Date: 2012-11-04
Name(s): Erdrich, Louise, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Native American writer Louise Erdrich is the author of fourteen novels, short stories, poetry, and children's books. Eleanor Wachtel spoke with her in front of a packed house, onstage at the Toronto Festival of Authors.
Date: 2017-06-11
Name(s): Foster, Charles, 1962-, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Eleanor speaks with English writer, professor, veterinarian and barrister, Charles Foster. His latest book, Being a Beast: Adventures Across the Species Divide, is a quest to see the world through the senses of five different animal species.
Date: 2008-02-17
Name(s): Sacks, Oliver, 1933-2015, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: This week on Writers & Company, Eleanor Wachtel speaks with beloved neurologist Oliver Sacks about the psychological and physiological effects of music and about his new book, Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain.
Date: 2007-11-18
Name(s): Jones, Lloyd, 1955-, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: This week on Writers & Company, Eleanor Wachtel talks with the New Zealand writer, Lloyd Jones. The winner of this year's Commonwealth Writers Prize, his novel Mister Pip is quirky and charming and - as you might imagine - based on Dickens' Great Expectations. They chat about the book and "remembered history," and New Zealand's star rugby team, The All-Blacks.
Date: 2007-03-11
Name(s): Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʼo, 1938-, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: This week on Writers and Company, host Eleanor Wachtel talks with Kenya's greatest novelist, Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʼo, about his ambitious, satirical, epic work, Wizard of the Crow.
Date: 2000-01-16
Name(s): McIlveen, Nancy, Shakespeare, Nicholas, 1957-, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Eleanor Wachtel talks with novelist and biographer Nicholas Shakespeare about the remarkable life of England's Bruce Chatwin - the man who revolutionised travel writing before dissolving in his own myth.
Date: 2022-11-06
Name(s): Drnaso, Nick, Swailes, Katy, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Nick Drnaso is the first -- and only -- graphic novelist to be nominated for a Booker Prize for his 2018 title, Sabrina, which was hailed as a "masterpiece." Now he's back with an ambitious, imaginative new work, Acting Class, in which ten characters, of various ages and occupations, sign up for an acting class at their local community centre. Nothing is quite what it seems, as a mysterious, controlling teacher leads them on an unsettling journey. *Note: The audio for this episode was recorded…
Date: 2006-10-01
Name(s): Hornby, Nick, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Eleanor Wachtel talks with the popular English novelist and essayist Nick Hornby this week on Writers & Company. The author of High Fidelity, About a Boy, How to Be Good and Fever Pitch talks about his latest novel, A Long Way Down.
Date: 2015-03-01
Name(s): Cochran, Cate, 1955-, Hornby, Nick, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Eleanor Wachtel speaks with British novelist Nick Hornby. His new novel posits an alternative reality in which Britain has its own Lucille Ball-type actress - their own Funny Girl.
Date: 2002-06-16
Name(s): Ricci, Nino, 1959-, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Canadian novelist Nino Ricci in an onstage conversation with Eleanor Wachtel, recorded at the Northrop Frye International Literary Festival in Moncton. In his new book, Testament, Ricci re-imagines "the greatest story ever told" - the life of Jesus.
Date: 2021-04-18
Name(s): Ishiguro, Kazuo, 1954-, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Nobel Prize-winning author Kazuo Ishiguro joins Eleanor Wachtel to discuss his bestselling new novel, Klara and the Sun. It's an imaginative exploration of love, artificial intelligence and what it means to be human.
Date: 1995-01-22
Name(s): Miłosz, Czesław, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Scanlan, Larry, 1948-, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Eleanor Wachtel talks with Polish poet and Nobel Prize winner (1980), Czesław Miłosz, about exile, ecstatic pessimism, and the poet's dilemma. Miłosz reads two of his poems - "Dedication" (1945), and "Meaning" from his collection Provinces: Poems 1987-1991 (1991).
Date: 2015-10-25
Name(s): Pamuk, Orhan, 1952-, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: This week, Eleanor speaks with Turkish Nobel Prize-winning writer Orhan Pamuk. His new novel, A Strangeness in My Mind, covers forty years in the life of the city and an Istanbul street vendor.
Date: 2006-05-07
Name(s): Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor, Walcott, Derek
Description: Eleanor Wachtel talks with the Nobel Prize-winning poet Derek Walcott this week on Writers & Company. From his Homeric evocation of the fishermen of his native St Lucia in Omeros, to The Prodigal - his newest journey through the landscapes of Europe and the New World - Walcott is one of the great poets.
Date: 2019-03-10
Name(s): Krug, Nora, Swailes, Katy, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: The German American graphic artist talks to Eleanor Wachtel about her visual memoir, Belonging, an unflinching investigation into her family's involvement in the Second World War.
