Date: 2011-10-30
Name(s): Eugenides, Jeffrey, Gilbert, Sarah, 1967-, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: This week, Eleanor speaks with American novelist Jeffrey Eugenides. The author of Middlesex and The Virgin Suicides, has a brand new book - his first in almost ten years - about contemporary romance. It's called The Marriage Plot.
Date: 1998-11-15
Name(s): Harrison, Jim, 1937-2016, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Interview with American poet, novelist, and screenwriter Jim Harrison. The author of Wolf: A False Memoir, Legends of the Fall, and The Woman Lit by Fireflies has a new novel called The Road Home.
Date: 1996-04-14
Name(s): Irving, John, 1942-, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: This week on Writers & Company - American novelist John Irving. Ever since his book The World According to Garp, Irving is famous for his zany, ambitious, and complex books. His newest book, a memoir, is called memoir The Imaginary Girlfriend.
Date: 1994-06-19
Name(s): Price, Reynolds, 1933-2011, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Eleanor interviews American novelist, short story writer, poet, playwright, essayist,and teacher Reynolds Price. Price's newest book, A Whole New Life, is about a Southern man of letters confronting spinal cancer.
Date: 1996-02-18
Name(s): Gass, William H., 1924-2017, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Eleanor interviews American novelist, essayist, and critic, William Gass. One of America's most distinguished senior men of letters. His newest novel - The Tunnel - is a provocative meditation on evil, history, and the sheer exuberance of language.
Date: 2020-06-07
Name(s): Brown, Jericho, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: The winner of the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, Jericho Brown, talks to Eleanor Wachtel about the legacy of racial injustice and his award-winning collection, The Tradition.
Date: 2006-01-29
Name(s): Moody, Rick, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: This week on Writers and Company, host Eleanor Wachtel talks with the chronicler of disaffected families, American writer Rick Moody. The author of The Ice Storm and Purple America has an ambitious new novel called The Diviners.
Date: 2001-01-21
Name(s): Chaudhuri, Amit, 1962-, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Eleanor Wachtel interviews Indian author Amit Chaudhuri. At 38, Amit Chaudhuri has already won prizes for his gentle, evocative novels, A Strange and Sublime Address and Afternoon Raag. His latest book is A New World.
Date: 2008-11-09
Name(s): Ghosh, Amitav, 1956-, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: This week, from India and New York, Amitav Ghosh. His new novel, Sea of Poppies - shortlisted for the 2008 Man Booker Prize - goes to the heart of the British Empire, with a tale of intrigue and romance set on the eve of the Opium Wars. Sea of Poppies is published by Viking Canada.
Date: 2018-10-07
Name(s): Kumar, Amitava, 1963-, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: The journalist and novelist talked to Eleanor Wachtel about his new book - Immigrant, Montana - which blends fiction and autobiography in a story about a young Indian man navigating college life in the United States.
Date: 2021-10-17
Name(s): Rabinovitch, Sandra, Towles, Amor, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Amor Towles, the bestselling American author of A Gentleman in Moscow, joins Eleanor Wachtel to talk about his new novel, The Lincoln Highway - an adventurous road story set in the 1950s. *Note: The audio for this episode was recorded during the Covid-19 lockdown and contains occasional low-level equipment-related distortion.
Date: 2023-01-15
Name(s): Liptrot, Amy, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Amy Liptrot writes about extremes - from the rugged environment of Scotland's Orkney Islands, where she grew up, to her struggles with alcoholism while navigating London's raucous party scene. Her 2015 memoir, The Outrun, won praise and prizes for its vivid evocation of the natural world on Orkney, to which Liptrot returned after spending time in rehab. Her new book, The Instant, focuses on urban wildlife and the heartbreak of a failed romance during a year spent in Berlin.
Date: 2013-12-08
Name(s): Stinson, Mary (Producer), Tan, Amy, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Eleanor speaks with Amy Tan about her gripping new novel, The Valley of Amazement - her first in eight years. The book revolves around the world of the courtesan in early 20th century Shanghai.
Date: 2006-12-10
Name(s): Blunt, Giles, Carofiglio, Gianrico, 1961-, Larsson, Åsa, 1966-, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor, Welsh, Louise, 1965-
Description: This week on Writers and Company, host Eleanor Wachtel talks with four writers about their own work and their favourite mysteries or thrillers, past and present. From Italy, Gianrico Carofiglio. from Sweden, Åsa Larsson. from Scotland, Louise Welsh. and from Canada, Giles Blunt.
Date: 2012-12-02
Name(s): Jacobson, Howard, Kennedy, A. L., Loe, Erlend, 1969-, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: This week, Eleanor Wachtel brings together an international panel of writers to discuss the lighter side of dark humour in their work. With Howard Jacobson from England, A.L. Kennedy from Scotland, and from Norway, Erlend Loe.
