Date: 1998-04-19
Name(s): Stinson, Mary (Producer), Todd, Olivier, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Eleanor talks to Olivier Todd about his new biography on one of the best loved writers of the twentieth-century, Albert Camus - a man described as the "prophet of the Post Ideological age."
Date: 2017-04-02
Name(s): Rabinovitch, Sandra, Sattouf, Riad, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Eleanor speaks with the award-winning comic artist about growing up in Syria, Libya and France, and his bestselling graphic memoir, The Arab of the Future.
Date: 2023-05-28
Name(s): Rabinovitch, Sandra, Swailes, Katy, Wachtel, Eleanor, Wheeler, Sara
Description: One of Britain's foremost travel writers, Sara Wheeler has written bestselling books and biographies about the polar region and its famous expeditions, as well as the United States, Chile, Russia and Greece. Now, in Glowing Still: A Woman's Life on the Road, Wheeler turns the lens on herself, considering a life spent on the road and writing in what has historically been a male-dominated genre. Part memoir, part travelogue, Glowing Still spans seven continents and has been described as "funny,…
Date: 2022-03-27
Name(s): Polley, Sarah, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Swailes, Katy, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: From her beginnings as a young performer, to becoming an internationally acclaimed filmmaker herself, Sarah Polley has made bold, unusual choices in her work. Her first feature film, Away from Her, won multiple awards, while her personal documentary, Stories We Tell, was included in the Top Ten Canadian Films of All Time. Now she's published a powerful collection of personal essays called Run Towards the Danger: Confrontations With a Body of Memory. They probe some of the most difficult…
Date: 2023-01-08
Name(s): Chaudhuri, Amit, 1962-, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Amit Chaudhuri is considered one of the best Indian writers working today. A true renaissance man, he's a poet, essayist and musician, as well as the author of exquisite fiction. As the late Hilary Mantel described him, Chaudhuri "has, like Proust, perfected the art of the moment." His latest book, Sojourn - set in Berlin - is an evocative meditation on place and memory. Amit Chaudhuri spoke to Eleanor Wachtel from his home in Kolkata, India.
Date: 2021-11-28
Name(s): Jacobsen, Roy, 1954-, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: This week, from Norway, Eleanor Wachtel talks with Roy Jacobsen. From Norse sagas to family sagas, he's one of his country's most celebrated contemporary writers. His novel The Unseen — the first in a series set on a remote island off the coast of Norway — was shortlisted for the International Booker Prize and the International Dublin Literary Award. He joins Eleanor to discuss the multi-generational chronicle, which focuses on a strong young woman's coming-of-age through times of war and loss…
Date: 1993-11-28
Name(s): Gibson, William, 1948-, Kavanagh, Peter, 1953-2016, Sagan, Carl, 1934-1996, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Eleanor Wachtel interviews American astronomer and science communicator Carl Sagan on hope and being human. They discuss his new book, Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors: A Search for Who We Are. Then, an interview with American-Canadian science fiction novelist William Gibson and a reading from his cyberpunk thriller novel, Virtual Light.
Date: 2020-06-28
Name(s): Rabinovitch, Sandra, Truong, Monique T. D., Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Vietnamese American writer Monique Truong spoke with Eleanor Wachtel about the meaning of food in her life and work, and why writes about characters in the margins of history.
Date: 2019-05-26
Name(s): Proulx, Annie, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Award-winning American author Annie Proulx talks to Eleanor Wachtel onstage in Montréal about her Canadian connections, and how the natural world informs her writing - and her life.
Date: 2005-12-04
Name(s): Foer, Jonathan Safran, 1977-, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: This week on Writers and Company, host Eleanor Wachtel talks with the American wunderkind, Jonathan Safran Foer. His dazzling first novel, Everything is Illuminated, has just been made into a movie. He has a new book, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, which follows 9 year-old Oskar as he roams New York City, looking for the lock that matches a key he found amongst his father's possessions after he was killed in the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center.
Date: 2000-05-28
Name(s): Burnard, Bonnie, Crozier, Lorna, 1948-, Malouf, David, 1934-, Richards, David Adams, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Urquhart, Jane, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: From the Victoria Literary Arts Festival - "Eyes on the Prize": Five writers in conversation with Eleanor Wachtel, talking about the joys and pitfalls of winning literary prizes: Jane Urquhart, David Adams Richards, Lorna Crozier, Bonnie Burnard and David Malouf.
Date: 2020-02-23
Name(s): Matar, Hisham, 1970-, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Hisham Matar's Pulitzer Prize-winning memoir, The Return, is about his return to his native Libya to search for the truth behind the disappearance of his father, a prominent political dissident of the Gaddafi regime. Now Matar has written a new book - A Month in Siena - about a more recent journey and a meditation on the relationship between history and art, grief and consolation. Matar joins Eleanor to talk about his new book and his life.
Date: 2020-04-26
Name(s): Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor, Wade, Francesca
Description: Francesca Wade speaks with Eleanor Wachtel about her acclaimed book, Square Haunting: Five Lives in London Between the Wars, which looks into the lives of groundbreaking women writers who all lived in London's Mecklenburgh Square during and between the world wars.
Date: 2017-12-10
Name(s): Gurnah, Abdulrazak, 1948-, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Abdulrazak Gurnah writes about immigrant life, dislocation, power and shame. He talks to Eleanor about his new book Gravel Heart — a powerful story of a young man's experience as an immigrant to England, which reflects elements of Gurnah's own life.
Date: 2009-10-04
Name(s): Dyer, Geoff, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: This week, from London, one of the wittiest and most audacious writers, Geoff Dyer. Dyer's unique mix of autobiography, fiction, travel writing and cultural
criticism defies genre or categorization. His latest novel, Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi, has a very powerful engagement with geographic locales -first Venice during the international arts fair, the Biennale, and then Vārānasi -or what used to be called Benares-in India, the city on the Ganges where Hindus burn their dead (to escape…
