Date: 2017-06-25
Name(s): Rabinovitch, Sandra, Roy, Arundhati, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: From New Delhi, India - award-winning novelist Arundhati Roy. Twenty years after her Booker Prize-winning, debut novel, The God of Small Things, she's back with a new book - The Ministry of Utmost Happiness - which explores gender identity, nationalism, Kashmiri independence, and many forms of both violence and love.
Date: 1997-10-12
Name(s): Roy, Arundhati, Sadiq, Laara, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: An interview with Indian author Arundhati Roy. She talks about her rich and sensuous novel, The God of Small Things, which is nominated for the Booker Prize. (Update: Roy won the 1997 Booker Prize for this novel).
Date: 2004-05-23
Name(s): Chong, Denise, Irani, Anosh, Mukherjee, Bharati, Ozeki, Ruth, 1956-, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Eleanor Wachtel talks with four literary pioneers, or as it sometimes seems, archeologists this week as Writers & Company marks Asian Heritage Month. Denise Chong, Anosh Irani, Bharati Mukherjee and Ruth Ozeki, recorded in a lively Panel discussions recorded at the CBC in Vancouver, dig up family secrets and reconfigure the past as well as the future.
Date: 1990-11-04
Name(s): Kelman, Suanne, 1949-, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Thomas, Audrey, 1935-, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: INTERVIEW: Audrey Thomas discusses her fiction. READING: Thomas reads her story "Blue Spanish Eyes" from the collection The Wild Blue Yonder (1990, Viking Penguin). REPORT: Suanne Kelman looks at new books of miscellanea: That Reminds Me: Canada's Authors Relive Their Most Embarrassing Moments, edited by Marta Kurc (1990, General), Rotten Rejections: a Literary Companion by Andre Bernard (1990, Penguin), and Curses, Broiled Again!: the Hottest Urban Legends Going by Jan Harold Brunvand (1990,…
Date: 1999-11-21
Name(s): Stinson, Mary (Producer), Thomas, Audrey, 1935-, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Eleanor Wachtel talks with British Columbia writer Audrey Thomas, who tells an extraordinary tale of an Orkney woman who disguises herself as a man and signs on to work at a Hudson's Bay Company post in 1806. The novel is called Isobel Gunn.
Date: 2006-12-03
Name(s): Hughes, Robert, 1938-2012, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: This week on Writers and Company, host Eleanor Wachtel talks with the wide-ranging art critic and social historian Robert Hughes. The Australian writer has just written a memoir, Things I Didn't Know.
Date: 2008-05-11
Name(s): James, Clive, 1939-2019, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Get a "crash-course in civilization" this week on Writers & Company. Eleanor Wachtel talks with the versatile and witty Clive James - critic, novelist, essayist, memoirist, poet and TV host. As the New Yorker put it, "Clive James is a brilliant bunch of guys."
Date: 2000-09-24
Name(s): Malouf, David, 1934-, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: From Australia, the award-winning writer, David Malouf. The author of Remembering Babylon and The Conversations at Curlow Creek has a new book of stories called Dream Stuff.
Date: 2012-12-09
Name(s): Jones, Gail, 1955-, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: On this week's program: Australian writer Gail Jones. Her quietly powerful novels look at memory, loss, and Australia's colonial past. She tells Eleanor Wachtel why she chose Sydney's Circular Quay as the focal point for her novel, 'Five Bells.' It's a historic site that's become a major tourist attraction, with the Sydney Opera House and the Harbour Bridge. But there are many layers beneath the Quay's surface.
Date: 2009-12-13
Name(s): London, Joan, 1948-, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: This week, a conversation with the subtle and surprising Australian writer, Joan London. From her popular, prize-winner, Gilgamesh, to her latest novel, The Good Parents her language is simple and strong, and her situations haunting. The Good Parents is published by Publishers Group Canada.
Date: 1992-03-01
Name(s): Kelly, Greg, Marr, David, Wachtel, Eleanor, White, Patrick, 1912-1990
Description: Australian Writers Series, episode 1: Our series begins with the life and works of Patrick White, the only Australian to have won the Nobel Prize in literature. White died in 1990. Eleanor Wachtel interviews his biographer, David Marr. The episode includes rare recorded interviews with Patrick White himself and a reading from White's novel The Eye of the Storm, narrated by Barry Baldaro.
Date: 1992-03-08
Name(s): Grenville, Kate, 1950-, Jolley, Elizabeth, 1923-2007, Kelly, Greg, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Australian Writers Series, episode 2: Sydney author Kate Grenville turns fact into fiction and inserts women into the history of Australia in her novel Joan Makes History; Then, from Perth - novelist Elizabeth Jolley harks back to a childhood in England and life in the Australian bush.
Date: 1992-03-15
Name(s): Carey, Peter, 1943-, Garner, Helen, 1942-, Kelly, Greg, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Australian Writers Series, episode 3: To wrap up the series on Australia, Eleanor interviews two prize-winning Australian Authors. Helen Garner talks about drugs, communes, and angels, and her new novel Cosmo Cosmolino. Peter Carey talks about fear, taxes, and angels, and his new book, The Tax Inspector. Both Authors read from their novels.
Date: 2011-04-10
Name(s): Fry, Stephen, 1957-, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: The dynamic and versatile actor, writer and comedian, Stephen Fry. Dubbed "the patron saint of British intelligence," Fry is funny and dazzlingly honest. He's famous for his starring role in the movie about Oscar Wilde, for his enormously successful Jeeves and Wooster with his friend, Hugh Laurie, and for Blackadder with Rowan Atkinson. He writes about all this in his new memoir, The Fry Chronicles.
Date: 2005-05-08
Name(s): Greenblatt, Stephen, 1943-, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: This week on Writers & Company: Eleanor Wachtel talks with literary historian Stephen Greenblatt about his unusual angle on Shakespeare in his bestseller, Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare.
