Wachtel, Eleanor

Irish author Hugo Hamilton on memoir The Speckled People
Ann Patchett on Truth & Beauty, a memoir about her friend, poet Lucy Grealy
A D-Day panel on war and film
Asian Heritage Panel with Denise Chong, Anosh Irani, Bharati Mukherjee, & Ruth Ozeki
"Memory And Place" Panel - with Alicia Borinsky, Edwidge Danticat, Martin Doerry, Pico Iyer, and Alberto Manguel
A panel on film adaptations with David Thomson and John Sutherland
A panel on Jewish writing in Canada, with Elaine Kalman Naves, Norman Ravvin, Karen Tulchinsky and Joel Yanofsky
Simon Winchester on his new book, The Meaning of Everything: The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary
Francine du Plessix Gray on her book Them: A Memoir of Parents
An interview with Québécois playwright and author, Michel Tremblay
Hilary Mantel talks about her life and her new memoir, Giving Up the Ghost
Prairie Traditions: Writing Against the Grain - Panel
Adam Nicolson on the creation of the King James Bible
Nuala O'Faolain talks about her life as a writer in Ireland, and her new memoir Almost There: The Onward Journey of a Dublin Woman
Celebrated British author Doris Lessing discusses her life and work
A "Bloomsday" Panel discussions on ideas of Home and Away, with Irish writers Michael Collins, Claire Keegan, Colum McCann and Nuala O'Faolain
The incomparable Margaret Atwood on writing and dystopias in Oryx and Crake and Negotiating with the Dead
Patricia Duncker on her novel The Deadly Space Between
Classic fairy tales with folklorist Maria Tatar
"There's No Place Like Home" - a Panel
Observing the minutiae of life with author Nicholson Baker
A Simple Habana Melody, with Oscar Hijuelos
Biography Panel with Michael Holroyd and Victoria Glendinning
Film critic David Thomson on The New Biographical Dictionary of Film
Recording the voices of literature, with Caedmon Records founders Barbara Holdridge and Marianne Mantell