Date: 2003-10-19
Name(s): Hastings, Selina, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor, Waugh, Alexander
Description: To celebrate the 100th anniversary of Evelyn Waugh's birth, Eleanor Wachtel talks with his biographer Selina Hastings (re-air from 1995). She'll also talk with Evelyn Waugh's grandson, Alexander Waugh, about his grandfather and life in the Waugh family.
Date: 2022-12-04
Name(s): Dennys, Louise, Gibson, Anne, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Rushdie, Salman, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Thirty years after Salman Rushdie's interview with Eleanor Wachtel during his secret visit to Canada in 1992, Writers & Company pays special tribute to the author, revisiting conversations with Rushdie in 1992 and 2015.
Date: 2009-05-31
Name(s): Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor, Yehoshua, Abraham B., 1936-2022
Description: A.B. Yehoshua is one of Israel's most prominent and influential novelists. In books like Mr. Mani and Friendly Fire, he explores historical and current tensions in Israeli society. On Sunday, he joins host Eleanor Wachtel for a discussion about some of the topics he's compelled to include- and avoid- in his works. Don't miss that conversation on Writers & Company, Sunday afternoon.
Date: 2003-11-23
Name(s): Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor, Yehoshua, Abraham B., 1936-2022
Description: A.B. Yehoshua's roots go back five generations in Jerusalem. He is one of Israel's foremost novelists and an astute observer of Israeli life. In conversation with Eleanor Wachtel, he discusses his provocative new novel, The Liberated Bride - begun in the optimism of the Oslo Accord and finished during the second Intifada.
Date: 2001-11-25
Name(s): Kennedy, A. L., Pearson, Ian, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: This week, from Scotland, the quirky, original and provocative writer, A.L. Kennedy. From the complexities of sex to the spiritual aspects of bullfighting, A.L. Kennedy pushes the boundaries of convention. Eleanor Wachtel spoke to A.L. Kennedy on stage last spring at the Manulife Literary Arts Festival in Victoria.
Date: 2014-09-07
Name(s): Homes, A. M., Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Eleanor speaks with the darkly funny A.M. Homes. She talks about growing up in Washington D.C., being adopted, and how she turns the American Dream upside down in her prize-winning novel, May We Be Forgiven (2012, Viking).
Date: 1996-09-15
Name(s): Byatt, A. S. (Antonia Susan), 1936-2023, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Eleanor Wachtel talks with English novelist A.S. Byatt about fame, language, and her newest novel, Babel Tower.
Date: 1990-10-14
Name(s): Bugajski, Ryszard, Byatt, A. S. (Antonia Susan), 1936-2023, Jaffe, Chapelle, Melby, Judith, Petrie, Graham, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: READING: A.S. Byatt reads from her novel Possession: A Romance (1990, Little Brown). INTERVIEW: Byatt discusses her fiction (from London). PANEL: "The Future of Eastern European Cinema" with Polish filmmaker Ryszard Bugajski ("Interrogtion" (1989)) and film scholar Graham Petrie.
Date: 2009-05-24
Name(s): Byatt, A. S. (Antonia Susan), 1936-2023, Hastings, Sascha, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: This week on Writers & Company, Eleanor Wachtel explores the wonderful world of literature with English author A.S. Byatt, who has written her first novel in seven years - a big, ambitious, exceptionally rich story called The Children's Book. Byatt talks about the book and journeys into her personal life, sharing stories about her family, childhood, and her incredible career.
Date: 2003-11-02
Name(s): Byatt, A. S. (Antonia Susan), 1936-2023, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Eleanor Wachtel talks with A. S. Byatt this week on Writers & Company. The author of Angels and Insects and the Booker Prize-winning Possession talks about her new collection, The Little Black Book of Stories, and about the completion of a forty-year project, the Frederica Quartet.
Date: 2019-03-31
Name(s): Rabinovitch, Sandra, Taseer, Aatish, 1980-, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Author and journalist Aatish Taseer talks to Eleanor onstage in Toronto about his Indian Pakistani heritage, the impact of modernity on India today, and his new book, The Twice-Born, which explores the city of Benares, the spiritual capital of Hinduism.
Date: 1995-10-01
Name(s): Gurnah, Abdulrazak, 1948-, Mistry, Rohinton, 1952-, Scanlan, Larry, 1948-, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: From Zanzibar and England, Abdulrazak Gurnah. His last novel, Paradise, was shortlisted for England's top fiction prize - the Booker. Also, a preview of Canadian author Rohinton Mistry's novel, A Fine Balance.
Date: 2020-02-16
Name(s): Foulds, Adam, 1974-, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Award-winning British author Adam Foulds, now living in Toronto, speaks to Eleanor about his wide-ranging fiction and poetry.
Date: 2017-01-29
Name(s): Hochschild, Adam, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Eleanor speaks with American historian and journalist, Adam Hochschild. The author of the groundbreaking bestseller King Leopold's Ghost has a powerful new book, Spain in Our Hearts - about American volunteers in the Spanish Civil War.
Date: 2003-09-21
Name(s): Nicolson, Adam, 1957-, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: This week on Writers and Company, host Eleanor Wachtel talks with Adam Nicolson, the author of God's Secretaries: The Making of the King James Bible. The King James Bible required "something approaching 350 scholar-years" to complete. In God's Secretaries, Adam Nicolson takes on the daunting task of explaining how that work was done.
