Date: 2013-12-01
Name(s): Gladwell, Malcolm, 1963-, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: This week: Eleanor Wachtel speaks with the inimitable Malcolm Gladwell. Once described as a geek pop star, his latest book, David and Goliath is about underdogs, misfits and the art of battling giants. Eleanor spoke with him onstage in front of a sold-out crowd in Montréal earlier this month.
Date: 2004-10-03
Name(s): Atwood, Margaret, 1939-, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Eleanor Wachtel talked with Margaret Atwood at the Royal Ontario Museum this past week as part of a benefit for World Literacy's 50th anniversary. They spoke about Atwood's new collection, Moving Targets: Writing with Intent, 1982 to 2004.
Date: 1993-10-24
Name(s): Atwood, Margaret, 1939-, Kavanagh, Peter, 1953-2016, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Eleanor Wachtel interviews award-winning Canadian novelist Margaret Atwood on her new book,The Robber Bride. Atwood gives two studio readings from the novel.
Date: 2007-01-07
Name(s): Atwood, Margaret, 1939-, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Writers & Company host Eleanor Wachtel talks with one of Canada's literary giants this week onstage at the International Festival of Authors - Margaret Atwood. Atwood talks about her new collection of stories, Moral Disorder, and everything from her parents to Canadian politics.
Date: 2001-05-13
Name(s): Drabble, Margaret, 1939-, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor, Wisse, Ruth R.
Description: The conclusion of Eleanor Wachtel's conversation with Margaret Drabble, recorded at the Blue Metropolis International Literary Festival in Montréal. This part focuses on Margaret Drabble's new novel, The Peppered Moth, and her attempts to come to terms with the life of her mother. Also, Eleanor Wachtel speaks with Montréaler Ruth Wisse about The Modern Jewish Canon and international cultural inheritance.
Date: 1996-09-22
Name(s): Drabble, Margaret, 1939-, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Eleanor Wachtel speaks with one of Britain's most popular novelists, Margaret Drabble. Five years after her trilogy chronicling Thatcher's England, Drabble has a new, playful novel called the The Witch of Exmoor.
Date: 2022-06-26
Name(s): Jefferson, Margo, 1947-, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Swailes, Katy, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Margo Jefferson's 2015 memoir, Negroland, chronicled her experiences growing up as part of Chicago's Black bourgeoisie in the 1950s and '60s. It won the National Book Critics Circle Award. Now, the Pulitzer Prize-winning critic has an acclaimed new title, Constructing A Nervous System. It's an innovative look at Jefferson's life and mind, as well as the artists, musicians and writers who shaped her. *Note: The audio for this episode was recorded during the Covid-19 lockdown and contains…
Date: 2021-01-31
Name(s): Livesey, Margot, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: The bestselling author of Eva Moves the Furniture and The House on Fortune Street talks to Eleanor Wachtel about her new novel, and about reimagining the life of her mother — and her fabled connection to the supernatural.
Date: 2006-02-12
Name(s): Fairweather, Maria, 1943-2010, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: This week on Writers and Company, host Eleanor Wachtel talks with biographer Maria Fairweather about the most influential woman in Europe at the turn of the 19th century - Madame de Staël. Madame de Staël was a unique figure in the artistic, intellectual and political life of her time. As someone who had a Paris salon in the late 18th and early 19th century, she knew everyone - from Napoleon to Byron to Goethe to Wellington. A writer, a letter writer, a powerful woman.
Date: 1990-11-11
Name(s): Homel, David, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor, Wiggins, Marianne
Description: INTERVIEW: Marianne Wiggins discusses her fiction and her novel, John Dollar: A Novel (1989, General). READING: Wiggins reads her unpublished essay "Welcome to Wales," about her time in hiding with husband Salman Rushdie. REPORT: David Homel discusses anglophone writing in Quebec (from Montreal).
Date: 2022-12-18
Name(s): Kreutzer, Marie, 1977-, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Swailes, Katy, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Marie Kreutzer is one of Austria's most important and established filmmakers. Her new movie, Corsage, probes the inner life of Empress Elizabeth of Austria-Hungary, an iconic figure in 19th-century history. She's been represented many times on screen, most recently in a Netflix series called "The Empress." Opening this month, Corsage has already garnered enthusiastic reviews and earned a Best Actress Award for its star, Vicky Krieps, at Cannes. Eleanor Wachtel spoke to Marie Kreutzer when the…
Date: 2004-11-28
Name(s): Robinson, Marilynne, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: This week on Writers & Company - Eleanor Wachtel in conversation with American writer Marilynne Robinson. The author of the extraordinary, award-winning Housekeeping has a new novel - her first in 24 years - called Gilead.
Date: 2013-01-13
Name(s): Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor, Warner, Marina, 1946-
Description: Mythographer and novelist Marina Warner discusses her new book, Stranger Magic: Charmed States & the Arabian Nights. In this interview, Warner talks about the exotic tales of the 1001 Arabian Nights, and how stories of Shahrazad have fuelled Western fantasies and imagination from the 18th century.
Date: 1999-05-02
Name(s): Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor, Warner, Marina, 1946-
Description: Eleanor Wachtel speaks with English historian and author Marina Warner about her new book, No Go the Bogeyman. It's a wide-ranging exploration of fear and mythology.
Date: 2013-03-31
Name(s): Silver, Marisa, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: American novelist and short story writer Marisa Silver was inspired by an iconic 1936 image of a migrant mother. She re-imagines the lives of the photographer and her subject in her new novel, Mary Coin.
