Date: 1991-06-16
Name(s): Lively, Penelope, 1933-, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Schermbrucker, William Gerald, 1938-2019, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Part I: British author Penelope Lively reads from her novel City of the Mind and is interviewed; Part II: Canadian writer Bill Schermbrucker's secret reading habit: the classifieds; Part III: In honour of Bloomsday - a recorded from a Raidió Teilifís Éireann production (Dublin) of chapter 2 from James Joyce's Ulysses.
Date: 2007-04-08
Name(s): Eldridge, David, 1973-, Feldman, Susan, Loach, Ken, 1936-, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: This week on Writers and Company, host Eleanor Wachtel wraps up the special series from England with two voices with a working class perspective - up-and-coming playwright David Eldridge, and veteran film-maker Ken Loach.
Date: 1992-05-10
Name(s): Kelly, Greg, Rosenberg, David, 1943-, Simpson, Mona, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Part I: A Poet's Bible - David Rosenberg discusses and reads from his new translation of the Old Testament. Part II: Does absence make the heart grow fonder, or desperate? American novelist Mona Simpson tackles this question in her new novel, The Lost Father.
Date: 1996-12-15
Name(s): Amichai, Yehuda, Gunesekera, Romesh, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Eleanor speaks with Israel's number one poet, Yehuda Amichai. His own career as a poet parallels the life of his country. Part II: From Sri Lanka and London, Romesh Gunesekera. His Booker short-listed novel Reef is an evocative bittersweet tale of his war-torn country.
Date: 2001-10-21
Name(s): Carey, Peter, 1943-, Ford, Richard, 1944-, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: American writer Richard Ford goes from his last book, Women with Men, to his latest, A Multitude of Sins. Also, this year's Booker winner, Peter Carey, on True History of the Kelly Gang. *Peter Carey portion is a repeat from 22 April 2001.
Date: 1991-04-14
Name(s): Hempel, Amy, Moses, Daniel David, 1952-2020, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: An interview and readings from U.S. fiction writer Amy Hempel. Hempel reads from her story "Nashville Gone to Ashes" from her collection Reasons to Live (1985, Random House Canada); Then, an interview with Indigenous Canadian poet and playwright Dan Moses, who discusses his favourite "closet reading" - popular science magazines.
Date: 2007-01-21
Name(s): Crystal, David, 1941-, Kelly, Stuart, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: This week on Writers and Company, host Eleanor Wachtel talks with Edinburgh writer Stuart Kelly about his idiosyncratic view of literature. His book The Book of Lost Books is sub-titled An incomplete history of all the great books you will never read. From Homer to Sylvia Plath, from Shakespeare to Hemingway, great writers had written - or planned to write - works that are not available to us as readers. Whether lost, unfinished or un-started, these are the texts that tantalise Kelly's…
Date: 1998-04-05
Name(s): Lynch, Thomas, 1948-, Sebald, W. G. (Winfried Georg), 1944-2001, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Eleanor Wachtel interviews two unusual Authors. First, English-German writer W.G. Sebald about his requiem for a generation, The Emigrants.. Also, an interview with American poet, critic, and undertaker, Thomas Lynch. Lynch reads from his book The Undertaking: Life Studies from the Dismal Trade.
Date: 1999-12-05
Name(s): Coe, Jonathan, Lamb, Wally, Pearson, Ian, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Eleanor Wachtel talks to the popular American writer Wally Lamb - author of She's Come Undone and I Know This Much is True. Also, from London, the young novelist and critic Jonathan Coe. His books are entertaining, smart, and eccentric, and shot through with a political sensibility.
Date: 1996-10-27
Name(s): Kennedy, William, 1928-, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Swift, Graham, 1949-, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Interviews with two prize-winning novelists: Part I: American author William Kennedy follows his earlier success, Ironweed, with another in his Albany Cycle.; Part II: English writer Graham Swift is on the Booker shortlist again with Last Orders.
Date: 1993-04-18
Name(s): Feinstein, Elaine, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Rodriguez, Richard, 1944-, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Part I: The Americanization of Richard Rodriguez - in his new book, Rodriguez decribes his troubled relationship with his Mexican past. Part II: Biographer Elaine Feinstein talks about the women in D.H. Lawrence's life and fiction.
Date: 2009-02-08
Name(s): Nafisi, Azar, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Iranian writer Azar Nafisi is well known for her bestseller Reading Lolita in Tehran. She's followed up the success of that work with an enlightening new memoir called Things I've Been Silent About. It's a compelling story about her turbulent and obsessive relationship with her mother, about growing up in Iran and about the relationship between victim and oppressor. Tune in to Writers & Company this week as Nafisi shows how the personal mirrors the political in Iran.
Date: 2015-05-31
Name(s): Ryan, Donal, 1977-, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Today on Writers & Company, Eleanor talks with up-and-coming Irish novelist Donal Ryan. His work is being hailed as the next great thing from a highly literary nation. They talk about The Thing about December, and The Spinning Heart.
Date: 2004-09-19
Name(s): Hamilton, Hugo, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: This week on Writers and Company, host Eleanor Wachtel talks with with Hugo Hamilton about his novels The Last Shot and Headbanger, and about his memoir of a half-Irish childhood, The Speckled People.
Date: 2013-09-15
Name(s): Doyle, Roddy, 1958-, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Irish writer Roddy Doyle loves to talk - and his characters do too, in their own lively, expletive-ridden way. Doyle's new novel The Guts brings back Jimmy Rabbitte from the Barrytown Trilogy. There's life in the old boy yet.
