Date: 2004-10-31
Name(s): Lahiri, Jhumpa, Panthaky, Rahnuma, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: This week on Writers and Company, host Eleanor Wachtel talks with Jhumpa Lahiri about her Pulitzer Prize-winning collection of stories, Interpreter of Maladies, and about her latest novel, The Namesake.
Date: 1998-09-27
Name(s): Conway, Jill K., 1934-2018, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: From Australia and the United States - historian, educator, and memoirist Jill Ker Conway. The author of the popular Road from Coorain has a new book about autobiography called When Memory Speaks.
Date: 1995-12-10
Name(s): Crace, Jim, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Today on Writers & Company, Eleanor Wachtel talks with English writer Jim Crace. His unusual, award-winning novels have been translated into 14 languages. His latest book, Signals of Distress, is an elegant evocation of a remote corner of coastal England in the 1830s.
Date: 2015-06-07
Name(s): Cochran, Cate, 1955-, Shepard, Jim, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: American writer Jim Shepard is described as "one of the finest (and most overlooked) writers." His new novel, The Book of Aron looks at the Holocaust - focusing on Jewish children in the Warsaw Ghetto.
Date: 1996-03-10
Name(s): Freccero, John, Pinsky, Robert, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Today, a look at Dante's Inferno. Readings by Robert Pinsky from his new book, The Inferno of Dante : a new verse translation. And a discussion with the "Dean of American Dante scholars," John Freccero, about why the Divine Comedy is up there with Shakespeare and the Bible.
Date: 2022-05-01
Name(s): Miller, Lucasta, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Swailes, Katy, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: John Keats died of tuberculosis at age 25 two centuries ago, but his poetry is still celebrated, studied and widely anthologized. His short but intense life has been the subject of many biographies, which all too often cast him as a delicate, tragic figure. Acclaimed literary biographer and critic Lucasta Miller discovers a different, more complex man in her new book, Keats: A Brief Life in Nine Poems and One Epitaph. *Note: The audio for this episode was recorded during the Covid-19 lockdown…
Date: 2012-10-21
Name(s): Lanchester, John, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: English writer John Lanchester's novel, Capital, is a big Dickensian take on modern London on the brink of the 2008 financial meltdown.
Date: 2017-09-10
Name(s): Le Carré, John, 1931-2020, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: The master of the political thriller talks to Eleanor Wachtel about his storied career as both a spy and a writer, and discusses his new book, A Legacy of Spies, which sees the return of his most iconic character, George Smiley.
Date: 2013-05-26
Name(s): Le Carré, John, 1931-2020, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: This week, a brand new interview with John Le Carré. We last spoke to him in 2010 and he was so articulate and charming that we were delighted to have a chance to speak with him again. His newest spy thriller, A Delicate Truth, is published by Viking.
Date: 2018-06-10
Name(s): Khemiri, Jonas Hassen, 1978-, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: The Swedish novelist and playwright Jonas Hassen Khemiri has received international acclaim for his innovative, politically charged work. Khemiri spoke with Eleanor Wachtel about his latest novel, Everything I Don't Remember, onstage at the Blue Metropolis Literary Festival in Montréal.
Date: 2010-11-14
Name(s): Franzen, Jonathan, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Jonathan Franzen is the first author in ten years to make the cover of Time magazine with the banner headline, Great American Novelist. Eleanor Wachtel spoke to him in 2001 about his bestseller, The Corrections. Now he has a new blockbuster, Freedom, which tracks the lives of an unconventional family through a time of crisis. Franzen speaks candidly with Eleanor Wachtel about the experiences that have fueled his current fiction: his "misfit" adolescent years and occasional struggle with…
Date: 2016-06-12
Name(s): Lee, Jonathan, 1981-, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Eleanor Wachtel speaks with English novelist Jonathan Lee about his new book, High Dive. The novel reimagines the 1984 assassination attempt of British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, known as "the Brighton bombing."
Date: 2004-10-17
Name(s): Lethem, Jonathan, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: This week on Writers and Company, host Eleanor Wachtel talks with award-winning American novelist Jonathan Lethem. Described as the "greatest living writer about New York," Lethem transcends genre, and mixes high and low, in his work - most recently, Motherless Brooklyn and The Fortress of Solitude.
Date: 1997-04-06
Name(s): Raban, Jonathan, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: English travel writer Jonathan Raban's portrait of the settlement of the American Plains of Montana. His book is called Bad Land: An American Romance, and last month it won the National Book Critics Circle Award. It's a moving history and meditation on the immigrant experience.
Date: 1998-03-22
Name(s): Heller, Joseph, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Eleanor Wachtel speaks with American novelist and screenwriter Joseph Heller. His book Catch-22 sold 10 million copies. Now Heller looks back on his life in a new memoir called Now and Then: From Coney Island to Here.
