Date: 2000-12-17
Name(s): Drabble, Margaret, 1939-, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Rowling, J.K, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Eleanor Wachtel speaks with England's J.K. Rowling about the complex world of magic in her best selling Harry Potter series. Also, novelist and biographer, Margaret Drabble on the new Oxford Companion to English Literature. The Harry Potter series is published in Canada by Raincoast Books. The Oxford Companion to English Literature is published by Oxford University Press.
Date: 1994-11-20
Name(s): Handler, Richard, 1950-, Keegan, John, 1934-2012, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Richlings, Julian, Scanlan, Larry, 1948-, Varughese, Sugith, 1958-, Vassanji, M. G., Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Part I: 4000 years of war with one of Britain's leading military historians, John Keegan. Part II: M.G. Vassanji's ambitious novel, The Book of Secrets, is winning praise and prizes. Included in this episode is a scene from The Book of Secrets, performed by Julian Richings and Sugith Varughese.
Date: 1994-04-17
Name(s): Jamison, Kay R., McPhee, John, 1931-, Scanlan, Larry, 1948-, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Today on Writers & Company - Part I: John McPhee, described by the New York Times as the most versatile journalist in America, talks about the craft of writing and about earthquakes. Part II: Eleanor talks to clinical psychologist and author Kay Redfield Jamison about the link between manic depressive illness and the artistic temperament.
Date: 1992-04-26
Name(s): Kelly, Greg, Kogawa, Joy, Shelden, Michael, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: An interview with Japanese-Canadian novelist Joy Kogawa about her new novel, Itsuka. An interview with the biographer Michael Shelden on his new book Orwell: The Authorised Biography
Date: 1994-04-24
Name(s): Hamilton, Ian, 1938-2001, Millett, Kate, Scanlan, Larry, 1948-, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Part I: American feminist activist Kate Millett looks at torture in her new book, The Politics of Cruelty. It's an essay on the literature of political imprisonment. Part II: British writer Ian Hamilton on the perils of literary biography and his new book, Keepers of the Flame.
Date: 2007-01-14
Name(s): Haddon, Mark, 1962-, James, P. D., Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Eleanor Wachtel talks with English novelist Mark Haddon this week on Writers & Company. The author of the extraordinarily successful The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, has a new novel called A Spot of Bother. Also, crime writer P.D. James on the book behind the hit new movie Children of Men.
Date: 2001-12-02
Name(s): Kneale, Matthew, 1960-, Pearson, Ian, Potok, Chaim, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Eleanor Wachtel speaks with the Whitbread Prize winner Matthew Kneale. He talks about English Passengers - his ambitious novel about 19th century Tasmania. Also, American novelist Chaim Potok - famous for The Chosen and My Name is Asher Lev. His latest book is called Old Men at Midnight.
Date: 1992-12-20
Name(s): Gray, Spalding, 1941-2004, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Souhami, Diana, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: American monologist and writer Spalding Gray discusses his writing process. British biographer Diana Souhami talks about her biography of Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas.
Date: 1994-12-18
Name(s): Hollinghurst, Alan, Mosley, Walter, Scanlan, Larry, 1948-, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Part I: Walter Moseley - labelled one of the world's top mystery writers by the New York Times - has a new novel out called Black Betty. He's carved out new fictional territory in the Black experience of post-war Los Angeles. Part II: England's Alan Hollinghurst talks about and reads from his novel The Folding Star, which follows an English language tutor in Flanders as he navigates falling in love with one of his male students.
Date: 1993-04-11
Name(s): Phillips, Caryl, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor, Wolpert, L. (Lewis)
Description: Part I: Eleanor Wachtel speaks with novelist and playwright Caryl Phillips about his latest book, Cambridge - a picture of slavery in the Caribbean from shifting perspectives. Part II: British developmental biologist Lewis Wolpert talks about why science does not make sense in his new book, The Unnatural Nature of Science.
Date: 1991-05-19
Name(s): Brossard, Nicole, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Seth, Vikram, 1952-, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Part I: Writer and poet Vikram Seth discusses his life and work. He also reads from his novel, The Golden Gate, and reads "Work and Freedom," "Soon," and the title poem from his collection All You Who Sleep Tonight; Part 2: French-Canadian author Nicole Brossard's talks about her closet reading habit -- the sports section.
Date: 1993-03-07
Name(s): Blaise, Clark, Raban, Jonathan, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Part I: Novelist and short story writer Clark Blaise explores his relationship with his father in a new, remarkably candid memoir. Part II: Travel writer Jonathan Raban talks about an anthology of writing about the sea.
Date: 1993-11-14
Name(s): Beauman, Nicola, 1944-, Kavanagh, Peter, 1953-2016, Mukherjee, Bharati, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Part I: East Indian American author Bharati Mukherjee talks about her own journey from India to America, and how the woman at the center of her new novel makes the reverse voyage. Part II: English biographer Nicola Beauman discusses the life of E.M. Forster.
Date: 2000-06-11
Name(s): Burnard, Bonnie, Pearson, Ian, Sage, Lorna, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: A Good House, with Giller Award-winning novelist Bonnie Burnard. Also, who's who and where's she from - English critic Lorna Sage on The Cambridge Guide to Women's Writing in English.
Date: 1994-12-04
Name(s): Page, P. K. (Patricia Kathleen), 1916-2010, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Scanlan, Larry, 1948-, Shange, Ntozake, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Part I: Eleanor interviews a visionary writer with a rigorous sense of control - Canadian poet P.K. Page. Part II: Ntozake Shange, famous for her play "For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf", talks about her new book called Liliane.
