Wachtel, Eleanor

WIlliam Boyd talks about Africa, past and present.. Playwright Anne-Marie MacDonald talks about subverting tragedy into comedy.
Social satirist Mordecai Richler on his essay collection, Broadsides: Reviews and Opinions. Social Satirist Fay Weldon on sexual politics and her novel Darcy's Utopia.
Carole Angier discusses her biography of author Jean Rhys.. J.M. Coetzee on life and writing in Apartheid South Africa.
Travel writer Jonathan Raban talks about journeys, both interior and global. Carol Shields discusses her surprising reading habits.
Film critics Molly Haskell, Peter Travers, and Will Aitken discuss "woman as monster" in Hollywood, and an interview with American humorist Calvin Trillan
Peter Ackroyd on the life of Charles Dickens.. A performance of Diane Schoemperlen's "Lonely Blue Dreams"
Sex, violence, and fairytales, with Angela Carter. George Plimpton talks about 37 years of publishing the Paris Review
Alice Munro: Interview and readings from her collection Friend of My Youth
Victoria Glendinning on female writers.. "Being a Writer and Gay Man in the AIDs Era" panel with Peter McGehee, Victor Bumbalo, and Allen Barnett
Special episode on Margaret Atwood
Judith Thompson discusses theatre writing and her new play, "Lion in the Streets". "Native Writing" panel with Thomas King, Daniel David Moses, and Lee Maracle
Marianne Wiggins discusses her fiction.. A report on anglophone writing in Quebec, with David Homel
Audrey Thomas discusses her fiction and reads from The Wild Blue Yonder. Suanne Kelman looks at three new books of miscellanea
"Multicultural Writing" panel with Carmen Rodriguez, Goh Poh Seng, and Jude Narita.. Reading and interview with Patricia Grace
"Literary Biography" panel with Jeffrey Myers, Victoria Glendinning, and Peter Ackroyd. Reading and interview with Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʼo
A.S. Byatt on her novel Possession: A Romance. "The Future of Eastern European Cinema" panel with Richard Bugajski and Graham Petrie
"Performance Storytelling from the West Indies" panel