Date: 2014-09-28
Name(s): Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor, Ward, Jesmyn
Description: Eleanor interviews American author Jesmyn Ward. Guernica Magazine said of her, "Ward has a sharp eye for moments of quiet joy and everyday intimacy." Her National Book Award winner, Salvage the Bones is an intimate and compelling look at Hurricane Katrina and the American south.
Date: 1998-05-03
Name(s): Feldman, Susan, Hare, David, 1947-, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Eleanor Wachtel interviews English playwright and director David Hare live onstage. From postwar disillusion in Plenty, to Oscar Wilde in The Judas Kiss, Hare is a man of political ideas and romantic passion.
Date: 1994-11-06
Name(s): Doctorow, E. L., 1931-2015, Scanlan, Larry, 1948-, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: This week on Writers & Company, Eleanor Wachtel interviews American novelist E.L. Doctorow. The popular, socially engaged, and intensely readable, author of Ragtime and Billy Bathgate has a new novel set in nineteenth-century, post-Civil War New York City.
Date: 2010-06-20
Name(s): Feiffer, Jules, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: This week, Eleanor Wachtel's conversation with the cartoonist, playwright and screenwriter, Jules Feiffer on his new memoir, Backing into Forward. Backing into Forward is available from Random House.
Date: 2012-11-25
Name(s): Lebowitz, Fran, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: In a candid and personal conversation, cultural commentator Fran Lebowitz talks about her upbringing in New jersey, about her early success, and about her writer's block - or, as she calls it - a "writer's blockade." She talks about this ongoing problem with Eleanor.
Date: 1996-03-17
Name(s): Stinson, Mary (Producer), Updike, John, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Writers & Company host Eleanor Wachtel speaks with one of America's most successful, most elegant, and most accomplished writers, John Updike. In a career that spans almost 40 years, Updike is an astute social observer and sympathetic chronicler of the "ordinary guy."
Date: 2009-11-01
Name(s): Rabinovitch, Sandra, Roth, Philip, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: This week, Eleanor Wachtel speaks with American writer, Philip Roth. From Goodbye, Columbus and Portnoy's Complaint to American Pastoral and The Plot Against America, Philip Roth is one of the country's greatest writers. Philip Roth's new novel The Humbling is published by Hamish Hamilton Canada.
Date: 2012-05-27
Name(s): Jhabvala, Ruth Prawer, 1927-2013, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Eleanor Wachtel speaks with the Booker Prize-winning novelist, short story writer, and Oscar-winning screenwriter, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala. From Heat and Dust to The Remains of the Day from Room With a View to The Golden Bowl, her collaboration with Merchant-Ivory Productions began in 1963.
Date: 2016-01-17
Name(s): Constantine, David, 1944-, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Eleanor speaks with British poet, author and translator David Constantine about his new novel, The Life-Writer, and his short story collection, 'In Another Country.' The title story was the inspiration for the Oscar-nominated film, 45 Years.
Date: 1996-11-10
Name(s): Dawkins, Richard, 1941-, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: This week, Eleanor Wachtel speaks with Oxford evolutionary biologist and zoologist Richard Dawkins. The author of The Selfish Gene and The Blind Watchmaker is Britain's answer to Carl Sagan and Stephen Jay Gould. From sexy spiders, to fertile figs, Dawkins makes science comprehensible and fascinating.
Date: 1995-05-21
Name(s): Rabinovitch, Sandra, Thubron, Colin, 1939-, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Eleanor Wachtel talks with one of England's greatest travel writers, Colin Thubron. Thubron goes to the Lost Heart of Asia in his latest book.
Date: 2005-05-01
Name(s): Fuentes, Carlos, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Live from the Blue Metropolis International Literary Festival in Montréal, host Eleanor Wachtel talks with the great Mexican writer Carlos Fuentes - a diplomat, professor and activist, his themes are time, memory and Mexico.
Date: 2012-05-06
Name(s): Stinson, Mary (Producer), Vásquez, Juan Gabriel, 1973-, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: This week on Writers & Company, Eleanor Wachtel talks with an innovative and complex novelist from Bogotá, Colombia, and Barcelona, Spain - Juan Gabriel Vásquez.
Date: 1999-09-19
Name(s): Rabinovitch, Sandra, Spark, Muriel, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Host Eleanor Wachtel travels to Oliveto, Italy to interview the British novelist Dame Muriel Spark. They talk about her work and her life as an expat writer in Italy. Dame Muriel reads from her novel The Gentle Jewesses.
Date: 2011-05-22
Name(s): Aswānī, ʻAlāʼ, 1957-, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: From Egypt, Alaa Al Aswany. The most popular novelist in the Arab world talks about revolution and Egypt's pro-democracy movement. Eleanor Wachtel spoke to him onstage, last month, at the Blue Metropolis International Literary Festival in Montréal, where he won this year's Blue Met Arab Literature Prize.
