Date: 2008-09-14
Name(s): Antrim, Donald, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Donald Antrim's mother was a ferocious alcoholic and - as he puts it -"operatically suicidal." But when she died - at 65, of lung cancer-- he was haunted, and gradually tried to come to terms with the complexity of their relationship through his writing. This week on Writers & Company, Eleanor Wachtel speaks with the American novelist about his searing memoir, The Afterlife. As the Village Voice describes it: "Antrim writes like a man defusing a bomb: one false move, and he and his family…
Date: 2019-09-08
Name(s): Lynskey, Dorian, Swailes, Katy, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Eleanor Wachtel speaks to Dorian Lynskey about the dystopian classic and its lasting impact on society. Lynskey is the author of The Ministry of Truth: A Biography of George Orwell's 1984.
Date: 2007-12-09
Name(s): Kennedy, A. L., Leavitt, David, 1961-, Piperno, Alessandro, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Tsukiyama, Gail, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: This week on Writers and Company, host Eleanor Wachtel talks with writers who write history in fiction. Her guests include A.L. Kennedy (Day), David Leavitt (The Indian Clerk: a Novel), Alessandro Piperno (The Worst Intentions), and Gail Tsukiyama (Street of a Thousand Blossoms). Their works span from the early twentieth century through the Second World War.
Date: 1997-09-14
Name(s): Nooteboom, Cees, 1933-, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Today on Writers & Company - an interview with Dutch novelist, poet, and travel writer Cees Nooteboom. He's been compared to Calvino, Borges, and Nabokov, but Nooteboom is a surprising and unique talent all his own. They discuss his book Roads to Santiago: Detours and Riddles in the Lands and History of Spain.
Date: 2017-01-15
Name(s): Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor, Wieringa, Tommy, 1967-
Description: Dutch novelist Tommy Wieringa is one of the bestselling literary Authors in Dutch history. His powerful novel, These Are the Names, explores enduring questions of faith, identity and belonging.
Date: 2014-05-18
Name(s): Rabinovitch, Sandra, Temelkuran, Ece, 1973-, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: From Istanbul, an exclusive interview with the Turkish political activist, journalist, writer, poet, and novelist, Ece Temelkuran. They discuss her poetry and her books, including Deep Mountain: Across the Turkish-Armenian Divide.
Date: 2011-02-13
Name(s): De Waal, Edmund, Hastings, Sascha, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Eleanor Wachtel speaks with one of England's most respected ceramicists about his extraordinary memoir, The Hare With Amber Eyes. Edmund de Waal is descended from a grand, 19th century European banking family. But by the end of the Second World War, virtually all that remained of their vast fortune was a collection of 264 Japanese wood and ivory carvings. De Waal became the fifth generation to inherit this exquisite collection and his account of its journey is moving and original.
Date: 2016-05-15
Name(s): O'Brien, Edna, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: From London, Eleanor Wachtel speaks with Irish writer Edna O'Brien about her new novel, The Little Red Chairs. In this candid interview, the 85-year-old author explores the themes of pain, loss and love that have preoccupied her work and life.
Date: 2005-02-06
Name(s): Jones, Edward P., Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: This week, Eleanor Wachtel speaks with the extraordinary, African-American writer, Edward P. Jones. They talk about his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Known World - set in the heartland of 19th century slavery - and about black experience in today's urban America. Eleanor asked Edward P. Jones about the solace he found in reading as a lonely young man growing up in Washington, D.C.
Date: 2012-03-25
Name(s): St. Aubyn, Edward, 1960-, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: This week, from England, a surprising and quite brilliant novelist: Edward St Aubyn. He's transformed his own painful upbringing into remarkably entertaining fiction in his Patrick Melrose series.
Date: 2013-10-06
Name(s): Danticat, Edwidge, 1969-, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: From Haiti and the United States, Edwidge Danticat. It's been almost ten years since her last novel, but she now has a moving new book, Claire of the Sea Light, set in a Haitian fishing village before the earthquake.
Date: 2007-10-21
Name(s): Danticat, Edwidge, 1969-, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: This week on Writers and Company, host Eleanor Wachtel talks with Edwidge Danticat, an American writer originally from Haiti. She made her reputation as the bestselling author of The Dew Breaker and Krik? Krak! and now she has written a powerful and moving memoir called, Brother, I'm Dying.
Date: 1999-04-18
Name(s): Danticat, Edwidge, 1969-, Godfrey, Lisa, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Host Eleanor Wachtel interviews Haitian-American author Edwidge Danticat. She's become one of America's most celebrated new novelists at an astonishingly young age. Her latest book is called The Farming of Bones.
Date: 2007-04-22
Name(s): Scarry, Elaine, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: This week on Writers and Company, host Eleanor Wachtel talks with Harvard's Elaine Scarry - one of the most original, idiosyncratic minds engages with the tantalizing subjects of beauty and pain and the nature of creativity.
Date: 1995-10-22
Name(s): Bryson, Bill, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Trapido, Barbara, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Interview I: Eleanor Wachtel interviews British author Barbara Trapido and discusses her latest book, Juggling. Interview II: Eleanor speaks with American author Bill Bryson about the English language and his book The Mother Tongue : English And How It Got That Way
