Date: 2003-12-07
Name(s): Cheney-Coker, Syl, 1945-, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Eleanor Wachtel talks with Sierra Leonean poet and novelist Syl Cheney-Coker this week on Writers & Company. Drawing on his Creole heritage, with its unique mix of influences, his work explores his experience of exile and his relationship to his country.
Date: 2000-03-19
Name(s): Coetzee, J. M., 1940-, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Eleanor Wachtel heads to Cape Town, South Africa, to talk with multi-award winning author J.M. Coetzee. Coetzee reads from his Booker Prize-winning novel Disgrace.
Date: 1994-10-30
Name(s): Gordimer, Nadine, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Nobel Prize winner Nadine Gordimer talks about the dramatic changes that have galvanised South Africa. Gordimer reads from her novel None to Accompany Me At the Toronto International Festival of Authors.
Date: 1997-10-26
Name(s): Selzer, Richard, 1928-2016, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: An interview with American essayist and fiction writer Richard Selzer. A surgeon who ultimately exchanged his scalpel for a pen, he writes about medicine, surgery, and the human body in a new and startling way.
Date: 2016-10-23
Name(s): Rabinovitch, Sandra, Sjöberg, Fredrik, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Eleanor speaks with Swedish naturalist and cultural critic, Fredrik Sjöberg. His delightful, three-volume memoir about collecting hoverflies received a 2016 "Ig Nobel" Prize - awarded to unusual achievements that make people laugh... then think.
Date: 2018-10-14
Name(s): Hayes, Terrance, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: This week, Eleanor speaks with award-winning African-American poet Terrance Hayes. His latest collection is called American Sonnets for my Past and Future Assassin.
Date: 2000-05-21
Name(s): Brook, Peter, 1925-2022, Feldman, Susan, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Eleanor Wachtel talks with one of the great English theatre directors, Peter Brook, about his life, the actor's craft, and producing Shakespeare's plays.
Date: 1994-05-08
Name(s): Achebe, Chinua, Scanlan, Larry, 1948-, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: For this first episode in a series of interviews with African Authors, Eleanor talks with the Nigerian-born writer Chinua Achebe. Achebe, considered to be the father of the African novel in English, is the author of the novels Things Fall Apart and Anthills of the Savannah.
Date: 1991-06-09
Name(s): Galeano, Eduardo, 1940-2015, Hophan, Gary, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Part I: An interview and readings from Uruguayan writer Eduardo Galeano. He reads three stories from his work The Book of Embraces at Harbourfront; Part 2: Eleanor talks withToronto storyteller Gary Hophan. Part III: Hophan performs his story "The Godmother of Yankee Stadium" at the Annex Theatre.
Date: 2004-05-30
Name(s): Muldoon, Paul, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: A visit with Irish poet Paul Muldoon this week on Writers & Company. Muldoon won the 2003 Pulitzer Prize, as well as the Griffin Award, for his most recent book of poems, Moy Sand and Gravel.
Date: 1991-05-05
Name(s): Cowasjee, Saros, Lish, Gordon, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: An interview with editor and fiction writer Gordon Lish, who discusses his life and work and reads from "The Death of Me" and "Mr. Goldbaum" from his collection, Mourner at the Door. Then, editor Saros Cowasjee discusses his anthology Women Writers of the Raj.
Date: 2018-11-18
Name(s): Forgách, András, 1952-, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: The Hungarian writer András Forgách's new book was inspired by a shocking revelation: his mother worked as an informant for Hungary's Communist regime, reporting on friends, family and even her own children. He joins Eleanor Wachtel on stage in Toronto.
Date: 2015-05-17
Name(s): Aciman, André, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: From Alexandria and New York, Eleanor speaks with André Aciman. His novel, Harvard Square, is an autobiographical story about an unlikely friendship between two immigrants to America.
Date: 2011-04-03
Name(s): Dubus, Andre, III, 1959-, Hastings, Sascha, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Eleanor Wachtel speaks with the American novelist, Andre Dubus III - famous for House of Sand and Fog - made into a movie, it was also an Oprah pick and National Book Award finalist. Now he has a visceral new memoir, called Townie.
Date: 1999-09-12
Name(s): Barrett, Andrea, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: An interview with American novelist Andrea Barrett. Winner of the National Book Award, Barrett brings a late 20th century sensibility to 19th century science and natural history. Her latest novel is The Voyage of the Narwhal.
