Date: 2024-09-01
Name(s): Kincaid, Jamaica, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Sacks, Oliver, 1933-2015, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Swailes, Katy, Thien, Madeleine, 1974-, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: For Writers & Company's final, FINAL episode - A special event at the Blue Metropolis International Literary Festival in Montréal celebrating the show's 33 years. The award-winning Canadian novelist Madeleine Thien turns the tables and interviews Eleanor. Plus, an introduction to CBC Radio's newest literary show, Bookends with Mattea Roach.
Date: 2017-03-26
Name(s): Batuman, Elif, 1977-, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Turkish-American writer Elif Batuman talks with Eleanor Wachtel about her love of Russian literature and her new novel, The Idiot.
Date: 2003-02-09
Name(s): Howard, Elizabeth Jane, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Today on Writers & Company, Eleanor Wachtel interviews English novelist Elizabeth Jane Howard. Famous for the Cazalet Chronicle and a dozen other books, she turns now to her own life in her memoir, Slipstream.
Date: 2023-03-12
Name(s): McCracken, Elizabeth, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Over the past 30 years, American writer Elizabeth McCracken has become known for her extraordinary fiction imbued with insight, heart and humour. From her first novel, The Giant's House, to her most recent story collection, The Souvenir Museum: stories, she focuses on characters that are different, even eccentric. Her latest novel, The Hero of This Book, was inspired by her own marvellous mother. It was named a 'Best Book of the Year' by numerous publications including The Washington Post, NPR…
Date: 2018-11-11
Name(s): Ackerman, Elliot, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: After serving five tours of duty in Iraq and Afghanistan, American author Elliot Ackerman uses fiction to explore the devastating impacts of war. He talks to Eleanor Wachtel about his powerful new novel, Waiting for Eden.
Date: 2014-03-09
Name(s): Carrère, Emmanuel, 1957-, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Parisian writer Emmanuel Carrère is the author of compelling, often dark, books. But, as part of his personal evolution, he has become preoccupied with ideas of goodness.
Date: 1997-04-13
Name(s): Forster, Margaret, 1938-2016, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Eleanor interviews English writer Margaret Forster. From Georgy Girl to the biography of Daphne du Maurier, Forster has chronicled the lives of women in her fiction, biographies, and memoir.
Date: 1999-05-16
Name(s): Holmes, Richard, 1945-, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Eleanor Wachtel talks with Richard Holmes on his new biography about the poet Sameul Taylor Coleridge, considered one of England's greatest - and most extravagantly flawed - geniuses.
Date: 2008-11-16
Name(s): Caine, Michael, Leigh, Mike, 1943-, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: This week on Writers & Company, Eleanor Wachtel speaks with two idiosyncratic and wide-ranging movie makers from England: Mike Leigh - a man with a unique style whose latest film, Happy Go Lucky is already a hit - and one of Britain's best-loved actors, Michael Caine. Mike Leigh's latest film, Happy Go Lucky is in theatres now. And there's a new book, Mike Leigh on Mike Leigh , edited by Amy Raphael and published by Faber and Faber. Michael Caine's new movie is called Is There Anybody There?
Date: 2010-06-27
Name(s): Mitchell, David (David Stephen), Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Eleanor Wachtel speaks with the innovative English novelist David Mitchell. The author of the dazzling Cloud Atlas has a new book, set in 18th century Japan. It's called The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet.
Date: 2019-01-27
Name(s): Kinsky, Esther, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: German novelist, poet and translator, Esther Kinsky, won multiple prizes for her novel River when it was first published in Germany. Now available in English, it's earning wide acclaim for its haunting evocation of landscape and loss.
Date: 2010-01-24
Name(s): Hoffman, Eva, 1945-, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Eleanor Wachtel speaks with novelist, cultural commentator and historian, Eva Hoffman. The discussion ranges from her memoir of growing up in war-ravaged Poland to her exploration of Memory, History and the Legacy of the Holocaust. Eva Hoffman's newest book is called Time. Time is published by Picador.
Date: 2000-01-23
Name(s): Healy, Dermot, 1947-2014, Sante, Luc, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: "Fact or Fiction, Memoir or Novel: Two Unusual Family Histories." Irish novelist and playwright Dermot Healey talks about The Bend for Home. Also, from Belgium to New York, Luc Sante analyses his cultural mix in The Factory of Facts.
Date: 2020-10-04
Name(s): Bhutto, Fatima, 1982-, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Pakistani author Fatima Bhutto spoke with Eleanor Wachtel about growing up as part of the Bhutto dynasty, her family's painful legacy, and her new novel, The Runaways.
Date: 2019-09-29
Name(s): Rabinovitch, Sandra, Veiroj, Federico, 1976-, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Uruguayan filmmaker Federico Veiroj spoke to Eleanor Wachtel during TIFF 2019, shortly after the world premiere of his new movie, The Moneychanger.
