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When Private Lives Go Public: a panel
This week on Writers & Company - When Private Lives Go Public: a panel. From Israel and Montréal, Edeet Ravel, from South Africa and England, Justin Cartwright and Gillian Slovo, and from South Africa, Njabulo Ndebele. They talk with host Eleanor Wachtel about where the personal meets the political in their writing.
American author Russell Banks on his new novel, Lost Memory of Skin
On Writers & Company this week American writer Russell Banks, described by the New York Times as "the most compassionate fiction writer working today." His new novel, Lost Memory of Skin explores the marginal and the outsider with grit and humour.
Amor Towles takes readers on an all-American road trip in The Lincoln Highway
Amor Towles, the bestselling American author of A Gentleman in Moscow, joins Eleanor Wachtel to talk about his new novel, The Lincoln Highway - an adventurous road story set in the 1950s. *Note: The audio for this episode was recorded during the Covid-19 lockdown and contains occasional low-level equipment-related distortion.
An interview with Irish novelist Patrick McCabe
This week on Writers & Company, Eleanor Wachtel talks with Irish novelist Patrick McCabe. He's the author of the award-winning The Butcher Boy, which was made into a movie by Neil Jordan. Now McCabe has written a wild new book - Call Me the Breeze.