Date: 2009-11-08
Name(s): Rabinovitch, Sandra, Schulze, Ingo, 1962-, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: This week on Writers & Company - From Berlin, Ingo Schulze. Twenty years after the end of the wall, a re-imagining of life in the former East Germany by one of the country's best writers. New Lives by Ingo Schulze is available in paperback from Knopf Doubleday.
Date: 1993-06-06
Name(s): Godfrey, Lisa, O'Brien, Edna, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: This week: the first episode of a special series with international short story writers. Edna O'Brien - one of the world's great short story writers - has been writing for 30 years. Her stories are set in the heartland of Ireland, and almost always about women.
Date: 1993-06-13
Name(s): Erdrich, Louise, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: International Short Story Writers, part 2, with Native American writer Louise Edrich. She discusses her life and her stories and novels, which portray a complex interweave of different voices and cultures.
Date: 1993-06-20
Name(s): Ballard, J. G., 1930-2009, Kavanagh, Peter, 1953-2016, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: International Short Story Series, Part : Today on Writers & Company, host Eleanor Wachtel interviews British author J.G. Ballard. Along with his science fiction, J.G. Ballard is widely known for his semi-autobiographical novel The Empire Of The Sun. Third in the international short story series. Following the interview, J.G. Ballard reads "The Enormous Space," from the collection War Fever.
Date: 1993-09-26
Name(s): Kavanagh, Peter, 1953-2016, Kincaid, Jamaica, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: In a continuation of the series on International Short Story Writers - from Antigua and Vermont - Jamaica Kincaid. She talks about familial relationships, her book Lucy and reads "Somewhere, Belgium" from Annie John.
Date: 1993-10-03
Name(s): Kavanagh, Peter, 1953-2016, Paley, Grace, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Next in the series on International Short Story Writers - American writer Grace Paley. She talks with Eleanor about her life and work and reads two short stories, "A Conversation with my Father" and "Listening."
Date: 1993-10-10
Name(s): Kavanagh, Peter, 1953-2016, Wachtel, Eleanor, Wideman, John Edgar
Description: Writers & Company wraps up this special series on International Short Story Writers with American author John Edgar Wideman. He's been called the leading chronicler of urban African-American life. Wideman reads from the beginning of his collection All Stories are True.
Date: 1993-09-19
Name(s): Allende, Isabel, Kavanagh, Peter, 1953-2016, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: International Short Story Series, Part : Today on Writers & Company, host Eleanor Wachtel talks with Chilean-American novelist Isabel Allende. There are readings of two of Isabel Allende's works: from The Infinite Plan, and "Our Secret" from the collection The Stories of Eva Luna.
Date: 1995-04-02
Name(s): Rabinovitch, Sandra, Scanlan, Larry, 1948-, Wachtel, Eleanor, Wolff, Tobias, 1945-
Description: Award-winning American writer Tobias Wolff. The author of a witty and moving memoir, This Boy's Life, has a vivid and painfully honest new book about his experience in Vietnam. It's called In Pharaoh's Army.
Date: 1992-11-29
Name(s): Boyle, Nicholas, James, P. D., Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Today on Writers & Company - An interview with British crime novelist P.D. James. Also, an interview with British biographer Nicholas Boyle about the life of the German writer, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
Date: 1994-09-11
Name(s): Bainbridge, Beryl, 1932-2010, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Eleanor Wachtel talks with British writer Beryl Bainbridge about her life and work. She gives two readings from her novel, The Birthday Boys - a fictional account of Scott's British Antarctic ("Terra Nova") Expedition (1910-1913).
Date: 1998-11-08
Name(s): Ondaatje, Michael, 1943-, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Interview with Sri Lankan-born Canadian author Michael Ondaatje on his new book of poetry, Handwriting.
Date: 2000-01-09
Name(s): Postman, Neil, Wachtel, Eleanor, Wake, Hal
Description: Eleanor Wachtel interviews communications theorist Neil Postman. The author of Amusing Ourselves to Death has a new book on how the past can improve our future, called Building a Bridge to the 18th Century.
Date: 1994-06-26
Name(s): Leeming, David Adams, 1937-, Lopate, Phillip, 1943-, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Part I: American novelist, poet, and critic, Phillip Lopate talks about why the non-fiction personal essay is his favourite form. Part II: David Leeming worked with James Baldwin as a secretary-assistant in the mid 1960s. They became friends and after Baldwin's death in 1987 Leeming decided to write a biography. This episode includes a recording of Baldwin reading from his work Giovanni's Room.
Date: 1992-05-31
Name(s): D'Aguiar, Fred, 1960-, Fukuyama, Francis, Kelly, Greg, Schiller, Herbert I., 1919-2000, Stone, Norman, 1941-2019, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Interview with Guyanese-British poet Fred D'Aguiar - discusses his collections Airy Hall (1989) and Mama Dot (1985). Interview with political analyst Francis Fukuyama on his book The End of History (1992), followed by a discussion with Fukuyama, sociologist and media critic Herbert Schiller, and historian Norman Stone.
