Date: 2019-12-08
Name(s): Fuks, Julián, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Acclaimed Brazilian author Julián Fuks spoke to Eleanor Wachtel about his award-winning novel Resistance, which explores the experience of his family who were forced to flee Argentina's dictatorship.
Date: 2020-11-15
Name(s): Bennett, Brit, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Bestselling American author Brit Bennett joins Eleanor Wachtel to discuss her new novel, The Vanishing Half, which revolves around identical twin sisters who live out different racial identities.
Date: 2006-02-26
Name(s): Bennett, Alan, 1934-, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: This week on Writers and Company, host Eleanor Wachtel talks with England's Alan Bennett. Famous for his wit, his diaries and his award-winning plays - from The Madness of King George to The History Boys - his latest book, Untold Stories, is his most personal ever.
Date: 2010-11-28
Name(s): McCarthy, Tom, 1969 May 22-, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: This week on Writers and Company, Eleanor Wachtel speaks with one of the most inventive writers of the 21st century, Tom McCarthy. He has an ambitious new novel, titled with the initial 'C', in which he focuses on a period marked by new developments in telecommunications, modernism and war. The novel buzzes with connections and allusions, and even though the time is ostensibly the early 20th century, it still resonates today. 'C' was shortlisted for the Man Booker prize.
Date: 2007-04-15
Name(s): Lee, Hermione, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: This week on Writers and Company, host Eleanor Wachtel talks with biographer Hermione Lee about one of the great American novelists of the early 20th century, Edith Wharton. The author of House of Mirth, The Age of Innocence and Ethan Frome was the exemplar of New York's "Gilded Age."
Date: 1996-11-24
Name(s): Lee, Hermione, McIlveen, Nancy, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Today, a special on Virginia Woolf. Fifty-five years after her suicide, fascination with her life and work remains high. Eleanor Wachtel talks with Hermione Lee, author of a new biography on Woolf. This episode includes excerpts from Woolf's writings, as well as a recording of the voice of Virginia Woolf.
Date: 2000-02-20
Name(s): Feldman, Susan, James, P. D., Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Today, Eleanor Wachtel talks with British crime novelist, P. D. James, about her life as a writer and her new memoir, Time to Be in Earnest. Plus, a Reading given at Humber School from her novel, A Taste for Death
Date: 2017-01-22
Name(s): Baker, Jo, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Eleanor speaks with English author Jo Baker. Her bestselling novel Longbourn is a retelling of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice — from the servants' perspective. Her latest novel, A Country Road, A Tree, goes behind the scenes with Samuel Beckett.
Date: 2017-06-04
Name(s): Rabinovitch, Sandra, Tremain, Rose, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Eleanor speaks with Orange Prize-winning author Rose Tremain about her latest novel, The Gustav Sonata — an exploration of political and personal neutrality set in Switzerland before and after the Second World War.
Date: 1995-09-24
Name(s): Bennett, Alan, 1934-, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: British writer and wit, Alan Bennett. One of the original members of Beyond the Fringe, Bennett is now known for his play and film The Madness of King George, and for his utterly engaging book, Writing Home.
Date: 1994-11-27
Name(s): Mantel, Hilary, 1952-2022, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: The adventurous British writer Hilary Mantel. Each book is something completely different. Her latest, A Change of Climate, is set in rural East Anglia and in 1950s South Africa.
Date: 2011-06-19
Name(s): Matar, Hisham, 1970-, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Eleanor Wachtel speaks with American born British-Libyan novelist Hisham Matar about the events that have shaped his writing, including the abduction of his father and life under the Libyan dictator Muammar Qaddafi. His first book, In the Country of Men, won six international literary awards and was translated into 28 languages. His new one is called Anatomy of a Disappearance.
Date: 2012-12-16
Name(s): Mistry, Rohinton, 1952-, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: This week: A pre-holiday special: a personal memoir of music and words from Canadian novelist Rohinton Mistry. Eleanor Wachtel spoke with him onstage at a PEN Canada benefit performance at the International Festival of Authors. Among other things, he talked about his early forays in writing. The first time he entered the University of Toronto's Hart House short story competition, he won first prize.
Date: 2000-02-27
Name(s): Shields, Carol, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Eleanor speaks with Canadian author Carol Shields about her new collection of short stories, Dressing Up for the Carnival. Then: a reading of Shields' short story "Soup du Jour" at the Toronto International Festival of Authors.
Date: 1997-09-21
Name(s): Shields, Carol, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Canadian writer Carol Shields has a new novel, her first since The Stone Diaries. Shields now gives us a lighter view than the ultimately dark aspect of Daisy's life in Stone Diaries in her new book, Larry's Party.
