Date: 1993-10-17
Name(s): Ignatieff, Michael, Kavanagh, Peter, 1953-2016, Shields, Carol, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: In this edition of Writers & Company, host Eleanor Wachtel speaks with two Canadian Authors whose books have been shortlisted for the prestigious Booker Prize. Part I: Canadian author Carol Shields talks about her latest novel, The Stone Diaries. After the interview she reads an excerpt from the book. Part II: Canadian author, journalist and academic Michael Ignatieff is interviewed from London, England. He talks about his novel Scar Tissue, and reads an excerpt from the book.
Date: 1992-01-26
Name(s): Cronenberg, David, 1943-, Leigh, Mike, 1943-, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: INTERVIEW: Canadian filmmaker David Cronenberg on the body horror genre and his adaptation of William S. Burroughs' novel Naked Lunch. INTERVIEW: British filmmaker Mike Leigh on his feature, Life is Sweet.
Date: 1997-05-25
Name(s): Adams, Alice, 1926-1999, Phillips, Caryl, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Part I: From England, Caryl Phillips. After his Booker short-listed novel about slavery and racism, Crossing the River, he has a new book about the Holocaust and anti-Semitism called The Nature of Blood. Part II: Popular fiction writer Alice Adams talks about love, doctors, and growing up in the South.
Date: 1991-03-31
Name(s): Copeland, Ann, Guadagni, Nicky, Murphy, Dervla, 1931-2022, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Summers, Merna, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: INTERVIEW: Global adventuring and her extraordinary life on the road, with Irish travel writer, Dervla Murphy. FEATURE: "Visions," a story of searching for miracles, by Canadian writer and former nun, Ann Copeland. Read by Canadian actress Nicky Guadagni. INTERVIEW: Canadian author Merna Summers reveals her surprising reading habit.
Date: 2000-06-04
Name(s): Doctorow, E. L., 1931-2015, Godfrey, Lisa, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor, Wright, Eric, 1929-2015
Description: Eleanor Wachtel interviews American novelist E. L. Doctorow, live onstage. Popular with readers and socially engaged, the author of Ragtime examines the question of faith in City of God. Also, Eleanor talks to crime writer Eric Wright about his memoir, Always Give a Penny to a Blind Man.
Date: 1999-02-14
Name(s): Feldman, Susan, Lovelace, Earl, 1935-, Munro, Alice, 1931-2024, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Part I; From Trinidad, the winner of last year's Commonweath Writer's Prize - Earl Lovelace. He talks about his award-winning novel Salt. Part II: Alice Munro talks about her early days in Vancouver and reads from her newest collection, The Love of a Good Woman.
Date: 1992-02-16
Name(s): Gardam, Jane, Iglauer, Edith, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Part I: English writer Jane Gardam discusses women, children, and madness in upper-class suburbia; Part II: Eleanor talks with Edith Iglauer who, for 30 years, has chronicled Canada for the New Yorker.
Date: 1991-09-15
Name(s): Daniels, Sarah, 1957-, Jaglom, Henry, 1939-, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Part I: Independent Hollywood filmmaker Henry Jaglom discusses his latest feature, Eating, and his idiosycratic career; Part II: British feminist playwright Sarah Daniels discusses her socially-relevant dramas, and performs monologues from "Masterpieces" and "Beside Herself" (collected in Methuen edition).
Date: 1991-10-20
Name(s): Rabinovitch, Sandra, Sayles, John, 1950-, Spurling, Hilary, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Part I: American independent filmmaker and writer John Sayles discusses his novel about Miami's Cuban community, Los Gusanos, and reads from Los Gusanos at Toronto's Harbourfront; Part II: Biographer Hilary Spurling discusses her study of Paul Scott, author of The Raj Quartet.
Date: 1992-09-06
Name(s): Adcock, Fleur, Ethier-Blais, Jean, Kelly, Greg, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: This season begins with two well-established writers who are relatively new to English Canada. From Québec, an eminent man of letters, Jean Éthier-Blais, and from New Zealand and England, poet Fleur Adcock.
Date: 1991-11-17
Name(s): Newby, Eric, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Schlöndorff, Volker, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Part I: British travel writer Eric Newby discusses his approach to travel and writing and reads from his '60s classic A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush; Part II: German feature filmmaker Volker Schlöndorff discusses his films and his newest work Voyager.
Date: 1993-02-14
Name(s): Aidoo, Ama Ata, 1942-2023, Lapham, Lewis H., Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Part I: Lewis Lapham, editor of Harper's Magazine, has revived the essay as a literary form. He talks with Eleanor about his life, politics, and literature. Part II: From Ghana, novelist Ama Ata Aidoo writes about modern African women and marriage. Aidoo reads from her new novel, Changes: a love story.
Date: 1994-02-06
Name(s): Enright, Anne, 1962-, McGahern, John, 1934-2006, Scanlan, Larry, 1948-, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Part I: John McGahern, a classic storyteller from Ireland, whose last novel, Amongst Women, won the Irish Fiction Prize and was shortlisted for a Booker. Part II: Eleanor talks with a surprising young writer from Dublin, Anne Enright.
Date: 1992-05-03
Name(s): Bradbury, Ray, 1920-2012, Heaney, Seamus, 1939-2013, Kelly, Greg, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Readings and an interview with the highly acclaimed Irish poet, Seamus Heaney. Heaney talks about poetry, conflict, and Northern Ireland, and reads several of his poems. Interview with the "Master of the Fantastic," science fiction writer and essayist Ray Bradbury.
Date: 1991-04-07
Name(s): Clements, Patricia, 1940-, Grundy, Isobel, MacLaverty, Bernard, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: An interview with Irish writer Bernard McLaverty, followed by McLaverty at Toronto International Festival of Authors, reading "The Miraculous Candidate" from his collection Secrets & Other Stories (1977, Blackstaff Press/Vintage); Then, an interview with Patricia Clements and Isobel Grundy, two of the editors of The Feminist Companion to Literature in English (1990, Batsford).
