Date: 1992-02-09
Name(s): Fiedler, Leslie A., Rabinovitch, Sandra, Tremlett, George, 1939-, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Interview with cultural and literary critic and "provocateur" Leslie Fiedler (Fiedler on the Roof: Essays on Literature and Jewish Identity , OUP). Interview with British biographer George Tremlett on Welsh poet and writer, Dylan Thomas (Dylan Thomas: In the Mercy of His Means, Constable/M&S)
Date: 1993-05-23
Name(s): Brodsky, Joseph, 1940-1996, Godfrey, Lisa, Ingram, Jay, McArthur, Tom (Thomas Burns), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Includes telephone interview by host Eleanor Wachtel with the Nobel Prize-winning Russian-American poet and essayist, Joseph Brodsky. After experiencing antisemitism, repression, and imprisonment as a "social parasite" in the 1960s, he was exiled from the Soviet Union. He eventually settled in the United States and won the 1987 Nobel Prize for Literature.. Also, a discussion with two experts on the world's fastest growing language - English.
Date: 2001-04-01
Name(s): Brody, Hugh, Pearson, Ian, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Eleanor Wachtel talks to social anthropologist, film maker, and writer, Hugh Brody, about Hunters, Farmers, and the Shaping of the World. Brody writes fiction and non-fiction - a mix of memoir, ethnology, and philosophical reflection. His latest book is The Other Side of Eden.
Date: 1996-12-01
Name(s): Brink, André P. (André Philippus), 1935-2015, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Eleanor Wachtel interviews South African novelist André Brink. Famous for A Dry White Season, he's an Afrikaans writer who's been committed to social change for more than 30 years. Now Brink has a new novel, Imaginings of Sand, set during South Africa's first free election.
Date: 1996-03-31
Name(s): Carey, John, 1934-, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Thornton, Lawrence, 1937-, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Part I: American author Lawrence Thornton. His compassionate evocations of Argentina under military rule are powerful stories about the Disappeared.; Part II: British critic and author John Carey talks about science writers and his new anthology, The Faber Book of Science.
Date: 1992-01-12
Name(s): Banks, Russell, 1940-2023, Gordon, Mary, 1949-, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: INTERVIEW & READING: An interview with American author Russell Banks, then a reading from his novel The Sweet Hereafter. Interview: American author Mary Gordon discusses her essay collection, Good Boys and Dead Girls: And Other Essays.
Date: 1992-05-24
Name(s): Ayckbourn, Alan, 1939-, Feldman, Susan, Kelly, Greg, Merwin, W. S. (William Stanley), 1927-2019, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Part I: An interview with master of language, American poet W.S. Merwin - he has a new book of stories that captures a lost France. Merwin does a reading at the Toronto International Festival of Authors. Part II: An interview with England's most successful playwright, Alan Ayckbourn.
Date: 1991-11-10
Name(s): Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: INTERVIEW and READING: American writer Andre Dubus discusses the themes of masculine identity and physical disability in his collection of personal essays, Broken Vessels. Dubus reads from his essay "Husbands.". INTERVIEW: American historian Simon Schama discusses his fact-based novel Dead Certainties (Unwarranted Speculations).
Date: 1997-05-04
Name(s): MacDonald, Ann-Marie, 1958-, Shattuck, Roger, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Part I: Canadian novelist Ann-Marie Macdonald captures the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best First Book with Fall On Your Knees. Part II: American critic Roger Shattuck talks about his new book, Forbidden Knowledge: From Prometheus to Pornography, Are There Things We should Not Know?
Date: 1999-05-23
Name(s): Godfrey, Lisa, McGrath, Charles, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Richler, Mordecai, 1931-2001, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Part I: Mordecai Then and Now - The entertaining and irascible Mordecai Richler with his award-winning novel Barney's Version and his recent book of essays, Belling the Cat. Part II: Charles McGrath on 100 years of the New York Times Book Review.
Date: 1993-12-12
Name(s): Kavanagh, Peter, 1953-2016, Larkin, Philip, Mason, Bobbie Ann, Motion, Andrew, 1952-, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Part I: Kentucky author Bobbie Ann Mason discusses and reads from her new novel about turn-of-the-century quintuplets, called Feather Crowns. Part II: Biographer Andrew Motion talks about the life of the controversial English poet Philip Larkin.
Date: 1994-02-20
Name(s): Mehta, Linn Cary, Mehta, Ved, 1934-2021, Scanlan, Larry, 1948-, Sprawson, Charles, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Part I: Ever since he left India to attend a school for the blind, Ved Mehta has been chronicling his life and times in a series of books he calls Continents of Exile. He talks with Eleanor about his life and writing. Part II: Charles Sprawson talks about the love of water and the swimmer as hero.
Date: 1993-02-21
Name(s): Moore, Lorrie, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Thwaite, Anthony, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Part I: Biographer Anthony Thwaite on the preeminent poet of post-war Britain, Philip Larkin; Part II: An interview and reading with one of the most original and risk-taking young American writers, Lorrie Moore.
Date: 1994-11-13
Name(s): De Bernières, Louis, Gordon, Lyndall, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Part I: British biographer Lyndall Gordon about her defiant biography of Charlotte Brontë. Part II: British writer Louis de Bernières has a new novel set on a Greek island during World War II - Captain Corelli's Mandolin. It follows his highly successful Latin American trilogy.
Date: 1993-05-30
Name(s): Fenton, James, 1949-, Godfrey, Lisa, Miller, Sue, 1943-, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Part I: British poet and journalist James Fenton discusses his writings on war - and peace - in Southeast Asia. Part II: The popular American novelist Sue Miller has a new book called For Love.
