Date: 2009-02-22
Name(s): O'Neill, Joseph, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: This week on Writers & Company, the literary sensation of the year - Joseph O'Neill. A writer with roots in Ireland, Holland, the United States and Turkey makes it big with a tale about cricket. Netherland by Joseph O'Neill is published by Pantheon.
Date: 1995-11-26
Name(s): Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938-, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Today on Writers & Company - Eleanor talks with American author Joyce Carol Oates. They discuss violence and psychopathy in her newest novel - her 24th - Zombie.
Date: 2019-02-03
Name(s): Stinson, Mary (Producer), Vásquez, Juan Gabriel, 1973-, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: The prize-winning author talks to Eleanor Wachtel about growing up in Bogotá during the height of Colombia's drug wars, and his new book, The Shape of the Ruins, which probes real-life political assassinations from his country's turbulent history.
Date: 1990-11-18
Name(s): Coulter, Clare, 1942-, Holloway, Anne, 1949-, King, Thomas, 1943-, Maracle, Lee, Moses, Daniel David, 1952-2020, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Thompson, Judith, 1954-, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: INTERVIEW: Judith Thompson discusses her theatre writing. READING: Clare Coulter and Anne Holloway perform a scene from Thompson's play "Lion in the Streets." PANEL: "Native Writing" - Thomas King, Daniel David Moses, and Lee Maracle discuss their work.
Date: 2000-04-30
Name(s): Godfrey, Lisa, Thurman, Judith, 1946-, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Secrets of the Flesh - A conversation with award-winning biographer Judith Thurman about the life of Colette - one of France's great novelists and personalities.
Date: 1996-05-05
Name(s): Barnes, Julian, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: The witty and erudite English novelist Julian Barnes - author of Flaubert's Parrot - has a new book of short stories. Cross Channel entertains readers with stories of the British in France from the late '70s to the early 21st century.
Date: 1991-10-27
Name(s): Barnes, Julian, Dearborn, Mary V., Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: READINGS and INTERVIEW: British novelist Julian Barnes talks about his novel Talking it Over and reads from the book at Harbourfront's Toronto Festival of Authors. INTERVIEW: Mary Dearboorn discusses her biography or writer Henry Miller, The Happiest Man Alive: A Biography of Henry Miller.
Date: 2016-06-05
Name(s): Barnes, Julian, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Eleanor speaks with English author Julian Barnes on stage at the Bluma Appel Salon in Toronto. The Booker prize-winning novelist, essayist and art critic talks about his latest book, The Noise of Time -- about beloved Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich.
Date: 2008-09-21
Name(s): Díaz, Junot, 1968-, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: This week on Writers and Company, host Eleanor Wachtel talks with Dominican-American writer Junot Díaz. His latest novel, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, won this year's Pulitzer Prize.
Date: 2007-11-11
Name(s): Cartwright, Justin, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: This week on Writers and Company, host Eleanor Wachtel talks with Justin Cartwright about his new novel The Song Before It Is Sung. Based on a true story, the novel brings to life the 1944 assassination plot against Hitler. Justin Cartwright also explores the themes of war, friendship, betrayal, and the dangers of nationalism.
Date: 2014-09-14
Name(s): Shamsie, Kamila, 1973-, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: This week, Eleanor Wachtel talks with writer Kamila Shamsie. Born and raised in Karachi, Pakistan, she now lives in London. Last year she was named on of Granta Magazine's Best Young Novelists. Her new novel, A God in Every Stone, crosses cultures and centuries to reveal the contradictions of empire in the aftermath of World War I.
Date: 2018-02-11
Name(s): Kassabova, Kapka, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Poet, travel writer and memoirist Kapka Kassabova talks to Eleanor Wachtel about returning to the forbidden borders of her communist childhood — between Bulgaria, Turkey and Greece — and engaging with the stories of the land and its people. Her book, Border: A Journey to the Edge of Europe, is a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award.
Date: 2016-09-11
Name(s): Mahajan, Karan, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: On the fifteenth anniversary of 9/11, Eleanor speaks with novelist Karan Mahajan about his powerful book, The Association of Small Bombs. Centred around a bomb attack in a New Delhi market, the novel explores grief, politics and terrorism.
Date: 2013-02-03
Name(s): Knausgård, Karl Ove, 1968-, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Karl Ove Knausgård's six volume memoir, My Struggle, has won every Norwegian prize, has been hailed a masterpiece and was called "the greatest account of our generation" by Norway's Culture Minister. Knausgård writes - and speaks - with raw honesty.
Date: 2006-11-05
Name(s): Grenville, Kate, 1950-, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: This week on Writers and Company, host Eleanor Wachtel talks with Australian author Kate Grenville. Her latest novel, The Secret River, was short-listed for the Booker Prize, and won this year's Commonwealth Prize. It's an evocative story about the early encounters between convicts and settlers and Australia's aboriginal people. Grenville's own great-great-great grandfather was 'transported' from England to Australia as a convict in 1806.
