Date: 2002-11-17
Name(s): Lodge, David, 1935-, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Host Eleanor Wachtel welcomes author David Lodge. Though he's most widely known for hilarious novels, Trading Places and Ginger, You're Barmy, Lodge - a retired Professor of English at the University of Birmingham - has written highly acclaimed works of literary analysis, including Consciousness and the Novel. Lodge talks about his latest book, Thinks.
Date: 1997-03-16
Name(s): Malouf, David, 1934-, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Eleanor Wachtel speaks with one of Australia's great novelists, David Malouf. In his last book, Remembering Babylon, and now again in new novel - The Conversations at Curlow Creek - Malouf uses myth and history to explore nature and justice, and to understand humanity.
Date: 2004-11-21
Name(s): Mitchell, David (David Stephen), Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: This week on Writers and Company, host Eleanor Wachtel talks with British novelist David Mitchell. His new novel, Cloud Atlas, was on the short list for this year's Booker Prize. It's six books in one - an ambitious, multi-faceted, virtuosic novel that's a sheer pleasure to read.
Date: 2006-11-26
Name(s): Eisenberg, Deborah, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: This week on Writers and Company, host Eleanor Wachtel talks with New York short story writer Deborah Eisenberg, whose work is so complex and evocative that she's been called the "American Alice Munro". Her latest book is Twilight of the Superheroes. This episode includes Eisenberg reading from her story "Some Other, Better Otto" at the Toronto International Festival of Authors.
Date: 2019-12-01
Name(s): Levy, Deborah, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: British writer Deborah Levy talked to Eleanor Wachtel onstage in Toronto about her new novel, an enigmatic story about a striking young man that makes startling connections through time and space.
Date: 2012-01-15
Name(s): Healy, Dermot, 1947-2014, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Today on Writers & Company - Eleanor Wachtel speaks with Irish poet, playwright, and novelist, Dermot Healy. Unconventional and original, Healy puts us right inside the world of his authentic characters. His latest novel is called Long Time, No See.
Date: 2008-11-30
Name(s): Murphy, Dervla, 1931-2022, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: This week on Writers & Company - from Ireland and around the world, the extraordinary, the intrepid woman on a bicycle, or with a pack animal, or on her own two feet - travel writer, Dervla Murphy. Her most recent books are Silverland: A Winter Journey Beyond the Urals and The Island that Dared: Journeys in Cuba.
Date: 2009-03-08
Name(s): Athill, Diana, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: This week on Writers and Company, host Eleanor Wachtel speaks with a remarkable writer and editor: Diana Athill. At 91, she's just published a candid memoir called Somewhere Towards the End. Hear about that work- and the incredible woman behind it.
Date: 1997-11-23
Name(s): Johnson, Diane, 1934-, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Eleanor interviews American biographer, novelist, travel writer, and critic, Diane Johnson. Her latest book, Le Divorce, is a delightful comedy of manners and a finalist for the National Book Award for Fiction.
Date: 2011-01-30
Name(s): Mengestu, Dinaw, 1978-, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Eleanor Wachtel speaks with the Ethiopian-born American novelist, Dinaw Mengestu. At 32, he's already winning major prizes for his powerful and insightful work. His latest novel is called How to Read the Air.
Date: 2004-02-01
Name(s): Brand, Dionne, 1953-, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: This week on Writers and Company, Eleanor Wachtel talks with the award-winning Canadian poet, novelist and essayist Dionne Brand. From Trinidad to Toronto, from No Language is Neutral to Thirsty and A Map to the Door of No Return, Brand is a powerful voice of insight and identity.
Date: 1992-03-29
Name(s): Bradbury, Malcolm, 1932-2000, Handler, Richard, 1950-, Hewison, Robert, 1943-, Ignatieff, Michael, Miles, Rosalind, Stone, Norman, 1941-2019, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Discussions in three parts: An interview with British writer Malcolm Bradbury at his home in Norwich. A Panel discussions on England's place in the European community with historian Norman Stone, and critics Rosalind Miles and Robert Hewison (from CBC London). An interview with writer and critic Michael Ignatieff on an outsider's perception of Britain and the New Europe.
Date: 1995-02-19
Name(s): Alvarez, Julia, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Lost Their Accents, is about encountering America after growing up in the Dominican Republic. Now she's written about four more sisters, heroes of her homeland.
Date: 2016-06-19
Name(s): DeLillo, Don, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Eleanor speaks with American novelist Don DeLillo. The award-winning author of White Noise, Underworld and Libra has a new book called Zero K. Set in a secret cryonic freezing facility, the novel explores themes of science, religion and mortality.
Date: 2004-04-04
Name(s): Fox, Colin, Grossman, Edith, 1936-2023, Ife, B. W., Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: This week on Writers and Company, a classic: a new translation of Don Quixote, recently voted the best work of literature of all time and regarded as "the friendliest and least formal of all the Great Books." Eleanor Wachtel talks with translator Edith Grossman, and with Cervantes scholar Barry Ife. Also, actor Colin Fox reads some very entertaining passages from this new translation of Don Quixote.
