Date: 1991-06-23
Name(s): Helprin, Mark, Lesser, Wendy, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Part I: U.S. author Mark Helprin discusses his life and fiction and reads from his new novel, A Soldier of the Great War; Part II: Berkeley critic and essayist Wendy Lesser discusses her study of art and gender in her book His Other Half.
Date: 2020-05-31
Name(s): Ackmann, Martha, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Martha Ackmann, the author of These Fevered Days, explores how Dickinson wrote impassioned poetry from a life of solitude and seclusion.
Date: 1996-12-08
Name(s): Gallant, Mavis, Nussbaum, Martha C. (Martha Craven), 1947-, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Part I: Eleanor Wachtel interviews American author Martha Nussbaum - a classical scholar and moral philosopher - about her new book Poetic Justice. Part II: A special treat - Mavis Gallant reads a story from her newest collection called "When We Were Nearly Young" before a live audience.
Date: 2019-12-15
Name(s): Amis, Martin, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Thomson, Ian, 1961-, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: To mark the centenary of the birth of Primo Levi - the Italian-Jewish chemist, Holocaust survivor, and writer - Eleanor Wachtel talks to his biographer, Ian Thomson, and to novelist and essayist Martin Amis.
Date: 1995-09-10
Name(s): Amis, Martin, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Eleanor interviews an author described as the cleverest, most entertaining - and most notorious - English writer of his age, Martin Amis. Amis reads from his books The Information and Visiting Mrs. Nabokov, and Other Excursions
Date: 2020-11-01
Name(s): Amis, Martin, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: The provocative British writer talks to Eleanor Wachtel about his new book, Inside Story, which reflects on the significant men in his life, including his father Kingsley, his mentor Saul Bellow, and his closest friend, writer and critic Christopher Hitchens.
Date: 2018-03-18
Name(s): Gaitskill, Mary, 1954-, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Eleanor Wachtel speaks to literature's "bad girl," American writer Mary Gaitskill. In a book of essays, Gaitskill explores her unexpected bond with three inner-city children, her complicated relationship with her dying father, and the profound grief she experienced when her beloved kitten went missing.
Date: 2020-03-29
Name(s): Gessen, Masha, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Russian American author and journalist Masha Gessen talks to Eleanor Wachtel about politics, sexual identity and receiving an apology from Vladimir Putin.
Date: 2019-10-27
Name(s): Rabinovitch, Sandra, Rey Rosa, Rodrigo, 1958-, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Celebrated writer Rodrigo Rey Rosa talks to Eleanor Wachtel about growing up during Guatemala's civil war, the inspiration he found in Tangier and his new book, Chaos: A Fable.
Date: 2014-10-12
Name(s): Amis, Martin, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: British novelist Martin Amis has been extremely controversial in his lifetime and has been described as a master of "the new unpleasantness." His most recent novel, The Zone of Interest, revisits the Holocaust from a different angle.
Date: 2020-11-29
Name(s): Beaumont, Matthew, 1972-, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Writer and critic Matthew Beaumont speaks with Eleanor Wachtel about tracing the footsteps of literary Authors - from Charles Dickens to Virginia Woolf - in his new book, The Walker: On Finding and Losing Yourself in the Modern City.
Date: 2008-01-13
Name(s): Gallant, Mavis, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: This week on Writers and Company, from Paris, host Eleanor Wachtel in conversation with the great Canadian short story writer, Mavis Gallant. She'll talk with Eleanor about her novel From the Fifteenth District, a finalist for the 2008 Canada Reads competition.
Date: 2023-05-07
Name(s): Porter, Max, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Swailes, Katy, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Best-selling British novelist Max Porter - author of the powerful and poetic Grief is the Thing With Feathers - talks with Eleanor Wachtel about his new book, Shy: a Novel, and his original imaginings of the natural world.
Date: 2002-11-03
Name(s): Kingston, Maxine Hong, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Host Eleanor Wachtel talks with Maxine Hong Kingston. More than 25 years ago her book The Woman Warrior changed the face of fiction in America. Then came China Men and Tripmaster Monkey. Now you have a chance to meet a remarkable woman in her new book, To be the Poet.
Date: 2005-05-15
Name(s): Konrád, György, 1933-2019, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Memory and Myth: The Rebirth of Central Europe - Writers and Company kicks off a five-part series on the contemporary writers of Central Europe this week. To begin, Hungary's leading writer, György Konrád, discusses his childhood experiences during the Holocaust, the Communist years that followed, and the changes in Hungary since the collapse of the Soviet empire.
