Date: 1998-12-06
Name(s): Phillips, Adam, 1954-, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: An interview with a remarkable psychoanalytic thinker - Adam Phillips. The author of On Kissing, Tickling, and Being Bored is interested in nothing less than how to live at the end of the 20th century.
Date: 2010-01-31
Name(s): Stinson, Mary (Producer), Thorpe, Adam, 1956-, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: An interview with Adam Thorpe. From the Middle Ages to the 21st century, the legend of Robin Hood has fascinated generations. England's Adam Thorpe subverts the myth in his new novel, Hodd.
Date: 2021-02-07
Name(s): Stinson, Mary (Producer), Tomine, Adrian, 1974-, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Acclaimed cartoonist and illustrator Adrian Tomine talks to Eleanor Wachtel about his latest book, a graphic memoir that explores his childhood and considers how solitude has shaped his life.
Date: 1994-05-15
Name(s): Okri, Ben, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Scanlan, Larry, 1948-, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Episode two of the series with African Authors, featuring Nigerian-British poet and novelist Ben Okri. He won Britain's top fiction prize - the Booker - for The Famished Road. Now he has a new novel called Songs of Enchantment.
Date: 1994-05-22
Name(s): Mapanje, Jack, Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʼo, 1938-, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Scanlan, Larry, 1948-, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: African Authors series, episode 3: Eleanor talks with Malawian poet Jack Mapanje, who was seized and imprisoned without trial. Now he lives in exile and the poems he wrote in his head during his imprisonment fill his new collection. Also, a reading by Kenyan novelist Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o.
Date: 1994-05-29
Name(s): Emecheta, Buchi, Mugo, Micere Githae, Ngcobo, Lauretta G., Scanlan, Larry, 1948-, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: More from Africa: Lauretta Ngcobo from South Africa and Micere Mugo from Kenya talk about living in exile. Nigerian writer Buchi Emecheta discusses her last novel - her 19th book - Kehinde.
Date: 1994-06-12
Name(s): Crail, Archie, 1948-, Magona, Sindiwe, Scanlan, Larry, 1948-, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Winding up the series on African Authors, Eleanor interviews two authors from South Africa. Sindiwe Magona writes about growing up on the Cape flats and life in the townships. And Archie Crail - a Regina writer - was an activist with the African National Congress.
Date: 2016-11-20
Name(s): Mabanckou, Alain, 1966-, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: From the Vancouver Writers Festival, Eleanor speaks with French Congolese writer, Alain Mabanckou. Imaginative and original, his books are charming explorations of childhood, family and country.
Date: 2019-06-24
Name(s): Hemon, Aleksandar, 1964-, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: The Bosnian-American writer talked to Eleanor Wachtel about his two new works, My Parents and This Does Not Belong to You, which explore his parents' memories of displacement, his own identity and the very nature of storytelling itself.
Date: 2008-09-07
Name(s): Hemon, Aleksandar, 1964-, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: This week on Writers and Company - from Sarajevo and Chicago - the remarkable Bosnian-American writer Aleksandar Hemon. Host Eleanor Wachtel talks to him about his latest novel, The Lazarus Project, which crosses between history and fiction, past and present, Europe and America.
Date: 2021-04-11
Name(s): Christofi, Alex, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: To mark the bicentenary of the birth of Fyodor Dostoevsky, Eleanor speaks to British writer and editor Alex Christofi. His compelling new book takes a creative approach to the eventful and often tragic life of the Russian writer.
Date: 2018-03-04
Name(s): Smith, Ali, 1962-, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Eleanor talks to the award-winning Scottish writer Ali Smith about her recent books, Autumn and Winter, which marked the launch of a new series inspired by the seasons.
Date: 2005-10-16
Name(s): Smith, Ali, 1962-, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: This week on Writers and Company, host Eleanor Wachtel talks with Scottish author Ali Smith. Ali Smith's newest novel, The Accidental, was short-listed for the Booker this year. The novel is a mystery, with plenty of good twists and turns, and looks at 'accident' as 'coincidence,' and at how we make stories out of the accidents in our lives.
Date: 2014-10-05
Name(s): Smith, Ali, 1962-, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Scottish writer Ali Smith said "that it is the duty of both readers and writers to 'be as open as a book, and alive to the life in language.'" Her dazzling new novel, How to Be Both (2014, Hamish Hamilton) has landed her a third short-listing for the Man Booker prize.
Date: 1996-05-12
Name(s): Berger, John, Hoffman, Alice, McIlveen, Nancy, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Part I: The popular American novelist Alice Hoffman - she brings magic realism to suburbia and passion to the everyday in her new novel Practical Magic. Part II: In honour of Mother's Day, John Berger reads "Mother" from his collection Keeping a Rendezvous.
