Narrated by John Burnham Schwartz, and in partnership with LitHub, the new SVWC podcast Beyond the Page explores past conference talks, weaving together writers’ ideas in a half-hour podcast once a month. Episode 4, featuring Pakistani-American playwright and author AYAD AKHTAR and his talk from 2017 titled “Muslims in America: A Playwright’s Compendium of Characters,” is now available and can be played from the SVWC website on our Podcasts page or from other public podcast platforms, including Apple, Stitcher, and Spotify.