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A conversation with American writer John Updike
Writers & Company host Eleanor Wachtel speaks with one of America's most successful, most elegant, and most accomplished writers, John Updike. In a career that spans almost 40 years, Updike is an astute social observer and sympathetic chronicler of the "ordinary guy."
Michael Chabon on his new novel Telegraph Avenue
This week, a great American storyteller, Michael Chabon. He's one of those wunderkind Authors whose Master's thesis in Creative Writing turned into a big advance and a published novel while he was still in his early 20s. From Wonder Boys and The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay to The Yiddish Policeman's Union and now, Telegraph Avenue.
Rick Moody on his inventive new novel, Hotels of North America
Eleanor speaks with American novelist Rick Moody — author of Garden State and The Ice Storm — about travel, religion, and his inventive new novel, Hotels of North America.
Satirist Gary Shteyngart on Little Failure
Eleanor Wachtel speaks with one of America's funniest immigrant satirists, Gary Shteyngart. When he was 5, his grandmother gave him a piece of waxy Russian cheese for every page he wrote. It must have been excellent training, because now he's written a touching new memoir, Little Failure.