Date: 2000-09-17
Name(s): Glendinning, Victoria, Rubenstein, Ferne, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: On the master of shock - Jonathan Swift, poet, polemicist, pamphleteer, and wit. A look at the life and times of the author of Gulliver's Travels with biographer, Victoria Glendinning.
Date: 1992-12-27
Name(s): Frappier, Jill, Glendinning, Victoria, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Svendsen, Linda, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Part 1: British biographer Victoria Gendinning discusses her book about one of the most popular and best-loved Victorian novelists, Anthony Trollope. Part II: A special holiday treat - Vancouver writer Linda Svendsen reads her short story "Klingons" from her collection Marine Life.
Date: 2002-02-03
Name(s): Carter, William C., Rabinovitch, Sandra, Richardson, Ralph, Sir, 1902-1983, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Eleanor Wachtel speaks with biographer William Carter about Marcel Proust - perhaps the greatest novelist of the 20th century. They talk about the life of the man who wrote the epic In Search of Lost Time - long known as Remembrance of Things Past.
Date: 2003-01-19
Name(s): Glendinning, Victoria, Holroyd, Michael, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: This week on Writers and Company, host Eleanor Wachtel talks with two of England's most celebrated biographers, Victoria Glendinning and Michael Holroyd. Glendinning's lives of Jonathan Swift and Anthony Trollope and Holroyd's definitive works on George Bernard Shaw and Augustus John have established them as two of the most influential biographers of our time. They talk with Eleanor Wachtel about the pleasures and pitfalls of writing biography.
Date: 2017-05-14
Name(s): Goldman, Francisco, Mbue, Imbolo, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Treuer, David, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Francisco Goldman, Imbolo Mbue and David Treuer reflect on cultural collision in the United States. Eleanor sat down with the three prize-winning writers on stage at the Blue Metropolis Literary Festival in Montréal.
Date: 2023-03-05
Name(s): Catton, Eleanor, 1985-, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: In 2013, Canadian-born, New Zealand writer Eleanor Catton made history when she became the youngest person ever to win the Booker Prize. Catton was just 28 and her novel, The Luminaries (2013), went on to become an international bestseller. Catton later adapted her novel for a BBC-TV mini-series and wrote the screenplay for the 2020 film production of Jane Austen's Emma. Now, her much anticipated new novel, Birnam Wood (2023), a page-turning eco-thriller set in New Zealand's South Island,…
Date: 2002-02-10
Name(s): McEwan, Ian, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Booker Prize winner Ian McEwan talks with Eleanor Wachtel about morality, imagination and his own growing up. They discuss his newest novel, Atonement, which explores the themes of shame, repentance, and of the possibility of absolution.
Date: 2021-06-13
Name(s): Mehmedinović, Semezdin, 1960-, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Semezdin Mehmedinović talks to Eleanor Wachtel about how a near fatal heart attack inspired his newest novel, My Heart: a Novel, and how surviving the Bosnian War inspired his celebrated book, Sarajevo Blues. *Note: The audio for this episode was recorded during the Covid-19 lockdown and contains occasional low-level equipment-related distortion.
Date: 2013-11-03
Name(s): Hemon, Aleksandar, 1964-, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Today: from Sarajevo and Chicago, Eleanor Wachtel's guest is the award-winning Bosnian-American writer, Aleksandar Hemon. His latest is a collection of personal essays called The Book of My Lives. Eleanor spoke with him onstage at the International Festival of Authors in October.
Date: 2021-10-03
Name(s): Swailes, Katy, Taylor, Brandon (Brandon L. G.), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: An interview with Brandon Taylor. The American author of the novel Real Life joins Eleanor in an intimate conversation about his Alabama childhood, going to graduate school in Wisconsin, and his latest book, a story collection called Filthy Animals. *Note: The audio for this episode was recorded during the Covid-19 lockdown and contains occasional low-level equipment-related distortion.
Date: 2014-04-13
Name(s): Machado, Ana Maria, 1941-, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Rodrigues, Sérgio, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Today marks the beginning of a five-part series called Brazil Inside Out. Host Eleanor Wachtel traveled to Brazil to explore new perspectives on life in this vast, diverse country. The series will feature conversations with eight dynamic writers, filmmakers and theatre artists, offering the untold stories of Brazil. In the opening episode: Brazilians have just commemorated the fiftieth anniversary of the beginning of the military dictatorship that ruled the country for 21 years. Although Brazil…
Date: 2014-04-20
Name(s): Padilha, José, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Brazil Inside Out, Pt. 2: with José Padilha. Today on Writers & Company, our special Brazil series continues with filmmaker José Padilha. His documentaries have tackled crime and corruption. His latest project - RoboCop!
Date: 2014-04-27
Name(s): Carvalho, Bernardo, 1960-, D'Alva, Roberta Estrela, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Our special series on Brazil continues with novelist Bernardo Carvalho and writer, director, and performer Roberta Estrela D'Alva. Bernardo Carvalho takes readers deep into the heart of the Amazon. Roberta Estrela D'Alva brings theatre to the streets and captures the energy of the streets in her work.
Date: 2014-05-04
Name(s): Rabinovitch, Sandra, Veríssimo, Luís Fernando, 1936-, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Our "Brazil: Inside Out" series continues with Luís Fernando Veríssimo, a satirical novelist, columnist and cartoonist who is especially renowned for his charming literary mysteries.
Date: 2014-05-11
Name(s): Aïnouz, Karim, Laub, Michel, 1973-, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Tune in today for part five of the series Brazil Inside Out. Filmmaker Karim Aïnouz captures the arid landscape and machismo culture of Brazil's northeast in his work. His interest in sexual, race and class politics is reflected in his feature, Madame Sata, dramatizing the tumultuous life of the legendary flamboyant black performer, street fighter and criminal. Eleanor will also speak with Michel Laub, one of top names among the younger generation of Brazilian writers recently featured in a…
