Date: 2014-01-26
Name(s): McDermott, Alice, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: This week, Eleanor Wachtel speaks with American novelist Alice McDermott. She evokes the Irish-Catholic world of early 20th century Brooklyn with extraordinary artfulness in her latest book, Someone.
Date: 2004-11-07
Name(s): Godfrey, Lisa, Munro, Alice, 1931-2024, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: This week on Writers and Company, host Eleanor Wachtel talks with Alice Munro - described as "Canada's Chekhov", "Canada's Flaubert" - you name it: a wonderful story-teller with a new book, Runaway, which is already a finalist for the 2004 Governor General's Literary Awards and winner of the Giller Prize.
Date: 1990-12-09
Name(s): Munro, Alice, 1931-2024, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: READING: Alice Munro reads from "Friend of My Youth" from the collection of the same name (1990, McClelland & Stewart). INTERVIEW: Munro discusses her fiction. READING: Munro reads from "Apples & Oranges," from Friend of my Youth.
Date: 1997-06-01
Name(s): Ellis, Alice Thomas, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Today on Writers & Company, one of England's most witty, engaging, and idiosyncratic novelists - Alice Thomas Ellis. Ellis is master of a genre all her own - the supernatural comedy of manners. Her newest book, set in Wales, is called Fairy Tale.
Date: 2021-05-02
Name(s): Bechdel, Alison, 1960-, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: The award-winning American cartoonist Alison Bechdel talks to Eleanor about her new book — a smart, quirky and deeply personal exploration of her lifelong love of exercise and how it intersects with her creativity.
Date: 1994-01-23
Name(s): Bolger, Dermot, 1959-, Doyle, Roddy, 1958-, Foster, R. F. (Robert Fitzroy), 1949-, Scanlan, Larry, 1948-, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: A reading by Roddy Doyle, from his book Paddy Clarke, Ha Ha Ha.. Also - a discussion with writer and editor Dermot Bolger and historian Roy Foster about the myths and changes in Irish literature.
Date: 2006-06-11
Name(s): Goodman, Allegra, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: This week on Writers and Company, host Eleanor Wachtel talks with American writer Allegra Goodman. The author of The Family Markowitz and Kaaterskill Falls probes science and morality in her latest novel, Intuition.
Date: 1992-03-22
Name(s): Handler, Richard, 1950-, Kelly, Greg, Ozick, Cynthia, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: A special program devoted to the American writer, Cynthia Ozick - a woman who infuses her fiction and essays with intellectual passion and brilliance. Ozick reads from two of her works. (Please note: the audio cuts out from 31:19-31:25)
Date: 2015-09-13
Name(s): Franzen, Jonathan, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Our 25th season begins with American writer Jonathan Franzen. Dubbed "The Great American Novelist," he created a stir some years ago with his novel The Corrections. His latest blockbuster is called Purity.
Date: 2016-10-09
Name(s): Rabinovitch, Sandra, Smith, Lee, 1944-, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: From the Appalachian South and the mountains of Virginia, American author Lee Smith. Her latest novel, Guests on Earth, was inspired by Zelda Fitzgerald. And she has a new memoir, Dimestore, about the people and places that inspired her fiction.
Date: 1994-03-27
Name(s): Scanlan, Larry, 1948-, Theroux, Paul, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Eleanor interviews American writer Paul Theroux, who started the modern boom in travel writing almost twenty years ago with The Great Railway Bazaar: By Train through Asia. A prolific novelist as well, Theroux has just released his twentieth book of fiction, Millroy the Magician.
Date: 2002-01-20
Name(s): Fox, Paula, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Eleanor Wachtel speaks with the American novelist and children's book author, Paula Fox. She talks about her own extraordinary childhood in her memoir, Borrowed Finery.
Date: 2011-10-23
Name(s): Banks, Russell, 1940-2023, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: On Writers & Company this week American writer Russell Banks, described by the New York Times as "the most compassionate fiction writer working today." His new novel, Lost Memory of Skin explores the marginal and the outsider with grit and humour.
Date: 2006-01-15
Name(s): Just, Ward S., Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: This week on Writers and Company, host Eleanor Wachtel talks with American writer Ward Just. Just was a well-known journalist in the Sixties, covering politics and later the Vietnam War. After recovering from wounds suffered in Vietnam, Just turned from journalism to fiction. He's been described as "America's most under-appreciated writer" for his novels, which look both at personal and political lives of its characters.
Date: 1997-11-30
Name(s): Kazin, Alfred, 1915-1998, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Interview with one of America's great men of letters - critic and memoirist Alfred Kazin. Fifty-five years ago he published his groundbreaking book, On Native Grounds. His latest is called God and the American Writer.
