Date: 2005-05-22
Name(s): Hartwig, Julia, Klíma, Ivan, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: More in the special series Memory and Myth: The Rebirth of Central Europe this week on Writers and Company. Host Eleanor Wachtel talks with Julia Hartwig, one of Poland's most highly respected poets. During the Second World War, she was a member of the underground Home Army and a student of the underground university in Warsaw. Also, Ivan Klíma, the foremost Czech novelist and essayist of his generation. Interned as a child at the Terezin concentration camp, he became one of his country's most…
Date: 2005-05-29
Name(s): Kriseová, Eda, 1940-, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: More in the special series Memory and Myth: The Rebirth of Central Europe continues this week on Writers and Company. Host Eleanor Wachtel talks with Eda Kriseová, a Czech journalist and dissident whose work was banned for many years. She served as Speaker for Václav Havel during the Velvet Revolution, later worked as advisor in his office, and became his official biographer.
Date: 2005-06-05
Name(s): Kapuściński, Ryszard, Nádasdy, Ádám, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: More in the special series Memory and Myth: The Rebirth of Central Europe this week on Writers and Company. Host Eleanor Wachtel talks with Ryszard Kapuściński, the preeminent Polish journalist and essayist, for many years the Polish Press Agency's only foreign correspondent, reporting on wars, coups and revolutions in America, Asia and Africa. And Ádám Nádasdy, poet and professor of linguistics, translator and columnist. An acute observer, his memories of childhood in Hungary in the early…
Date: 2005-06-12
Name(s): Garaczi, László, 1956-, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Topol, Jáchym, 1962-, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: More in the special series Memory and Myth: The Rebirth of Central Europe. This week on Writers and Company, host Eleanor Wachtel talks with Jáchym Topol, one of the most original, hippest writers in the Czech Republic, a prize-winning novelist, rock lyricist, poet and journalist. From a famous literary dissident family, he was an activist himself. Also, László Garaczi, an award-winning novelist and dramatist whose provocative autobiographical fiction reflects his Communist upbringing during…
Date: 1994-05-01
Name(s): Fuentes, Carlos, Scanlan, Larry, 1948-, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Described as Mexico's most gifted storyteller, Carlos Fuentes is also a diplomat, professor, activist and connoisseur. Fuentes talks with Eleanor Wachtel about writing, politics, and his new book of stories, The Orange Tree.
Date: 2013-06-02
Name(s): Couto, Mia, 1955-, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Mia Couto was born in Mozambique, where his Portuguese parents had settled. He's just won this year's 100,000 Euro Camões Prize for Literature - dubbed the Portuguese Nobel. His latest book in English is called The Tuner of Silences.
Date: 2021-10-24
Name(s): Hansen-Løve, Mia, 1981-, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: French writer and director Mia Hansen-Løve talks to Eleanor Wachtel about her latest work, which centres on a couple, both filmmakers, who retreat to Faro island in the Baltic Sea to find inspiration in the place where the legendary Swedish director Ingmar Bergman shot his most celebrated films. *Note: The audio for this episode was recorded during the Covid-19 lockdown and contains occasional low-level equipment-related distortion.
Date: 2012-09-16
Name(s): Chabon, Michael, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: This week, a great American storyteller, Michael Chabon. He's one of those wunderkind Authors whose Master's thesis in Creative Writing turned into a big advance and a published novel while he was still in his early 20s. From Wonder Boys and The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay to The Yiddish Policeman's Union and now, Telegraph Avenue.
Date: 2007-09-09
Name(s): Chabon, Michael, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: This week on Writers and Company, host Eleanor Wachtel talks with Michael Chabon. From Wonder Boys and The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay to his latest, The Yiddish Policeman's Union, he's a great American storyteller.
Date: 2012-09-09
Name(s): Frayn, Michael, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Our first show of the new season: English author Michael Frayn is perhaps best known as the playwright of the wonderful farce, Noises Off. Now he has a new farce - Skios. He also has a new touching memoir of his father, My Father's Fortune.
Date: 2012-01-22
Name(s): Holroyd, Michael, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Today on Writers and Company - Eleanor Wachtel interviews English biographer Michael Holroyd. He's written a treasure trove of hidden lives, uncelebrated achievements, and family mysteries - his own and others - in A Book of Secrets.
Date: 2009-06-07
Name(s): Ignatieff, Michael, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: This week on Writers & Company, host Eleanor Wachtel speaks with Canadian novelist, essayist, biographer and politician, Michael Ignatieff. They discuss his latest, True Patriot Love - a book about his family and how it's influenced him throughout his career.
Date: 2010-12-12
Name(s): Ondaatje, Michael, 1943-, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Eleanor Wachtel has talked to Michael Ondaatje many times over the past twenty years from The English Patient to Divisadero, from poetry, to screenwriting. Now he turns the tables and interviews her, at a standing-room-only event recorded at the Appel Salon of the Toronto Reference Library. Eleanor Wachtel, "This Is Your Life!"
Date: 2000-05-14
Name(s): Ondaatje, Michael, 1943-, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Michael Ondaatje talks about his new novel, Anil's Ghost. Set during the civil war in Sri Lanka, it's an evocation of fear, violence, and grace.
Date: 2011-11-06
Name(s): Ondaatje, Michael, 1943-, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Host Eleanor Wachtel has spoken with Michael Ondaatje many times on Writers & Company over the years, most recently when Ondaatje turned the tables and interviewed HER at an event for the Writers & Company 20th Anniversary celebrations. She now speaks to him, onstage at the International Festival of Authors, about his latest book, The Cat's Table.
