Date: 2020-11-08
Name(s): Rabinovitch, Sandra, Sofer, Dalia, 1972-, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Iranian American author Dalia Sofer speaks with Eleanor Wachtel about her new novel, Man of My Time, which spans 40 years of turbulence — both in Iran and in the heart of its protagonist.
Date: 2004-10-24
Name(s): Galgut, Damon, 1963-, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: This week on Writers and Company, from Cape Town, Damon Galgut. He's written a disturbing novel about the new, post-Apartheid South Africa in all its complexity, violence, and hope. It's called The Good Doctor, and it was short-listed for last year's Booker Prize.
Date: 2022-01-09
Name(s): Galgut, Damon, 1963-, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: South African writer Damon Galgut follows a white Pretoria family through the dismantling of Apartheid in his 2021 Booker Prize-winning novel, The Promise. It was praised by the judges as "a spectacular demonstration of how the novel can make us see and think afresh." *Note: The audio for this episode was recorded during the Covid-19 lockdown and contains occasional low-level equipment-related distortion.
Date: 1991-09-22
Name(s): Geddes, Gary, 1940-, Gioia, Dana, Humphreys, Josephine, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Sullivan, Rosemary, 1947-, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Part I: Poets Dana Gioia, Gary Geddes, and Rosemary Sullivan discuss the issues raised in Gioia's controversial article for The Atlantic, "Can Poetry Matter?"; Part II: Josephine Humphreys discusses loss, romanticism, and the contemporary Southern lives explored in her fiction. Humphreys reads from her new novel, The Fireman's Fair, at Harbourfront.
Date: 2014-09-21
Name(s): Alarcón, Daniel, 1977-, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Peruvian-American novelist Daniel Alarcón is described as a writer who thrives in two cultures: "I'm an American writer writing about Latin America, and I'm a Latin American writer who happens to write in English." His work explores identity, trust, love, and power against the backdrop of Latin American politics.
Date: 2015-01-11
Name(s): Kehlmann, Daniel, 1975-, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Jonathan Franzen says of German-Austrian novelist Daniel Kehlmann, "[He] has become the go-to guy in Central Europe for engagement with the weirdness of the postmodern world we inhabit." Kehlmann talks to Eleanor Wachtel about his novels 'F' and Measuring the World.
Date: 2017-10-01
Name(s): Mendelsohn, Daniel Adam, 1960-, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: In his memoir An Odyssey, American writer and critic Daniel Mendelsohn gives an account of what happened when his elderly father sat in on his university seminar on Homer's epic poem.
Date: 2018-06-17
Name(s): Rabinovitch, Sandra, Senna, Danzy, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: The American novelist draws on her experience growing up in an interracial family in her edgy, prize-winning fiction. In her latest novel, New People, she writes with insight and subversive humour about what it means to be half-black and half-white.
Date: 2006-01-22
Name(s): Sobel, Dava, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: This week on Writers and Company, unusual stories of scientific discovery. Dava Sobel transforms her passion for astronomy into best-selling books on longitude, Galileo, and her newest, The Planets.
Date: 2007-12-16
Name(s): Eggers, Dave, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: This week on Writers and Company, host Eleanor Wachtel talks with Dave Eggers. He achieved fame and recognition for his award-winning memoir, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius. Now he's written a biography of Valentino Achak Deng, a "lost boy" of Sudan who eventually made his way to America where the complicated story of his life continues. The book is written as an autobiography and entitled What is the What?
Date: 2017-11-05
Name(s): Bellos, David, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: In his new book, biographer and translator David Bellos chronicles the life and legacy of 19th-century French writer, Victor Hugo. The Novel of the Century: The Extraordinary Adventure of Les Misérables explores the social history and dramatic story behind Hugo's masterpiece - the most frequently adapted novel of all time.
Date: 2020-12-13
Name(s): Foenkinos, David, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Bestselling French novelist David Foenkinos talks with Eleanor Wachtel about his acclaimed books The Mystery of Henri Pick; Charlotte; and Lennon: The New York Years.
Date: 2006-09-17
Name(s): Grossman, David, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: This week on Writers and Company, host Eleanor Wachtel talks with one of Israel's finest writers and most outspoken peace activists, David Grossman. His latest work is an exploration of the myth of Samson - the modern ramifications of the biblical strongman.
Date: 2008-11-23
Name(s): Grossman, David, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: A conversation with one of Israel's finest writers and most outspoken peace activists, David Grossman. His work goes straight to the heart - whether it's fiction, or his latest book of essays, Writing in the Dark. Writing in the Dark is published by Farrar Straus & Giroux.
Date: 2017-02-12
Name(s): Rabinovitch, Sandra, Skal, David J., Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Eleanor speaks with author, filmmaker and cultural historian David J. Skal about the undying legacy of Dracula and the untold story of the man who created him - Bram Stoker.
