Date: 2007-03-25
Name(s): Feldman, Susan, Wachtel, Eleanor, Wright, Nicholas, 1940-
Description: This week on Writers and Company, host Eleanor Wachtel continues her exploration of the London theatre scene in a conversation with Nicholas Wright. He's been described by Time Out magazine as "one of the great unsung heroes of British theatre." His latest play is about the mysterious suicide of a star BBC reporter.
Date: 2013-10-20
Name(s): Rabinovitch, Sandra, Segal, Lore Groszmann, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Lore Segal's 1964 memoir, Other People's Houses, is a sharp and moving account of her time as a 'Kindertransport' child in England during World War II. Now, at 85, she has a quirky new novel called Half the Kingdom.
Date: 1997-01-26
Name(s): Begley, Louis, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: American novelist Louis Begley brings a different voice to his account of surviving the Holocaust in his prize-winning novel Wartime Lies. Eleanor Wachtel talks to him about that book and his newest novel, About Schmidt.
Date: 1995-06-11
Name(s): Erdrich, Louise, Scanlan, Larry, 1948-, Wachtel, Eleanor, Willinsky, John, 1950-
Description: PART I: American author Louise Erdrich talks about a year in her life. From a winter pregnancy through a spring and summer of new motherhood.. PART II: John Willinsky talks about he cultural domination of the mother-of-all reference sources, the Oxford English Dictionary.
Date: 2001-09-09
Name(s): Boylan, Clare, Kennedy, A. L., McEwan, Ian, Selvadurai, Shyam, 1965-, Spalding, Esta, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Sullivan, Rosemary, 1947-, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Last spring at the International Literary Festival in Victoria, Eleanor Wachtel hosted a panel inspired by Rosemary Sullivan's latest book, Labyrinth of Desire: Women, Passion, and Romantic Obsession. The panel - called "Love in the Afternoon" - included six writers who came together to talk about love in life and literature. Host Eleanor Wachtel talks about grappling with romance and writing with the English Booker Prize-winning writer Ian McEwan, Irish novelist Clare Boylan, Scottish writer A…
Date: 2007-06-10
Name(s): Davis, Lydia, 1947-, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: This week on Writers and Company, host Eleanor Wachtel talks with Lydia Davis at the Blue Metropolis Literary Festival, which was held in Montréal. Her stories often feature ambivalent relationships between mothers and children, and today she reveals the influence her own life has had on her writing.
Date: 2021-03-14
Name(s): Millet, Lydia, 1968-, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: American novelist Lydia Millet tells a prophetic story imbued with wit and urgency in her latest book, The Children's Bible, which was inspired by the passion of young climate activists. Millet speaks with Eleanor Wachtel about why she welcomes their anger.
Date: 2004-12-05
Name(s): Feinstein, Adam, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Truss, Lynne, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: This week on Writers & Company - the unlikely bestseller Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation. Eleanor Wachtel talks with Lynne Truss, the author of the wildly popular book about punctuation and grammar. Truss expresses her righteous indignation about falling grammatical standards in a way that is delightfully amusing, and only slightly snobbish. Includes a clip of Victor Borge's "Phontetic Punctuation" sketch, and a preview of next week's discussion on…
Date: 2021-09-26
Name(s): Godin, M. Leona, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: While gradually losing her own sight, M. Leona Godin began to question our notions of blindness and the cultural stereotypes associated with it. In her new book, There Plant Eyes: A Personal and Cultural History of Blindness, Godin examines the theme of sight and sightlessness in great works - from the Greek tragedy Oedipus Rex to Shakespeare's King Lear to Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre. Godin talks to Eleanor Wachtel about how the actual experience of blindness is too often misunderstood or…
Date: 2020-03-22
Name(s): Mengiste, Maaza, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: In her new novel, The Shadow King, the Ethiopian American author draws on surprising discoveries about the role of women during Italy's 1935 invasion of Ethiopia.
Date: 2023-05-21
Name(s): Barenboim, Daniel, 1942-, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Swailes, Katy, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Daniel Barenboim has been conductor of the Orchestra of Paris and musical director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, as well as the Berlin State Opera, a position he held for three decades. Along with the Palestinian-American intellectual Edward Said, Barenboim created the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, bringing together young musicians from the Middle East, especially Israel and the Arab world. Speaking to Eleanor Wachtel from Milan in 2008, he talked about the orchestra's historic 2005…
Date: 2005-01-09
Name(s): Drabble, Margaret, 1939-, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: This week on Writers and Company, host Eleanor Wachtel talks with the popular and prolific English novelist, Margaret Drabble. Her latest book, The Red Queen, is about Korea in the 18th and 21st centuries.
Date: 2011-02-20
Name(s): O'Farrell, Maggie, 1972-, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: This week, a conversation with the prize-winning novelist, Maggie O'Farrell. O'Farrell's fifth book, The Hand That First Held Mine, won Britain's Costa Award for Best Novel. Her first book, After You'd Gone, won the Betty Trask Award. Her books about independent women, set in the past and the present, are literary page-turners. The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox and The Hand That First Held Mine are published by Headline.
Date: 2010-01-10
Name(s): Aw, Tash, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: This week, from Malaysia and London, Tash Aw. His first novel, The Harmony Silk Factory looked back at Malaysia during the Second World War. His new book, Map of the Invisible World, evokes Indonesia on the brink of the "Year of Living Dangerously." Map of the Invisible World is published by McClelland & Stewart.
Date: 2008-12-07
Name(s): Gladwell, Malcolm, 1963-, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: This week on Writers & Company: hear a story of success by someone who knows it well... Malcolm Gladwell is the author of the mega hits The Tipping Point and Blink. Now he's written a new book called Outliers. Join Writers & Company as Gladwell takes listeners on a journey through his career- from his early work to his recent accomplishments.
