Date: 2008-04-20
Name(s): Stinson, Mary (Producer), Villoro, Juan, 1956-, Volpi Escalante, Jorge, 1968-, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: More of "Mexico Unmasked" this week on Writers & Company. It's a special series that cuts through the old clichéd images of Mexico to explore ongoing questions of Mexican identity; looking through the eyes of that country's writers and filmmakers. This week, Eleanor Wachtel conducts a lively and illuminating Panel discussions with two of the country's most provocative writers, Juan Villoro and Jorge Volpi. Juan Villoro's journalism, published internationally, covers a wide range of subjects…
Date: 2008-04-27
Name(s): Rabinovitch, Sandra, Taibo, Paco Ignacio, II, 1949-, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: More of "Mexico Unmasked" this week on Writers & Company. It's a look behind the clichés at Mexican identity; seen through the eyes of that country's writers and filmmakers. This week, Eleanor talks with journalist, historian and novelist Paco Ignacio Taibo II. He was born in Spain into a politically active family who fled Franco's regime for Mexico in 1958. He is best known for his series of philosophical crime novels, and his detective has been described as "Mexico's contemporary hero of…
Date: 2008-05-04
Name(s): Arriaga Jordán, Guillermo, 1958-, Boullosa, Carmen, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: The special series "Mexico Unmasked" wraps up this week on Writers and Company. It's an exploration of Mexican identity; looking through the eyes of that country's writers and filmmakers. The series concludes with the charming, passionate novelist Carmen Bullosa. Eleanor Wachtel also talks with the award-winning, innovative Guillermo Arriaga, writer of the movies Amores Perros, 21 Grams, and Babel.
Date: 2011-06-26
Name(s): Aboulela, Leila, 1964-, Hay, Elizabeth, 1951-, Kingston, Maxine Hong, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Toews, Miriam, 1964-, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: This week on Writers and Company, Eleanor Wachtel hosts a panel of Modern-Day Shahrazads. From the Luminato Festival of the Arts in Toronto, four superb writers come together to discuss their craft, the role of women and fiction, and share their latest works. The writers are Leila Aboulela, Miriam Toews, Elizabeth Hay and Maxine Hong Kingston.
Date: 1990-10-28
Name(s): Godfrey, Lisa, Goh, Poh Seng, 1936-2010, Grace, Patricia, 1937-, Narita, Jude, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Rodríguez, Carmen, 1948-, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: PANEL: "Multicultural Writing" - Goh Poh Seng, Carmen Rodriguez, and Jude Narita discuss the relation between their ethnic backgrounds and their work as North American writers (from Vancouver). READING: New Zealand/Maori novelist Patricia Grace reads her story "The Hills," at the Vancouver Writer's Festival. INTERVIEW: Patricia Grace discusses her fiction.
Date: 1991-02-17
Name(s): Fenwick, Moya, Hutcheon, Linda, 1947-, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Ricci, Nino, 1959-, Swan, Susan, 1945-, Tynes, Maxine, Varughese, Sugith, 1958-, Vassanji, M. G., Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: PANEL: Professor Linda Hutcheon, novelist Nino Ricci, and poet Maxine Tynes discuss multiculturalism in Canadian literature. (includes discussion of L. Hutcheon (Ed.), Other Solitudes: Canadian Multicultural Fictions,1990,Oxford Univ. Press). LIT FEATURE: A performance of a specially-commissioned work, "The Little Warrior," by author M.G. Vassanji. Read by Sugith Varughese and Moya Fenwick. INTERVIEW: Susan Swan discusses her "guilty pleasure" - reading women's magazines.
Date: 2011-06-05
Name(s): Ghosh, Amitav, 1956-, Mukherjee, Bharati, Saccidānandan, 1946-, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: "Out of India": three writers - Amitav Ghosh, Bharati Mukherjee and K. Saccidānandan - reflect on the country of their childhood and its dynamic changes today. Eleanor Wachtel spoke with them, onstage, at this year's Blue Metropolis International Literary Festival in Montreal.
Date: 2006-05-14
Name(s): Iossel, Mikhail, Kenjeev, Bakhyt, Meek, James, 1962-, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: This week on Writers and Company, two expatriate Russian writers, now living in Montréal - Mikhail Iossel and Bakhyt Kenjeev - join James Meek, Guardian correspondent in Russia and author of a novel set in Siberia, in a round table recorded at the Blue Metropolis Literary Festival. They talk about the country they knew, and where it is now.
Date: 1990-10-07
Name(s): Colwin, Laurie, Keens-Douglas, Richardo, Mandiela, Ahdri Zhina, Perry, Linda, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Sadu, Itah, 1961-, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: READING: Richardo Keens-Douglas performs his story "Mama God, Papa God". PANEL: "Performance Storytelling from the West Indies," with Richardo Keens-Douglas and Itah Sadu (both in Toronto). FEATURE: "Miss McDoon of Doonsvilee (The Barrel Lady)", written and performed by Itah Sadu, with Ahdri Zhina Mandiela (Dir.) Toronto. INTERVIEW: Novelist Laurie Colwin discusses Goodbye Without Leaving.
Date: 2013-12-15
Name(s): Barry, Kevin, Cartwright, Justin, Gray, Charlotte, 1948-, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor, Wolitzer, Meg
Description: This week: a panel on the perils and pleasures of literary prizes. Eleanor talks with four literary prize winners, including England's Justin Cartwright, Ireland's Kevin Barry, Canada's Charlotte Gray, and American Meg Wolitzer.
Date: 1993-02-07
Name(s): Kristeva, Julia, 1941-, McEwan, Ian, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: "Politics in Fiction" : French psychoanalyst and literary theorist, Julia Kristeva talks about her first novel, called The Samurai. And Ian McEwan writes about the underlying demons of western Europe in his new novel, Black Dogs.
Date: 1998-10-11
Name(s): De Botton, Alain, Schacter, Daniel L., Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: "Proust and Memory" - Part I: Eleanor Wachtel talks to Alain De Botton about How Proust Can Change Your Life.; Part II: Eleanor talks to Harvard psychologist Daniel Schacter about his book, Searching for Memory: The Brain, the Mind, and the Past.
Date: 1999-06-06
Name(s): Drabble, Margaret, 1939-, Lovelace, Earl, 1935-, Melville, Pauline, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: "The Novel in Their Lives" - From the Manulife Literary Arts Festival in Victoria, British Columbia, a panel with Margaret Drabble, Earl Lovelace, and Pauline Melville
Date: 2003-02-16
Name(s): Bowering, George, 1935-, Choy, Wayson, 1939-2019, Guterson, David, Mootoo, Shani, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Thomas, Audrey, 1935-, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: From the Arts Club Theatre on Granville Island, "There's No Place Like Home." The idea of home - its elusiveness and its solidity - goes back to the beginning of literature, from Homer's Odyssey to Charles Frazier's Cold Mountain. Eleanor Wachtel asks five West Coast writers to tackle this theme: George Bowering, Wayson Choy, David Guterson, Shani Mootoo, and Audrey Thomas.
Date: 2007-05-06
Name(s): Mağden, Perihan, 1960-, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Today, Writers and Company begins a special series called "View from the Bridge: Turkish Writing Today." It's where Asia and Europe meet, where cultural divisions are more complex than simply East and West. This week, Istanbul-born Perihan Mağden, the author of surprising and inventive novels such as The Messenger Boy Murders and Two Girls (which was made into a movie). Passionate and outspoken, she is also a widely read and often controversial columnist. Last year, she was tried and acquitted…
