Date: 2022-10-02
Name(s): Backman, Fredrik, 1981-, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Swailes, Katy, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: As an awkward, anxious child, Fredrik Backman fell in love with sports and books. His latest title, The Winners, concludes his powerful Beartown trilogy, which focuses on a small town and its junior hockey club in northern Sweden. Sensitive and timely, The Winners explores the many sides of "hockey culture." Beartown has been adapted into a popular HBO series, and Backman's previous titles, Anxious People and A Man Called Ove, have also been adapted for the screen. Please note: this…
Date: 2004-12-12
Name(s): Feinstein, Adam, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: On the centenary of the birth of the Nobel Prize-winning Chilean poet, Pablo Neruda, Eleanor Wachtel talks with biographer Adam Feinstein, who has written a new biography called Pablo Neruda: A Passion for Life.
Date: 2006-05-28
Name(s): Delbanco, Andrew, 1952-, Godfrey, Lisa, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: This week on Writers and Company, host Eleanor Wachtel talks with biographer Andrew Delbanco about the deeply imaginative work and tortured life of Herman Melville, author of one of the most influential novels ever written, Moby Dick.
Date: 2009-04-05
Name(s): Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor, Wroe, Ann
Description: This week on Writers & Company, a discussion about the angel of the Romantic poets - Percy Bysshe Shelley. Eleanor Wachtel talks to England's Ann Wroe about his vision, his politics, and his poetry. Being Shelley: The Poet's Search For Himself by Ann Wroe is published in paperback by Knopf.
Date: 2011-12-11
Name(s): Stinson, Mary (Producer), Tomalin, Claire, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Charles Dickens is much in the news these days, with his 200th birthday coming up soon. Was he ever NOT talked about, though? His 1859 novel "A Tale of Two Cities" has sold over 200 million copies, and his novels and short stories have never gone out of print. He's especially big at this time of year, with the unforgettable Scrooge from A Christmas Carol portrayed by everyone from Alastair Sim to Michael Caine to Mister Magoo. Award-winning English biographer Claire Tomalin has written a new…
Date: 1991-02-24
Name(s): Bair, Deirdre, Mhlophe, Gcina, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: INTERVIEW: Biographer Deidre Bair discusses her studies of Anais Nin, Colette (both in progress) and De Beauvoir (Simone de Beauvoir: A Biography, 1990, General Pub.), from the Harbourfront International Festival of Authors. READING: South African poet and storyteller Gcina Mhlophe performs her poem "Sometime When It Rains" at the Vancouver Writers Festival. INTERVIEW: Gcina Mhlophe (includes additional readings).
Date: 1991-10-13
Name(s): Cooper, Bernard, 1951-, Middlebrook, Diane Wood, 1939-2007, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Part I: READING: American poet Anne Sexton reads her poem, "Her Kind" (from a Caaedmon recording); INTERVIEW: Diane Wood Middlebrook discusses her controversial biography of Sexton, which is based on transcripts of Sexton's therapy sessions; READING: Sexton reads "Little Girl, My Stringbean, My Lovely Woman." (from Caedmon recording); Part II: READINGS and INTERVIEW: American writer Bernard Cooper reads his personal essay, "The Miracle Chicken" and reads "Underwater." Cooper discusses his…
Date: 2002-01-13
Name(s): Feinstein, Elaine, Godfrey, Lisa, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Eleanor Wachtel talks to biographer Elaine Feinstein about England's former Poet Laureate, Ted Hughes. They discuss his award-winning career and his early marriage to the American poet and author Sylvia Plath. This episode includes four clips of Hughes reading and speaking.
Date: 2001-04-08
Name(s): Pearson, Ian, Robb, Graham, 1958-, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Eleanor Wachtel speaks with biographer Graham Robb about the bad boy of 19th century French literature, Arthur Rimbaud. They talk about this paradoxical, surprising, rebel artist - the man Camus described as "the poet of revolt, and the greatest of them all."
Date: 1997-09-28
Name(s): Knowlson, James, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor, Whitelaw, Billie
Description: Today on Writers & Company, Eleanor and biographer James Knowlson take a look at the life and work of Nobel Prize winner Samuel Beckett. Known as the poet of failure and the dramatist of the human condition stripped to its essentials, Beckett remains one of the most profound and enigmatic of writers.
Date: 1991-12-29
Name(s): Dunn, Jane, Nichol, Barbara, Petrie, Doris, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Part I: Jane Dunn talks about A Very Close Conspiracy, a new book about the extraordinary sisters Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell; Part II: An imaginative look at local Toronto history, called "Dippers," written by Barbara Nichol and performed by Doris Petrie.
Date: 1997-02-02
Name(s): Celan, Paul, Felstiner, John, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Today, the conclusion of our series on Writing and the Holocaust. Eleanor talks with John Felstiner, the biographer of Paul Celan, Europe's most compelling post-war poet. Felstiner has written a sensitive and accessible new study. Also, you'll hear a recording of Paul Celan reading from his poem "Todesfuge" (Death Fugue).
Date: 2015-12-06
Name(s): Bate, Jonathan, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Eleanor Wachtel speaks with Jonathan Bate about his new biography of Ted Hughes. Though he is one of England's most highly regarded and controversial poets, Hughes is still known primarily as the husband of Sylvia Plath. Drawing on new archival material and private journals, Jonathan Bate's book, Ted Hughes: The Unauthorised Life, offers revelations about Hughes' marriage and its impact on his life and work.
Date: 1995-03-26
Name(s): Cohen, Nathan, Hastings, Selina, Mistry, Rohinton, 1952-, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Scanlan, Larry, 1948-, Wachtel, Eleanor, Waugh, Evelyn
Description: Eleanor talks with Selina Hastings about her very successful new biography of British novelist Evelyn Waugh - the cantankerous writer famous for Brideshead Revisited. Also, award-winning Canadian writer Rohinton Mistry reads his short story "The Scream."
Date: 1997-02-23
Name(s): Chatwin, Bruce, Clapp, Susannah, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Eleanor speaks with biographer Susannah Clapp about the remarkable life of England's Bruce Chatwin, the man who revolutionised travel writing before dissolving in his own myth. This episode includes recordings of the late Bruce Chatwin reading from his Australian book, The Songlines.
