Date: 2005-03-20
Name(s): Levy, Andrea, 1956-2019, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Eleanor Wachtel talks with Jamaican English novelist Andrea Levy this week on Writers and Company. Her latest book, Small Island, won both the Whitbread Award and the Orange Prize.
Date: 2017-05-07
Name(s): Desai, Anita, 1937-, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: In front of a live audience in Montréal, at the Blue Metropolis International Literary Festival, Eleanor speaks with the festival's Grand Prix winner, Anita Desai, about her life and the award-winning books she's written over more than fifty years.
Date: 2004-09-12
Name(s): Patchett, Ann, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: This week on Writers and Company, host Eleanor Wachtel talks with Ann Patchett, the award-winning author of the novel Bel Canto. Now, Patchett has turned her hand from fiction to a moving memoir of female friendship in Truth & Beauty, the story of her friendship with poet Lucy Grealy, who died of an accidental heroin overdose in 2002.
Date: 2011-09-18
Name(s): Carson, Anne, 1950-, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: This week on Writers and Company, Canadian poet, essayist, Greek and Latin scholar, and librettist, Anne Carson. The author of Autobiography of Red and The Beauty of the Husband has produced yet another surprising and haunting book, called Nox. It's an elegy to her brother, an epitaph as she calls it, a notebook of memories and fragments. A moving reflection on absence. As she writes in her first entry: I wanted to fill my elegy with light of all kinds. But death makes us stingy. There is…
Date: 2008-02-03
Name(s): Enright, Anne, 1962-, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: This week on Writers and Company, host Eleanor Wachtel talks with the winner of this year's Man Booker Prize, Irish author Anne Enright. They talk about her spiky and original novel, The Gathering which tells of a woman being pulled back into her family circle upon her brother's death.
Date: 2015-02-22
Name(s): Stinson, Mary (Producer), Tyler, Anne, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Eleanor Wachtel speaks with American author Anne Tyler. In a rare interview, the much-loved chronicler of families talks about her life, her work, and her new novel - A Spool of Blue Thread.
Date: 2005-12-11
Name(s): Baddiel, David, Oyeyemi, Helen, Prose, Francine, 1947-, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: It's all about books that changed a life this week on Writers & Company. Host Eleanor Wachtel chairs a panel at the International Festival of Authors, at which England's David Baddiel, Nigeria's Helen Oyeyemi and American author Francine Prose talk about books that have had a pivotal impact on their careers and their lives.
Date: 2019-11-24
Name(s): McCarten, Anthony, 1961-, Swailes, Katy, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Anthony McCarten - the award-winning screenwriter of Bohemian Rhapsody, Darkest Hour and The Theory of Everything - talks to Eleanor Wachtel about his new movie, The Two Popes.
Date: 2009-06-21
Name(s): Adiga, Aravind, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Man Booker Prize winner Aravind Adiga sits down with Writers & Company host Eleanor Wachtel for an enlightening literary discussion. They explore his winning novel The White Tiger, a relentlessly bleak, though surprisingly comic, look at modern India.
Date: 2004-04-25
Name(s): Martínez, Tomás Eloy, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Writers & Company kicks off a special series this week called "Argentina: The Unofficial Stories." In this series, Eleanor Wachtel visits Argentina's capital, Buenos Aires. It's a city of remarkable creative energy, uniquely European in character, home of Borges, the tango, and some of the most interesting Latin American writers at work today. If you've ever wondered what happened to the literary "boom" in Latin America - that dazzling explosion of innovative writing that began in the 1960s…
Date: 2004-05-02
Name(s): Bortnik, Aída, Cozarinsky, Edgardo, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Week 2 in the special series "Argentina: The Unofficial Stories." This week, screenplay writer Aída Bortnik and fiction writer/filmmaker Eduardo Cozarinsky. Aída Bortnik: Born in 1938 Buenos Aires, dramatist Aída Bortnik is best known for her screenplay of The Official Story, which won the Oscar for Best Foreign Film in 1985, opening the world's eyes to one of the darkest secrets of the "Dirty War." Originally a playwright, she is also recognized for her involvement with the legendary Open…
Date: 2004-05-09
Name(s): Rabinovitch, Sandra, Valenzuela, Luisa, 1938-, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Week 3 in the special series "Argentina: The Unofficial Stories." This week, Luisa Valenzuela. Born in 1938 Buenos Aires, Luisa Valenzuela grew up with mixed cultural influences, but her work reflects a distinctly Latin American sensibility. She's lived in Paris, New York, and Mexico, and her provocative fiction has been widely translated and studied. Valenzuela's most famous novel, The Lizard's Tail: A Novel (1983, Farrar, Straus, Giroux), is a fictional autobiography of the "sorcerer," José…
Date: 2004-05-16
Name(s): Caparrós, Martín, 1957-, Martínez, Guillermo, 1962-, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Week 4 in the special series "Argentina: The Unofficial Stories." This week, Martín Caparrós and Guillermo Martínez. Martín Caparrós: Born in 1957 in Buenos Aires, Caparrós is one of Argentina's most outspoken and adventurous writers. His offbeat fiction, essays, and travel chronicles - which have taken him not only all over the world but also into the "hinterland" of Argentina - reflect a curiosity and passion that lead him down unusual paths. Caparrós' most important nonfiction work is La…
Date: 1999-04-11
Name(s): Dorfman, Ariel, Miller, Arthur, 1915-2005, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Pt. 1: From Chile and the United States, Ariel Dorfman. The author of Death and the Maiden talks about his latest book, Heading South, Looking North; Pt. 2: American playwright Arthur Miller reads from his brand new unpublished memoir.
Date: 2019-09-15
Name(s): Rabinovitch, Sandra, Shapton, Leanne, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Artist and author Leanne Shapton talks to Eleanor Wachtel about her evocative new work, Guestbook: Ghost Stories, and how the stuff of everyday life inspires her uniquely creative vision.
