Date: 2022-06-12
Name(s): Rabinovitch, Sandra, Runcie, James, 1959-, Swailes, Katy, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: James Runcie's latest novel, The Great Passion, imagines a year in the life of Johann Sebastian Bach, culminating with the writing and first performance of his St. Matthew Passion in 1727. Told through the eyes of a fictional, 13-year-old student, it explores the man behind the legendary composer: an ambitious working musician and father of eight, coping with grief and loss, through faith and music. Runcie is also the author of the popular Grantchester Mystery series. *Note: The audio for this…
Date: 2016-01-10
Name(s): Shapiro, James, 1955-, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: To honour the 400th anniversary of the death of William Shakespeare, Eleanor speaks with scholar James Shapiro about his new book, The Year of Lear: Shakespeare in 1606, and one of the most creative periods in Shakespeare's life.
Date: 2009-09-27
Name(s): Campion, Jane, 1954-, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: This week on Writers & Company - Host Eleanor Wachtel talks to New Zealand filmmaker Jane Campion. The Oscar-winning writer and director of The Piano (1993) has a new movie about poet John Keats called Bright Star (2009).
Date: 1993-02-28
Name(s): Rabinovitch, Sandra, Smiley, Jane, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: A special program with American author Jane Smiley. Her latest book, A Thousand Acres, transposes Shakespeare's King Lear to an Iowa farm. It won both a Pulitzer Prize and a National Book Critics Circle Award.
Date: 2003-04-06
Name(s): Britton, Christopher, Smiley, Jane, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: A look at the life of Charles Dickens, the first celebrity novelist, through the eyes of the Pulitzer Prize-winning American writer Jane Smiley.
Date: 1996-01-14
Name(s): Butler, Marilyn, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Tomalin, Claire, Wachtel, Eleanor, Weldon, Fay
Description: With four of her six novels in adaptation for the screen, Jane Austen was considered the "hottest screenwriter" of the 1995 (200 years after her death!). In this episode, Eleanor Wachtel talks with three "Jane-ites", Fay Weldon (Letters to Alice on First Reading Jane Austen, 1984), Claire Tomalin (Jane Austen : a life, 1997), and Marilyn Butler (Jane Austen and the War of Ideas, 1988) on the popularity of Austen's work, and why it still resonates with the modern reader.
Date: 2022-03-20
Name(s): Mott, Jason, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Swailes, Katy, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: From tall tales to The Twilight Zone, Jason Mott likes stories about the real world turned slightly on its ear. His latest novel, Hell of a Book, is a bold mix of absurdist farce and powerful reflections on racism and police violence. Strikingly original and remarkably affecting, it won the 2021 U.S. National Book Award for Fiction. *Note: The audio for this episode was recorded during the Covid-19 lockdown and contains occasional low-level equipment-related distortion.
Date: 2000-01-30
Name(s): Godfrey, Lisa, Parini, Jay, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Eleanor Wachtel and biographer Jay Parini discuss the life and work of the great American poet, Robert Frost.
Date: 2012-02-05
Name(s): Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor, Winterson, Jeanette, 1959-
Description: This week on Writers and Company, host Eleanor Wachtel talks to Jeanette Winterson, author of Why Be Happy When You Could be Normal? Winterson reveals the true story behind her hit first novel, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit. Now, Jeanette Winterson turns again to her own life in a remarkably candid account of growing up with the woman she calls Mrs. Winterson, her adoptive mother. Her new book reveals the darker side of that childhood - while still being amazingly funny.
Date: 2001-02-11
Name(s): Godfrey, Lisa, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor, Winterson, Jeanette, 1959-
Description: Eleanor Wachtel interviews Jeanette Winterson - described as one of England's most outstanding, least modest, great Authors. The author of Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit and Written on the Body writes about e-romance in her latest novel, The Powerbook.
Date: 2003-03-02
Name(s): Eugenides, Jeffrey, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Host Eleanor Wachtel talks with Jeffrey Eugenides, creator of the most original coming-of-age stories, from the award-winning The Virgin Suicides to the recent Middlesex. Middlesex is about a hermaphrodite, but it couldn't be less sensational or more, in its way, old-fashioned.
Date: 2011-06-12
Name(s): Egan, Jennifer, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: This week on Writers and Company, Eleanor Wachtel speaks with the Pulitzer-prize winning American writer, Jennifer Egan. Her latest novel, A Visit from the Goon Squad, is a surprising, polyphonic tour de force.
Date: 2005-03-06
Name(s): Diski, Jenny, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: This week on Writers and Company, from England, an unusually candid writer, Jenny Diski. She writes novels, memoirs, travel books, essays and criticism. Her latest work, After These Things, is a fictionalised retelling of Genesis - the prototypical dysfunctional family.
Date: 2015-10-04
Name(s): Erpenbeck, Jenny, 1967-, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: This week on Writers & Company: Host Eleanor Wachtel in conversation with German novelist Jenny Erpenbeck. They discuss her life, work and her book The End of Days.
Date: 2004-02-15
Name(s): Hagedorn, Jessica, 1949-, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Eleanor Wachtel speaks with Filipino-American writer Jessica Hagedorn this week on Writers & Company. From her breakthrough novel Dogeaters to her new book, Dream Jungle, hers is an exuberant voice that chronicles a remarkable world.
