Date: 2001-11-04
Name(s): Franzen, Jonathan, Godfrey, Lisa, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Eleanor Wachtel talks with American author Jonathan Franzen about families, fashions, the future of American fiction, and his new novel - The Corrections. It's one of the biggest novels - in every respect - of the fall season.
Date: 2001-11-18
Name(s): Adler, Renata, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Eleanor Wachtel speaks with the extraordinary reporter, novelist, critic, and intellectual gadfly, Renata Adler. The author of Speedboat and Gone: the Last Days of the New Yorker has a new book called, Canaries in the Mindshaft: Essays on Politics and Media.
Date: 1995-01-08
Name(s): Khūrī, Ilyās, Scanlan, Larry, 1948-, Wachtel, Eleanor, White, Ron
Description: Today on Writers & Compnay - Lebanese intellectual and novelist Ilyās Khūrī (Elias Khoury). His books are set against war-torn Beirut and blend myth, history, and storytelling to create a surreal picture of life in modern Lebanon.
Date: 2009-11-15
Name(s): Hastings, Sascha, Herzog, Werner, 1942-, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Eleanor Wachtel speaks with one of the masters of cinema, Werner Herzog. Herzog's work ranges from the German New Wave of the late 60s to Fitzcarraldo and Grizzly Man, to his latest movie, Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans.
Date: 2001-01-14
Name(s): Athill, Diana, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Eleanor Wachtel speaks with the literary editor, Diana Athill. In a lifetime in publishing, Athill has worked with V.S. Naipaul, Phillip Roth, Jean Rhys, and other literary greats. Now she's come out with her own charming memoir, Stet.
Date: 1998-01-18
Name(s): Heilbrun, Carolyn G., 1926-2003, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Date: 2010-05-23
Name(s): Heaney, Seamus, 1939-2013, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Seamus Heaney has such a strong following that he's been nicknamed Famous Seamus. And his lectures are so popular that the crowds lining up to hear him are dubbed "Heaneyboppers". This week, Eleanor Wachtel talks with Seamus Heaney - Ireland's first Nobel Prize winning poet since Yeats. Seamus Heaney's books are published by Faber and Faber, including a new collection, The Human Chain coming out this fall.
Date: 1995-11-05
Name(s): Berger, John, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Novelist and art critic John Berger radicalised a generation with his provocative television series and book, Ways of Seeing. He's written about photography and painting as well as peasant life in the French Alps. His newest novel, To the Wedding, looks at the AIDS crisis.
Date: 1996-02-11
Name(s): Johnston, Jennifer, 1930-, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Eleanor Wachtel interviews one of Ireland's finest Authors, Jennifer Johnston. She writes about familial relationships and unexpected friendships, set against the violence of Ireland.
Date: 2010-09-19
Name(s): Oz, Amos, 1939-2018, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: This week on Writers & Company, Eleanor Wachtel speaks with one of Israel's most celebrated and outspoken writers, Amos Oz. He has rooted his writing in the troubled history of his homeland. Newsweek writes of him: " Eloquent, humane, even religious in the deepest sense, [Oz] emerges as a kind of Zionist Orwell: a complex man obsessed with simple decency and determined above all to tell the truth, regardless of whom it offends."
Date: 1994-12-11
Name(s): Kapuściński, Ryszard, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Eleanor talks with extraordinary Polish author Ryszard Kapuściński, a chronicler of 20th-century war and revolution. Kapuściński brings a peculiarly personal and passionate flavour to his reportage.
Date: 2005-04-03
Name(s): Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor, Zagajewski, Adam, 1945-2021
Description: This week on Writers and Company, host Eleanor Wachtel talks with award-winning Polish poet and essayist Adam Zagajewski, a man who champions ardour and joy over irony. They talk about his life, work and growing up in postwar Poland.
Date: 2003-11-09
Name(s): Stinson, Mary (Producer), Tremblay, Michel, 1942-, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Eleanor Wachtel talks with one of the most influential writers in Québec - Michel Tremblay. Over more than 35 years, he's produced a series of plays, a cycle of novels, a trio of memoirs - as well as translations, song lyrics, and more.
Date: 2006-04-23
Name(s): Reichl, Ruth, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: This week on Writers and Company, host Eleanor Wachtel talks with the queen of food writing, Ruth Reichl. Former restaurant critic of the New York Times, the editor of Gourmet Magazine, and the author of three memoirs, starting with Tender at the Bone, Reichl is remarkably candid about her relationship with food and with her mother. Her new memoir is Garlic and Sapphires: The Secret Life of a Critic in Disguise.
Date: 1991-11-03
Name(s): Anniko, Tom, Gould, Stephen Jay, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Shields, Carol, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Part I: American science essayist Stephen Jay Gould talks about his latest collection, Bully for Brontosaurus; Part II: A special literary feature - Canadian fiction writer Carol Shields reads her story "Keys."
