Date: 2012-04-01
Name(s): Chen, Guanzhong, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: This week, from Beijing, Chan Koonchung. His novel, The Fat Years is an astute take on the effects of Chinese politics in everyday life...what one critic describes as "the struggle over the soul of a nation."
Date: 2004-03-07
Name(s): Lee, Chang-rae, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Host Eleanor Wachtel talks with the extraordinary Korean American novelist Chang-rae Lee this week on Writers & Company. He might be a new discovery for some, but all of Seattle is reading his last book. The author of the award-winning A Gesture Life and Native Speaker has a surprising brand-new book, Aloft.
Date: 2021-05-16
Name(s): Swailes, Katy, Wachtel, Eleanor, Yu, Charles, 1976-
Description: American television and fiction writer Charles Yu discusses his latest novel, Interior: Chinatown. Winner of the 2020 U.S. National Book Award, it is an entertaining story about representation, identity and the pursuit of a leading role.
Date: 2022-02-13
Name(s): Rabinovitch, Sandra, Swailes, Katy, Wachtel, Eleanor, Yan, Ge, 1984-
Description: Fiction writer Yan Ge is a literary sensation in China, where she was named one of her country's "future literary masters." Her latest work to appear in English translation is Strange Beasts of China, a mysterious, imaginative tale about unusual creatures that live among humans. Written shortly after the death of Ge's mother, it explores themes of identity, loss, and the very nature of being human. *Note: The audio for this episode was recorded during the Covid-19 lockdown and contains…
Date: 2010-09-12
Name(s): Min, Anchee, 1957-, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: This Sunday marks the beginning of a new season and the 20th anniversary season for Writers and Company - something special. Today, Eleanor Wachtel speaks with American writer Anchee Min. The author of the searing memoir Red Azalea, and the novel Becoming Madame Mao has a new book based on the life of Pearl S Buck called Pearl of China (2009, Bloomsbury)
Date: 2001-01-07
Name(s): Godfrey, Lisa, Jin, Ha, 1956-, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Eleanor Wachtel speaks with the remarkable Chinese-American writer, Ha Jin. He won a National Book Award for his haunting novel, Waiting.
Date: 2016-11-27
Name(s): Kloeble, Christopher, 1982-, Melandri, Francesca, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Eleanor speaks with Germany's Christopher Kloeble and Italy's Francesca Melandri onstage at the International Festival of Authors in Toronto. The novelists discuss the effects of history and current political climates on their work... and lives.
Date: 2005-02-13
Name(s): Rabinovitch, Sandra, Ricks, Christopher, 1933-, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: This week on Writers and Company, host Eleanor Wachtel talks with Oxford Poetry Professor Christopher Ricks. They talk about the man Ricks regards as "the greatest living user of the English language," Bob Dylan. Alongside Ricks' studies of Milton, Eliot and Beckett comes his latest work, Dylan's Visions of Sin.
Date: 2014-12-14
Name(s): Stinson, Mary (Producer), Tsiolkas, Christos, 1965-, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: The Telegraph says of Barracuda that it "... may tell and old, old story, but it has rarely been told in a better way." Eleanor speaks with Australian novelist Christos Tsiolkas about his new novel.
Date: 2001-02-18
Name(s): Fernández-Armesto, Felipe, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Today on Writers & Company - Civilizations - a look at world history in relation to the environment with England's Felipe Fernandez-Armesto. He is an award-winning maritime and colonial historian, and the author of Millennium.
Date: 2016-03-13
Name(s): Harman, Claire, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: To mark the 200th birthday of Charlotte Brontë, Eleanor Wachtel speaks with British biographer Claire Harman. Harman's latest book, Charlotte Brontë: A Fiery Heart, retells the fascinating life story behind the author of the beloved novel, Jane Eyre.
Date: 2022-04-24
Name(s): Keegan, Claire, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Swailes, Katy, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Claire Keegan's beautifully wrought fiction is remarkable for its subtlety and emotional depth. Her new novel, Small Things Like These, has won high praise and was on many best-of-the-year lists in Britain. Set during a time of economic hardship and the authority of the Catholic Church in 1980s Ireland, Small Things Like These is a moving story of complicity and human decency. *Note: The audio for this episode was recorded during the Covid-19 lockdown and contains occasional low-level equipment…
Date: 2001-02-25
Name(s): Messud, Claire, 1966-, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: A coversation with the young American novelist, Claire Messud. Her latest book, The Last Life is an evocation of the political and emotional inheritance of the Algerian-French. It's also a remarkable coming-of-age novel.
Date: 1991-04-21
Name(s): Mistry, Rohinton, 1952-, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Tomalin, Claire, Varughese, Sugith, 1958-, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: British biographer Claire Tomalin discusses the affair between Victorian actress Nelly Ternan and novelist Charles Dickens in her book, The Invisible Woman.; Indian-Canadian fiction writer Rohinton Mistry discusses his work. This episode includes an excerpt from Rohinton Mistry's new novel Such a Long Journey, read by Sugith Varughese.
Date: 2003-03-16
Name(s): Rabinovitch, Sandra, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Tatar, Maria, 1945-, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Host Eleanor Wachtel talks with a leading authority on folklore and children's literature, Maria Tatar. Her new book, The Annotated Classic Fairy Tales, explores the cultural complexity and historical origins of our all-time favourites.
