Date: 1994-10-02
Name(s): Forché, Carolyn, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Scanlan, Larry, 1948-, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Today, The Angel of History - American poet Carolyn Forché looks at 20th-century disaster and talks about how memory survives the unimaginable.
Date: 1994-09-18
Name(s): Rabinovitch, Sandra, Scanlan, Larry, 1948-, Vidal, Gore, 1925-2012, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Eleanor Wachtel talks with American writer, essayist, controversial gadfly and virtuoso writer, Gore Vidal. They discuss his life, work, and his unique perspective on American politics.
Date: 2012-04-29
Name(s): Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938-, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Joyce Carol Oates was the winner of this year's Blue Metropolis Grand Prix. The prolific American writer talks with Eleanor Wachtel onstage in Montreal about her childhood and her newest novel, Mudwoman.
Date: 1996-03-24
Name(s): Auster, Paul, 1947-2024, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Eleanor Wachtel interviews American writer Paul Auster. Quirky, erudite, and inventive, Paul Auster is a master storyteller with ever-widening audiences thanks to his movies Smoke and Blue in the Face.
Date: 1992-11-22
Name(s): Ondaatje, Michael, 1943-, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: A special episode with Michael Ondaatje, the first Canadian to win Britain's top literary prize - the Booker. Ondaatje talks about his work and reads from his award-winning novel The English Patient.
Date: 1996-04-21
Name(s): Fitzgerald, Penelope, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: This week on Writers & Company - Booker Prize-winning English writer Penelope Fitzgerald. Described as a superbly tactful novelist, she's expert at evoking other times and places. Her latest book, The Blue Flower, takes us to 18th century German Saxony.
Date: 2004-03-21
Name(s): Rabinovitch, Sandra, Scliar, Moacyr, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: This week on Writers & Company, Eleanor Wachtel talks with Brazil's Moacyr Scliar. The author of Max and the Cats and The Centaur in the Garden tells wildly imaginative stories with wit and political astuteness.
Date: 1994-10-09
Name(s): Rabinovitch, Sandra, Scanlan, Larry, 1948-, Wachtel, Eleanor, Winterson, Jeanette, 1959-
Description: Eleanor interviews one of England's most original young writers, Jeanette Winterson. The author of Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit and Written on the Body reads from two of her books - Sexing the Cherry and Art & Lies.
Date: 1995-06-18
Name(s): Birdsell, Sandra, 1942-, Scanlan, Larry, 1948-, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Featuring award-winning Canadian author Sandra Birdsell, whose work gives us a persuasively realistic picture of small town Manitoba, along with a deep humanity that allows for the possibility of grace.
Date: 2006-11-19
Name(s): Stinson, Mary (Producer), Tremblay, Michel, 1942-, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: This week on Writers and Company, host Eleanor Wachtel talks with one of Québec's most important writers, Michel Tremblay. The man's a phenomenon: playwright, novelist, translator, adaptor and screenwriter, librettist and lyricist. He's written some 57 works, including a dozen novels and 27 plays, which have been translated into 31 languages.
Date: 1991-05-12
Name(s): Johnson, William, Levine, Norman, 1923-2005, McCormack, Eric P., Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: READINGS AND INTERVIEW: Norman Levine is interviewed about his fiction and reads from "Gifts" AND "Django, Karfunkelstein, & Ross" from his short story collection, Something Happened Here. PANEL: Author Eric McCormack and forensic psychologist William Johnson discuss the "serious" treatment of violence in fiction and popular culture.
Date: 2004-09-26
Name(s): Jen, Gish, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: This week on Writers and Company, host Eleanor Wachtel talks with Chinese American writer Gish Jen. The author of Typical American and Mona in the Promised Land has a rich and compassionate new novel called The Love Wife.
Date: 2009-03-01
Name(s): Barry, Lynda, 1956-, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: This week, Writers and Company speaks with comic book artist and writer, Lynda Barry. From her alternative strip, Ernie Pook's Comeek to her soulful graphic memoir, One Hundred Demons, she's a funny, moving and brutally honest person. English novelist Nick Hornby said that Barry's stories "all contain little grenades of meaning that tend to explode just after you've read the last line."
Date: 1991-12-08
Name(s): Leonard, Elmore, 1925-2013, Ondaatje, Michael, 1943-, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Part I: American crime writer Elmore Leonard discusses his characters and the mystery/crime genre. At Harbourfront, Leonard reads two excerpts from his novel about a law-bending Florida judge, Maximum Bob; Part II: Canadian writer Michael Ondaatje talks about how movies changed his life.
Date: 1994-02-27
Name(s): Chomsky, Noam, Scanlan, Larry, 1948-, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Today - Eleanor Wachtel talks with dissident intellectual and world famous linguist, Noam Chomsky. He's known for changing the way we think about languages and political discourse in democracies.
