Date: 2006-03-12
Name(s): Jamie, Kathleen, 1962-, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Eleanor Wachtel speaks with the award-winning Scottish poet and essayist, Kathleen Jamie. Her latest book, Findings, is, as one critic put it, "as close as you can get to a conversation with the natural world."
Date: 2018-09-30
Name(s): Harrison, Kathryn, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: From her painful relationship with her mother, to her sexual affair with her father, Kathryn Harrison's memoirs explore her troubled past with remarkable honesty and insight. Now her new book, On Sunset, tells the story of the unusual, well-travelled grandparents who raised her.
Date: 1995-10-15
Name(s): Ishiguro, Kazuo, 1954-, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Eleanor Wachtel talks with Japanese-British author Kazuo Ishiguro about cultural influences, ping pong, and his newest novel, The Unconsoled. Ishiguro reads from The Unconsoled at the University of Toronto
Date: 2015-03-29
Name(s): Ishiguro, Kazuo, 1954-, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Eleanor speaks with one of England's finest writers, Kazuo Ishiguro. His new book, The Buried Giant, is a story about love and memory and takes place in Anglo-Saxon England.
Date: 2000-09-10
Name(s): Ishiguro, Kazuo, 1954-, Pearson, Ian, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Kazuo Ishiguro is one of England's finest writers. His 1989 novel, The Remains of the Day, won the Booker Prize and was made into a movie starring Anthony Hopkins and Emma Thompson. On this occasion he speaks with Eleanor Wachtel about his latest book, When We Were Orphans.
Date: 2017-09-17
Name(s): Miller, Kei, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: The Jamaican poet, novelist and essayist spoke to Eleanor Wachtel about his award-winning collection The Cartographer Tries to Map a Way to Zion, and his imaginative new novel, Augustown.
Date: 2010-06-13
Name(s): Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor, Walsh, Keri
Description: This week, in honour of Bloomsday - the 24 hours of James Joyce's Ulysses - a look at the woman who coined the term and published the novel when no one else would - Sylvia Beach. The Letters of Sylvia Beach by Keri Walsh is published by Columbia University Press.
Date: 2001-04-29
Name(s): Foster, David, 1944-, Jackson, Kevin, 1955-2021, Wachtel, Eleanor, Wake, Hal
Description: This week, Invisible Forms: A Guide to Literary Curiosities - from footnotes to marginalia with England's Kevin Jackson. Also, more from Australia - its myths and the male psyche, with David Foster.
Date: 2018-03-11
Name(s): Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor, Young, Kevin, 1970-
Description: In his new book, African American poet and essayist Kevin Young traces the history of the hoax — from P. T. Barnum to made-up memoirs — making the case that hoaxes are embedded in race.
Date: 2019-01-06
Name(s): Laymon, Kiese, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Mississippi writer Kiese Laymon talks to Eleanor Wachtel about growing up black in the Deep South, his gambling addiction, and his lifelong struggle with weight and body image.
Date: 2006-10-29
Name(s): Desai, Kiran, 1971-, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: This week on Writers and Company, host Eleanor Wachtel talks with the winner of this year's Man Booker Prize, Kiran Desai, about her powerful and ambitious new novel, The Inheritance of Loss.
Date: 2010-11-07
Name(s): Fraser, Antonia, 1932-, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: This week on Writers and Company, Eleanor Wachtel talks with historical biographer Antonia Fraser. After writing books about power, religion and rebellion, Antonia Fraser has written what she calls a love story. It's a memoir of her 33-year relationship with the Nobel Prize-winning playwright Harold Pinter, called Must You Go?.
Date: 2017-02-05
Name(s): Rabinovitch, Sandra, Vapnyar, Lara, 1971-, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: What if the dead could still talk to the living? Eleanor Wachtel speaks with Russian American author Lara Vapnyar, whose latest novel, Still Here, explores life, death and social media among four immigrants to New York.
Date: 2021-09-19
Name(s): Binet, Laurent, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Laurent Binet is one of France's most celebrated contemporary writers. His new novel, Civilizations, goes back 500 years and imagines the Incas and Aztecs taking over Europe. He talks to Eleanor about reversing history and blurring the boundaries between truth and fiction. *Note: The audio for this episode was recorded during the Covid-19 lockdown and contains occasional low-level equipment-related distortion.
Date: 2018-10-21
Name(s): Anderson, Laurie, 1947-, Hastings, Sascha, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: The iconic musician and artist talks to Eleanor Wachtel about her early life, the New York arts scene of the 1970s and '80s, meeting her husband, Lou Reed, and why losing everything in the floods of Hurricane Sandy came as a blessing in disguise.
