Date: 2011-01-09
Name(s): Alexander, Caroline, 1956-, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Classics scholar Caroline Alexander is most famous for two books - The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition, and The Bounty: The True Story of Mutiny on the Bounty where she reveals that Bligh, the ostensible villain, was in fact, something of a hero. Now she's written The War That Killed Achilles: The True Story of Homer's Iliad and the Trojan War.
Date: 2013-01-27
Name(s): Lanzmann, Claude, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: January 27 was the anniversary of the 1945 liberation of Auschwitz. To mark the day, Writers & Company features an interview with the French writer and filmmaker, Claude Lanzmann. The creator of the 9 1/2 hour masterpiece, Shoah, has written an award-winning memoir called The Patagonian Hare.
Date: 2022-12-11
Name(s): Prose, Francine, 1947-, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Cleopatra is one of the most famous women in history. As a wily seductress who charmed both Julius Caesar and Mark Antony, she's been the subject of numerous stage and screen portrayals. Francine Prose says she's also greatly misunderstood. The award-winning novelist, essayist and critic has written about real-life figures, from Anne Frank and Ethel Rosenberg, to former president Donald Trump. In her latest book, Cleopatra: Her History, Her Myth, Prose challenges common misperceptions about the…
Date: 2007-03-04
Name(s): Stinson, Mary (Producer), Tóibín, Colm, 1955-, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: This week on Writers and Company, host Eleanor Wachtel talks with Irish writer Colm Tóibín. The award-winning author of The Master has a new book of stories, called Mothers and Sons.
Date: 2014-11-16
Name(s): Robinson, Marilynne, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Tóibín, Colm, 1955-, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: This week, Eleanor has a lively and entertaining conversation from the International Festival of Authors with two wonderful writers - Marilynne Robinson and Colm Tóibín.
Date: 2017-11-26
Name(s): Stinson, Mary (Producer), Tóibín, Colm, 1955-, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Colm Tóibín talks to Eleanor Wachtel onstage at the Toronto International Festival of Authors about his new novel, House of Names — a troubling tale of family, murder and vengeance that draws from Greek myth. They also discuss the life of American poet Elizabeth Bishop.
Date: 2014-02-16
Name(s): Abad Faciolince, Héctor Joaquín, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: From the Hay-Cartagena Festival, the prolific Colombian writer and essayist, Héctor Abad. His moving memoir Oblivion is a memorial to his father, killed in 1987 for his criticism of the repressive Colombian regime.
Date: 2016-09-18
Name(s): Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor, Whitehead, Colson, 1969-
Description: What if the Underground Railroad really was a network of secret trains that brought runaway slaves to freedom? That's the premise of Colson Whitehead's acclaimed novel, The Underground Railroad. He speaks with Eleanor about blending fact and fiction.
Date: 2020-03-01
Name(s): Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor, Ware, Chris, 1967-
Description: Award-winning cartoonist Chris Ware speaks to Eleanor Wachtel about his latest book, Rusty Brown, and the childhood experiences that helped shape his career.
Date: 2002-02-17
Name(s): Collins, Billy, Sherrin, Ned, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Eleanor Wachtel in conversation with the American poet laureate, Billy Collins about his new collection, Sailing Alone Around the Room: new and selected poems. And did you hear the one about - The Oxford Dictionary of Humorous Quotations? Eleanor speaks with the editor of this collection of wit and humour, Ned Sherrin.
Date: 2009-03-15
Name(s): García, Cristina, 1958-, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: This week on Writers & Company, author Cristina Garcia talks about her book Dreaming in Cuban. She joins host Eleanor Wachtel for an in-depth look at writing, immigration and family.
Date: 2011-03-20
Name(s): Eire, Carlos M. N., Gilbert, Sarah, 1967-, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Eleanor Wachtel speaks with the Cuban-American writer, Carlos Eire, a professor of history and religious studies at Yale University. He's written a number of scholarly books but, about ten years ago, he began to write about his own history. His first, Waiting for Snow in Havana won a National Book Award. His new memoir, Learning to Die in Miami, focuses on his experience as a refugee in America. Carlos Eire's memoirs, Learning to Die in Miami and Waiting for Snow in Havana are published by Free…
Date: 2005-03-13
Name(s): Ozick, Cynthia, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: A conversation with American writer Cynthia Ozick this week on Writers & Company. A woman who infuses her fiction and her essays with intellectual passion and brilliance, Ozick talks with Eleanor Wachtel about her latest novel, Heir to the Glimmering World.
Date: 1997-10-19
Name(s): Ozick, Cynthia, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Eleanor interviews American author Cynthia Ozick - a woman who infuses her writing with intellectual passion and brilliance - about The Puttermusser Papers.
Date: 1999-06-13
Name(s): Stinson, Mary (Producer), Thomas, D.M., Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: British novelist D.M. Thomas discusses his biography on one of the most important writers of the 20th century - the Russian author and Soviet dissident Aleksandr Solzhenit︠s︡yn. A political exile, prophet, and monumental historian, Solzhenit︠s︡yn won the 1970 Nobel Prize for Literature.
