Date: 2016-12-11
Name(s): Dyer, Geoff, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Eleanor welcomes back one of Britain's wittiest and most audacious writers, Geoff Dyer. His latest book — a collection of essays called White Sands — is a humorous examination of travel, impermanence, and thwarted expectations.
Date: 2002-03-24
Name(s): Godfrey, Lisa, Wachtel, Eleanor, Wall, Geoffrey, 1950-
Description: This week on Writers & Company - a look at the life of the man who changed the direction of literature, Gustave Flaubert. Eleanor Wachtel talks to Geoffrey Wall, the latest biographer of the author of Madame Bovary.
Date: 2013-03-03
Name(s): Saunders, George, 1958-, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Today on Writers & Company, Eleanor Wachtel in conversation with American writer George Saunders. This MacArthur Fellowship winner - often considered a "writer's writer" - is an author who brings "a sense of humour, pathos and literary style all his own" to contemporary fiction. He's an original.
Date: 2014-11-09
Name(s): Cochran, Cate, 1955-, Franck, Julia, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Julia Franck was 18 when the Berlin Wall came down on November 9, 1989. Born in the East, and raised mostly in the West, her life and writing embody the divide between the two cultures.
Date: 1996-11-17
Name(s): Schneider, Peter, 1940-, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Interview with German author Peter Schneider. From The Wall Jumper to The German Comedy, novelist and political journalist Peter Schneider is a chronicler of the Berlin Wall and the German psyche. Now he has a new book called Couplings.
Date: 1997-04-20
Name(s): Mehta, Gita, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Today on Writers & Company, from India, via London and New York, novelist and essayist Gita Mehta. The author of Karma Cola, Raj, and A River Sutra has a new book. It's a celebration and critique of her homeland 50 years after independence, called Snakes & Ladders.
Date: 2022-10-09
Name(s): Riley, Gwendoline, Swailes, Katy, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Named one of the best working novelists in Britain and Ireland by the Times Literary Supplement, Gwendoline Riley is a master at depicting the subtle ways in which human beings can be cruel to each other — especially when they're family. She speaks with Eleanor Wachtel about her new novel My Phantoms and her award-winning previous book First Love.
Date: 2016-11-06
Name(s): Jin, Ha, 1956-, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Eleanor speaks with Chinese American writer, Ha Jin. Winner of the National Book Award and the Pen-Faulkner Prize, Jin talks about his new novel, The Boat Rocker; writing in English; and why he's not able to return to China.
Date: 2010-11-21
Name(s): Shaykh, Ḥanān, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: This week, Eleanor Wachtel speaks with the Lebanese novelist and playwright Hanan al-Shaykh. From Beirut Blues and Only in London, now she turns to her mother's life in her memoir, The Locust and the Bird. Al-Shaykh is known for exploring women's lives and sexuality in her surprising and controversial fiction. But she goes even further in The Locust and the Bird. Her mother, who had been forced to marry Hanan's father when she was just fourteen. She later left the family for her lover when…
Date: 2008-06-08
Name(s): Kunzru, Hari, 1969-, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Today on Writers & Company, Eleanor Wachtel talks with British writer Hari Kunzru. There was a bidding war for Hari Kunzru's first novel, The Impressionist - a war that resulted in a record-breaking advance of more than two million dollars. The book won several awards and was short-listed for others. The following year, 2003, Kunzru was included in Granta Magazine's list of Best Young British Novelists. His latest novel, My Revolutions, marks a bold break from his previous Anglo-Indian…
Date: 2017-03-12
Name(s): Kunzru, Hari, 1969-, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Eleanor speaks with British Indian novelist and journalist, Hari Kunzru. His latest book, White Tears, addresses the dark history of exploitation and greed in American blues music.
Date: 2015-03-15
Name(s): Cochran, Cate, 1955-, Macdonald, Helen, 1970-, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Today on Writers & Company - Eleanor Wachtel speaks with Helen Macdonald. English writer Helen Macdonald's book H is for Hawk is about nature in the human heart. It became the first memoir to win Britain's top non-fiction award, the Samuel Johnson Prize. It's a book, the judges said, unlike any other.
Date: 2014-05-25
Name(s): Oyeyemi, Helen, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Helen Oyeyemi exhibits her fascination with doubles and fairytales in her new novel - Boy, Snow, Bird - which takes a fresh look at the story of Snow White.
Date: 2010-01-17
Name(s): Lee, Hermione, Mallon, Thomas, 1951-, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: This week is about life stories. Thomas Mallon on his new book on the art of letter writing, and English biographer Hermione Lee. They'll talk about curiosity and its contents. Yours Ever: People and Their Letters by Thomas Mallon is published by Knopf. Biography: A Very Short Introduction by Hermione Lee is published in paperback by Oxford University Press.
Date: 2005-11-06
Name(s): Mantel, Hilary, 1952-2022, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: This week on Writers and Company, host Eleanor Wachtel talks with English writer Hilary Mantel. The surprising and extraordinarily candid novelist goes even further into the dark side of the psyche in her new novel, Beyond Black.
