Date: 2018-09-16
Name(s): Osborne, Lawrence, 1958-, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: The English novelist and journalist talks to Eleanor Wachtel from his home in Bangkok about drawing inspiration from his nomadic lifestyle, and reinventing a literary icon in his new book, Only to Sleep: A Philip Marlowe Novel.
Date: 2018-10-28
Name(s): Child, Lee, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Bestselling author Lee Child speaks with Eleanor Wachtel about his life and about his novel, Past Tense, the latest book in his phenomenally successful Jack Reacher series.
Date: 1995-06-04
Name(s): Rabinovitch, Sandra, Scanlan, Larry, 1948-, Wachtel, Eleanor, Yevtushenko, Yevgeny Aleksandrovich, 1933-2017
Description: In this episode, Eleanor talks with the legendary Russian poet, Yevgeny Yevtushenko. Famous for his groundbreaking poems "Babi Yar" and "The Heirs of Stalin," Yevtushenko continues 30 years later to be a controversial writer and chronicler of his time.
Date: 2011-10-09
Name(s): Aboulela, Leila, 1964-, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Eleanor in conversation with Sudanese novelist, Leila Aboulela. Her latest novel, Lyrics Alley is set against against her country's struggle for independence from Britain and Egypt sixty years ago. A rich, multi-generational saga, at its core is a true story about Aboulela's own uncle who was a celebrated poet in the mid-20th century.
Date: 2023-06-18
Name(s): Slimani, Leïla, 1981-, Swailes, Katy, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: In 2016, French-Moroccan novelist Leïla Slimani won the Prix Goncourt for her provocative thriller, The Perfect Nanny (2018), which was named a Best Book of the Year by the New York Times Book Review and is currently being adapted into a limited series starring Nicole Kidman. Slimani's novel, In the Country of Others (2020), was the first of a planned trilogy – an intergenerational family saga set in Morocco after the Second World War. The forthcoming second volume, Watch Us Dance: A Novel (…
Date: 2017-04-23
Name(s): Rabinovitch, Sandra, Saunders, George, 1958-, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Eleanor sits down with American writer George Saunders onstage at the Toronto Reference Library. The master of the short story talks about writing his first novel, Lincoln in the Bardo, which unfolds in a graveyard over a single night in 1862.
Date: 1998-12-13
Name(s): Binchy, Maeve, 1940-2012, Gunesekera, Romesh, Page, P. K. (Patricia Kathleen), 1916-2010, Parks, Tim, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: This week: the End-of-Year Literary Panel. Eleanor Wachtel talks with four writers about the books they read as children, the books that changed their lives, and their favourite books for 1998. With Maeve Binchy, Romesh Gunesekera, P.K. Page, and Tim Parks.
Date: 2008-09-28
Name(s): Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor, Wood, James, 1965-
Description: This week on Writers and Company, host Eleanor Wachtel talks with literary critic and writer James Wood. Wood is one courageous critic - he's taken on Salman Rushdie, Toni Morrison and John Updike, to name a few. What trumps the controversy around his writing is his passion for fiction.
Date: 1999-12-12
Name(s): Glendinning, Victoria, Pullinger, Kate, Raban, Jonathan, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor, Ḥusain, ʻAbdullāh, 1931-2015
Description: Literary Panel 1999: An international panel of Authors talk about the books that made an impact on their lives, as children, as fledgling Authors, and during the past year. Guests include Victoria Glendinning, Abdullah Hussein, Kate Pullinger, and Jonathan Raban.
Date: 2000-12-10
Name(s): Banville, John, Enright, Anne, 1962-, Norfolk, Lawrence, 1963-, Phillips, Jayne Anne, 1952-, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Writers & Company's 4th Annual International Panel of Writers - they talk about the books that made a difference, from childhood 'til now. Guests are John Banville, Jayne Anne Phillips, Anne Enright, and Lawrence Norfolk.
Date: 2001-12-16
Name(s): Barfoot, Joan, Jamyang Norbu, Livesey, Margot, Rankin, Ian, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Our 2001 annual panel of writers on the books that made a difference in their lives, from childhood 'til now. Guests include Ian Rankin, Margot Livesey, Jamyang Norbu, and Joan Barfoot.
Date: 2002-12-22
Name(s): Miller, Andrew, 1961-, Negroni, María, 1951-, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Tóibín, Colm, 1955-, Wachtel, Eleanor, White, Edmund, 1940-
Description: The Holiday Panel: The sixth annual international panel of writers on the books that made a difference, from childhood 'til now, with Andrew Miller, Maria Negroni, Colm Tóibín and Edmund White.
Date: 1995-03-05
Name(s): Bloom, Harold, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: This week, Eleanor Wachtel speaks with one of the great American literary critics, Harold Bloom, about his love of literature and how it came to be at the centre of his life. His new book, The Western Canon, is an empassioned defence of reading the classics.
Date: 2002-06-02
Name(s): Grimbly, Susan, Mukherjee, Bharati, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Eleanor Wachtel talks to the award-winning American (and Canadian) writer, Bharati Mukherjee about her new novel Desirable Daughters. Highly autobiographical, it's about three sisters - wealthy, beautiful, Bengali, educated Brahmins from Calcutta.
Date: 2007-03-18
Name(s): Feldman, Susan, Hampton, Christopher, 1946-, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: This week on Writers and Company, part one of a series on London theatre. Host Eleanor Wachtel talks with playwright, screenwriter and director Christopher Hampton. From Dangerous Liaisons to The Quiet American, his work displays a lively intelligence and a classic vision.
