Date: 2009-06-14
Name(s): Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi, 1977-, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: This week, Eleanor Wachtel speaks with the sensational young prize-winner, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. The author of Half of a Yellow Sun has a new book of stories called The Thing Around Your Neck.
Date: 2016-01-24
Name(s): Qashu, Sayed, 1975-, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Eleanor speaks with Arab-Israeli novelist and essayist Sayed Kashua about his new book, Native: Dispatches from an Israeli-Palestinian Life. It's a humorous, and at times painful collection of anecdotes about life as an Israeli-Palestinian.
Date: 2012-09-23
Name(s): Otsuka, Julie, 1962-, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: This week, the award-winning Japanese-American novelist, Julie Otsuka. Her latest book, The Buddha in the Attic, is a poetic evocation of the life of the Japanese 'picture brides' who came to America a century ago, and married strangers halfway around the world on the basis of a photograph. The book begins with the powerful and surprising line, "On the boat we were mostly virgins."
Date: 2019-06-16
Name(s): Antrobus, Raymond, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: British-Jamaican poet Raymond Antrobus spoke to Eleanor Wachtel about his prize-winning new collection, The Perseverance, which explores his complicated relationship with his late father and his experience growing up deaf.
Date: 2011-01-16
Name(s): Hirsi Ali, Ayaan, 1969-, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: From Somalia, the Netherlands and the United States, activist Ayaan Hirsi Ali. The author of the memoir Infidel has another provocative memoir called Nomad. Nomad is published by Knopf Canada.
Date: 2020-10-25
Name(s): Akhtar, Ayad, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and novelist Ayad Akhtar spoke with Eleanor Wachtel about his deeply personal new book, Homeland Elegies, which explores the American dream through the story of his Pakistani immigrant parents.
Date: 2023-03-26
Name(s): Adebayo, Ayobami, 1988-, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Nigerian writer Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀ made a stunning debut in 2017 with her acclaimed first novel, Stay With Me. Focusing on a young couple's struggles with infertility and cultural tradition, the novel won the Prix Les Afriques, was shortlisted for the Baileys Prize for Women's Fiction and named a best book of the year by the Guardian and Wall Street Journal. Her new novel, A Spell of Good Things, examines themes of power, politics and poverty in modern-day Nigeria, interweaving the stories of…
Date: 1997-01-12
Name(s): Kingsolver, Barbara, McIlveen, Nancy, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Today, popular American novelist Barbara Kingsolver, who tackles serious issues in a most entertaining way in books like The Bean Trees, Pigs in Heaven, and High Tide in Tucson.
Date: 1996-01-28
Name(s): Stinson, Mary (Producer), Unsworth, Barry, 1930-2012, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Eleanor speaks with Booker Prize-winning English author Barry Unsworth. He's a socially and politically engaged writer and a captivating storyteller. The author of Pascali's Island and Sacred Hunger has a new novel called Morality Play, set in 14th century England.
Date: 2011-01-23
Name(s): Stinson, Mary (Producer), Unsworth, Barry, 1930-2012, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: This week, Eleanor Wachtel travels to Italy to speak with England`s Booker prize-winning author, Barry Unsworth. A socially and politically engaged writer, a captivating storyteller - and the author of Sacred Hunger - has a new novel called Land of Marvels. Land of Marvels is published by Doubleday and The Ruby in Her Naval is available in paperback from Norton.
Date: 2012-10-14
Name(s): Lerner, Ben, 1979-, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Eleanor Wachtel speaks with American poet and novelist Ben Lerner. His recent book, Leaving the Atocha Station is being compared to the work of Fernando Pessoa and Albert Camus. It's the 33-year-old poet's first novel, and was named one of the best books of the year by many publications, including The New Yorker, The Guardian, and The New Statesman.
Date: 2021-03-07
Name(s): Macintyre, Ben, 1963-, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: British writer and journalist Ben Macintyre captures the high-stakes world of espionage in his bestselling nonfiction thrillers. His latest book, Agent Sonya: Moscow's Most Daring Wartime Spy, centres on a German communist who flew under the radar as a housewife and mother of three in the almost exclusively male world of espionage.
Date: 2003-06-22
Name(s): Allen, Benedict, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: On The Faber Book of Exploration. Eleanor Wachtel talks with its editor, Benedict Allen, about seventh-century transatlantic voyages, about New Guinea and initiation rites, about his favourite camel, and the romance of the desert.
Date: 2020-01-19
Name(s): Evaristo, Bernardine, 1959-, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Eleanor Wachtel speaks with English author Bernardine Evaristo. The co-winner of the 2019 Man Booker Prize talks about her ambitious novel, Girl, Woman, Other, and about growing up in a large, mixed-race family in London in the 1960s and '70s.
Date: 2001-09-23
Name(s): Bainbridge, Beryl, 1932-2010, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Eleanor Wachtel interviews Beryl Bainbridge, a writer with a certain working class Liverpudlian grimness, tempered by gruesome comedy. The author of Master Georgie and Every Man for Himself has written a new novel about Samuel Johnson called According to Queeney.
