Date: 2009-02-15
Name(s): Buruma, Ian, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: This week on Writers & Company, Eleanor Wachtel talks with Dutch writer Ian Buruma - one of the finest literary journalists in the world. He's a roving intellect and subtle social commentator whose eclectic titles include: Inventing Japan, The China Lover, and Murder in Amsterdam: Liberal Europe, Islam and the Limits of Tolerance.
Date: 1998-02-01
Name(s): Rabinovitch, Sandra, Saʻdāwī, Nawāl, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Interview with Egypt's most celebrated woman author, Nawāl Saʻdāwī (Nawal El Saadawi). A psychiatrist, feminist, novelist, iconoclast, she's been described as the Simore de Beauvoir of the Arab world. This episode recorded live on stage at the Festival of Authors.
Date: 1995-02-26
Name(s): Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor, Warner, Marina, 1946-
Description: This week, Eleanor Wachtel interviews talks with the English novelist, historian, and critic, Marina Warner about her new book, From the Beast to the Blonde: On Fairy Tales and their Tellers. Plus. two stories - "Tongue Meat" and "The Six Swans" - read by Barbara Budd
Date: 2002-03-17
Name(s): Frayn, Michael, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Eleanor Wachtel speaks with English playwright and novelist Michael Frayn. From his award-winning farce, Noises Off, to Copenhagen, his provocative encounter between physicists Niels Bohr and Werner Heisenberg; from the tragi-comic, Headlong to his latest novel, Spies, Frayn is witty and intelligent.
Date: 2010-02-07
Name(s): Hare, David, 1947-, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Eleanor Wachtel speaks with the English playwright and director, David Hare. From post-war disillusion in Plenty to the invasion of Iraq in Stuff Happens and The Vertical Hour, David Hare has always remained socially engaged. His newest play is The Power of Yes: A Dramatist Seeks to Understand the Financial Crisis. Most of David Hare's plays and books of essays have been published by Faber & Faber. His films are available on DVD.
Date: 1995-12-17
Name(s): Carpelan, Bo, 1926-2011, Hartmann, Ron, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: An interview with Finnish poet and novelist Bo Carpelan. Considered one of the country's most respected writers, his first book of poetry was published more that 50 years ago. Carpelan talks about his poetry and his novel Axel, based on his great uncle who was a friend and inspiration to the composer Sibelius.
Date: 2016-02-21
Name(s): Barbery, Muriel, 1969-, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Eleanor Wachtel speaks with French writer Muriel Barbery, on stage at the Bluma Appel Salon at the Toronto Reference Library. The author of the international bestseller, The Elegance of the Hedgehog, has a new novel called The Life of Elves. It's about two extraordinary children and the power of nature and art.
Date: 1998-09-13
Name(s): Hegi, Ursula, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Eleanor Wachtel interviews German-American writer Ursula Hegi. The author of Stones From the River confronts her heritage directly in her latest non-fiction book, Tearing the Silence.
Date: 1994-03-20
Name(s): Sacks, Oliver, 1933-2015, Scanlan, Larry, 1948-, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Eleanor Wachtel interviews humanist neurologist Oliver Sacks. Supremely literate, Sacks, author of such works as Awakenings and The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, writes from a place where biology and biography intersect. This episode includes a clip from the film adaptation Awakenings (1990) with Robert De Niro and Robin Williams.
Date: 2004-01-18
Name(s): McCabe, Pat, 1955-, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: This week on Writers & Company, Eleanor Wachtel talks with Irish novelist Patrick McCabe. He's the author of the award-winning The Butcher Boy, which was made into a movie by Neil Jordan. Now McCabe has written a wild new book - Call Me the Breeze.
Date: 2008-02-24
Name(s): Hampton, Christopher, 1946-, McPherson, Conor, 1971-, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: This week on Writers and Company, host Eleanor Wachtel talks with Irish playwright Conor McPherson. The author of The Weir and Shining City has a new supernatural success with The Seafarer. One of the characters in The Seafarer who shows up at a Christmas Eve card game is in fact the devil in a more sympathetic portrayal than usual. This episode also includes excerpts from an interview with screenwriter and playwright Christopher Hampton about his play and film, Dangerous Liaisons.
Date: 2000-05-07
Name(s): Apelfeld, Aharon, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Interview with Israeli author and Holocaust survivor Aharon Apelfeld. In more than a dozen internationally acclaimed novels he evokes the sensibility of middle Europe before and after the Nazis. Apelfeld is like Elie Wiesel crossed with Kafka.
Date: 1994-10-16
Name(s): Grossman, David, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Eleanor talks with Israeli novelist and journalist David Grossman about his life and work. His latest book, The Book of Intimate Grammar, is extraordinary and disturbing.
Date: 2013-06-09
Name(s): De Luca, Erri, 1950-, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Eleanor Wachtel spoke with Italian author, Erri de Luca, at the Blue Metropolis International Literary Festival in Montreal. He's a novelist, essayist, poet, translator, screenwriter and actor. And he's the most widely read Italian author alive today.
Date: 1996-03-03
Name(s): Kincaid, Jamaica, Paley, Grace, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Host Eleanor Wachtel interviews Jamaica Kincaid about her book, The Autobiography of My Mother.. Also, Grace Paley reading "Zagrowsky Tell's" from her collection Later the Same Day (at the Toronto International Festival of Authors).
