U.S. secretary of state ever achieved such celebrity while in office as Henry Kissinger; immersed in the philosophy of Kant and the diplomacy of Metternich, he was hailed as one of the most important strategic thinkers America has ever produced. Yet no former secretary of state has been more vehemently criticized, most notably for sins of omission and commission in countries such as Bangladesh,… [Listen](https://chtbl.com/track/1C3AGD/traffic.megaphone.fm/LIT1965625709.mp3?updated=1750257782) ## [Never miss a game (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/N2BjbPIGcGAx) _2025-06-18 · **Sponsored**_ Follow any team; get an hour and one-minute web and email reminders. ## Jonathan Eig on Martin Luther King, Jr. _2025-05-03 · Beyond the Page: The Best of the Sun Valley Writers’ Conference_ In this episode, recorded live at the 2024 conference, biographer Jonathan Eig talks about his book on Martin Luther King, Jr., the first major biography of the civil rights leader in decades. Eig resurrects King from myth and history and brings him to vivid life, with all of his emotional complexity and unwavering courage, drawing a fresh and indelible portrait of a man whom he justifiably calls… [Listen](https://chtbl.com/track/1C3AGD/traffic.megaphone.fm/LIT7735090883.mp3?updated=1746214682)