Date: 2002-04-07
Name(s): Rabinovitch, Sandra, Shields, Carol, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Writers & Company host Eleanor Wachtel in an intimate conversation with Canadian writer Carol Shields. In 1993, Carol Shields became an "overnight success"... almost 20 years after the publication of her first novel. Her novel The Stone Diaries won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Governor-General's Award for Literature. Here, she talks about her upcoming novel, Unless.
Date: 1991-01-20
Name(s): Angier, Carole, 1943-, Coetzee, J. M., 1940-, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: INTERVIEW: Biographer Carole Angier discusses her study of writer Jean Rhys (Jean Rhys: Life and Work, 1990, Andre Deutsch). READING I: South African author J. M. Coetzee reads excerpts from his novel Age of Iron (1990, General Publishing), taped during public readings at the Toronto International Festival of Authors. INTERVIEW: J.M.Coetzee on life and work as a writer in apartheid South Africa. READING II:Coetzee cont'd.
Date: 2001-01-28
Name(s): Paley, Grace, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Spiegelman, Art, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Eleanor Wachtel speaks with the American comic book artist Art Spiegelman. The author of the award-winning, remarkably original Maus - a biography of his father's wartime experiences, Spiegelman is also famous for his controversial New Yorker covers. Also, Grace Paley reads her short story "Traveling" from her collection Just As I Thought.
Date: 2015-06-14
Name(s): Phillips, Caryl, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: This week, Caryl Phillips talks with Eleanor about his new novel, The Lost Child. It examines the origins of Heathcliff, Emily Bronte's mysterious hero, intertwined with a modern story about a troubled single mother living in Yorkshire.
Date: 2015-11-15
Name(s): Company, Flavia, 1963-, Pastor, Marc, 1977-, Puntí, Jordi, 1967-, Sales, Martí, 1979-, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Eleanor speaks about language, literature and politics with four writers from Catalonia ― Spain's economic engine and possible breakaway republic.
Date: 2008-12-14
Name(s): Rushdie, Salman, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: This week on Writers and Company- Salman Rushdie, one of the world's most celebrated Authors. Rushdie lived in hiding for ten years under the Ayatollah Khomeini's fatwa. In 1999 the death threat was lifted, and Rushdie could live a normal life and so could his infamous novel, The Satanic Verses. He'll discuss the book, as well as his latest novel The Enchantress of Florence.
Date: 2021-02-28
Name(s): Lacey, Catherine, 1985-, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: American novelist and short story writer Catherine Lacey talks to Eleanor Wachtel about growing up in Mississippi and her new novel, Pew, about a mysterious stranger who makes a big impact on a small town in the American South.
Date: 2002-06-09
Name(s): Coetzee, J. M., 1940-, Nooteboom, Cees, 1933-, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Eleanor Wachtel speaks with the Dutch novelist, poet, and travel writer Cees Nooteboom. Brooding, reflective, and illuminating, his latest book is a novel called All Souls' Day. And from South Africa, a preview of the award-winning J.M. Coetzee's new book, Youth.
Date: 2003-09-07
Name(s): Lessing, Doris, 1919-2013, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Host Eleanor Wachtel in conversation with Doris Lessing. From London, one of the most influential writers of the past half century. At 83, she continues to produce provocative new work. Lessing is a self-educated intellectual, having dropped out of school at the age of 13. Born in what is now Iran, Lessing grew up in what is now Zimbabwe. She now lives in England. Her most famous work, The Golden Notebook, was published in 1962. She describes her writing as taking the raw, the individual, the…
Date: 2023-04-23
Name(s): Kurkov, Andreĭ, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Swailes, Katy, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: In Diary of an Invasion, bestselling Ukrainian novelist and journalist Andreĭ Kurkov documents daily life during the first year of Russia's war, fusing the personal, historical and political. Known for novels that are pointed yet playful, his most recent, Grey Bees, explores the 2014 conflict and its aftermath in eastern Ukraine through the eyes of a beekeeper living in the crosshairs. It won the 2023 National Book Critics Circle award for translation.
Date: 2004-06-20
Name(s): Chiasson, Herménégilde, Maillet, Antonine, 1929-, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: This week on Writers & Company: To celebrate the four hundredth anniversary of Acadia, Eleanor Wachtel talks with a woman described as the "soul" of Acadian literature, Antonine Maillet, creator of La Sagouine and Pelagie. Also, a conversation with writer, artist, and Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick, Herménégilde Chiasson.
Date: 2023-06-11
Name(s): Ondaatje, Michael, 1943-, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Swailes, Katy, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: One of the world's most celebrated writers, Michael Ondaatje is the author of such acclaimed works as Running in the Family (1982), Anil's Ghost (2000) and In the Skin of a Lion (1987). His novel The English Patient (1992) won the 2018 Golden Man Booker Prize, naming it as the best novel of the Booker's 50-year history. His writing, both poetry and prose, is often rooted in history – from Toronto in the early 1900s, to North Africa during the Second World War, to Ondaatje's childhood in Sri…
Date: 2007-02-25
Name(s): Davenport-Hines, R. P. T. (Richard Peter Treadwell), 1953-, Mendelson, Edward, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: This year marks the centennial of the birth of W.H. Auden, often described as the greatest poet of the 20th century. Host Eleanor Wachtel talks with his biographer, Richard Davenport-Hines, and Auden's literary executor, Edward Mendelson. You'll also hear recordings of Auden reading his own work.
Date: 2008-01-27
Name(s): Gobeil, Madeleine, Miller, Nancy K., 1941-, Moi, Toril, Rowley, Hazel, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: This week on Writers and Company, on the centenary of Simone de Beauvoir's birth, host Eleanor Wachtel talks with documentary filmmaker Madeleine Gobeil. Then it's a Panel discussions with three enthusiasts who are biographers and academics - Nancy K. Miller, Toril Moi, and Hazel Rowley - about the life and work of this extraordinary French feminist, intellectual, novelist, memoirist - and lover.
Date: 2023-06-25
Name(s): De Waal, Edmund, Franzen, Jonathan, Galloway, Matt, Ghosh, Amitav, 1956-, Gornick, Vivian, Harrison, Kathryn, Hemon, Aleksandar, 1964-, Le Carré, John, 1931-2020, Mount, Ferdinand, 1939-, Ozick, Cynthia, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Roy, Arundhati, Rushdie, Salman, Saunders, George, 1958-, Shteyngart, Gary, 1972-, Smith, Zadie, Swailes, Katy, Taylor, Brandon (Brandon L. G.), Vuong, Ocean, 1988-, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: For Writers & Company's final original episode, Eleanor Wachtel is interviewed on-stage by Matt Galloway, host of CBC Radio's The Current. She then speaks with American Authors Brandon Taylor (The Late Americans, 2023, Riverhead Books) and Gary Shteyngart (Our Country Friends, 2021, Random House), and receives surprise greetings from the likes of Salman Rushdie, Jonathan Franzen, Aleksandar Hemon, and Zadie Smith.
