Date: 1993-12-19
Name(s): Gallant, Mavis, Godfrey, Lisa, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Eleanor Wachtel talks with author Mavis Gallant about Montreal in the 1940s and '50s, Paris today, and her new collection of short stories called Across the Bridge. Mavis reads a story from the collection, called "Mlle. Dias de Corta."
Date: 1995-05-14
Name(s): Phillips, Jayne Anne, 1952-, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Scanlan, Larry, 1948-, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Eleanor interviews American novelist Jayne Anne Phillips. The author of Machine Dreams and Black Tickets has a haunting new novel called Shelter that takes place in and around a West Virginia girls camp in 1963.
Date: 1992-02-02
Name(s): Alexander, Paul, 1955-, Kelly, Greg, Rose, Jacqueline, Shields, Carol, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Eleanor Wachtel interviews Canadian author Carol Shields. Episode includes Shields reading from her book The Republic of Love.. Also - a Panel discussions on the life and death of American poet and novelist Sylvia Plath, with literary biographers Jacqueline Rose and Paul Alexander.
Date: 1995-02-05
Name(s): Ghosh, Amitav, 1956-, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Eleanor Wachtel interviews Indian novelist and social anthropologist Amitav Ghosh. Ghosh reads from The Shadow Lines and In an Antique Land.
Date: 1994-03-13
Name(s): Glendinning, Victoria, Proulx, Annie, Rich, Adrienne, 1929-2012, Richler, Mordecai, 1931-2001, Scanlan, Larry, 1948-, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Part I: American poet and essayist Adrienne Rich talks about poetry as a means of saving your life. Part II: Award-winning authors Victoria Glendinning, Mordecai Richler, and E. Annie Proulx talk about literary prizes.
Date: 2006-10-22
Name(s): McCall Smith, Alexander, 1948-, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Eleanor Wachtel talks with the Scottish phenomenon - Alexander McCall Smith, creator of the extraordinarily popular series, The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency , plus The Sunday Philosophy Club , 44 Scotland Street , and much more. He talks about life in Africa, the lives of his characters. He reads from his books Blue Shoes and Happiness (2006) and Dream Angus: The Celtic God of Dreams (2006).
Date: 1996-01-21
Name(s): Eco, Umberto, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: This week on Writers & Company, Eleanor speaks with Italian author and semiotician Umberto Eco. He's the author of the mediaeval detective story that became a runaway bestseller, The Name of the Rose.
Date: 2000-02-06
Name(s): Breytenbach, Breyten, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Interview with South African writer and artist Breyten Breytenbach - the man described as an Afrikaner Dante, long living in exile, and writing the finest poetry in the Boer language. Activist, prisoner, painter, and memoirist, Breytenbach is back in South Africa.
Date: 1995-05-28
Name(s): Dillard, Annie, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Featuring Pulitzer Prize-winning American author Annie Dillard. Famous for her Thoreau-like nature book - Pilgrim at Tinker Creek - and her charming memoir - An American Childhood - Annie Dillard is one of America's most-admired prose stylists.
Date: 2010-02-14
Name(s): Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor, Walbert, Kate, 1961-
Description: Kate Walbert Eleanor Wachtel in conversation with American novelist, Kate Walbert, about getting the vote, going to war, and the age of anxiety. That's all in her new novel, A Short History of Women. A Short History of Women: A Novel is published by Simon & Schuster.
Date: 1998-02-08
Name(s): Rabinovitch, Sandra, Stone, Robert, 1937-2015, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Interview with one of the strongest and most authentic voices in American fiction, Robert Stone. His award-winning novels have taken readers to political hotspots, from wartime Saigon to revolutionary Central America. His newest novel, Damascus Gate, is set in Jerusalem.
Date: 1995-01-15
Name(s): O'Brien, Tim, 1946-, Scanlan, Larry, 1948-, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Described a the best American writer of his generation, Tim O'Brien writes powerful books about the Vietnam War and its effect on the young soldiers who fought there.
Date: 1994-09-25
Name(s): Fox, Colin, Harrison, Jim, 1937-2016, Lineham, Hardee, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Eleanor Wachtel interviews American novelist, poet, and screenwriter, Jim Harrison. Well-known for his character, Brown Dog, he's been put in the same league as Hemingway, Melville, and Faulkner.
Date: 1998-01-11
Name(s): Matthiessen, Peter, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Eleanor Wachtel talks with American novelist and wilderness writer, Peter Matthiessen. From Nepal to the Florida Everglades, Matthiessen writes about paradises lost and the search for simplicity.
Date: 1999-11-14
Name(s): Schwartz, Lynne Sharon, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: An interview with American novelist Lynne Sharon Schwartz. From Leaving Brooklyn and Disturbances in the Field to Ruin by Reading, Schwartz writes with wit, insight, and candour about modern life.
