Date: 2022-05-29
Name(s): Rabinovitch, Sandra, Swailes, Katy, Trier, Joachim, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Joachim Trier has been hailed as one of the most interesting and dynamic new voices in European cinema. His film The Worst Person in the World is the latest in his loosely described "Oslo trilogy"–compelling character studies set in the changing landscape of his hometown. Trier has described the movie as "a coming-of-age film for grown-ups who feel like they still haven't grown up." It's been nominated for numerous prizes including the Oscar for Best International Feature Film and Best Original…
Date: 2010-09-26
Name(s): Petterson, Per, 1952-, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: This week on Writers & Company, a conversation with the award-winning Norwegian novelist, Per Petterson. The author of Out Stealing Horses has a new book called I Curse the River of Time. Petterson's parents were both working class, but managed to save enough to send him to college. However, after a couple of years there he threw it over to work in a factory, just as his parents had, because of his left-wing political beliefs.
Date: 2023-02-12
Name(s): Burnet, Graeme Macrae, 1967-, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Graeme Macrae Burnet's novels are something different: not-so-true crime stories that blur the line between documentary and fiction. The Scottish writer's 2015 book, His Bloody Project: documents relating to the case of Roderick Macrae : a novel – set in the Highlands during the 19th century – was shortlisted for the Booker Prize, while his most recent title, Case Study, has been called "a page-turning blast, funny, sinister and perfectly plotted." It takes place in 1960s London and follows a…
Date: 2017-11-19
Name(s): Rabinovitch, Sandra, Roy, Anuradha, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Anuradha Roy's elegant, provocative fiction looks at life in India from unusual angles. Eleanor spoke to Roy about her latest book, Sleeping on Jupiter, which won the DSC South Asia Prize for Fiction.
Date: 2021-12-12
Name(s): Mann, Thomas, 1875-1955, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Tóibín, Colm, 1955-, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: An interview with Irish novelist, essayist and biographer Colm Tóibín. The author of Brooklyn, Nora Webster and The Master has a new novel inspired by the life of German writer Thomas Mann. Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1929, Mann was enormously influential in the first half of the 20th century: from his classic novels Buddenbrooks, Death in Venice and The Magic Mountain, to his impact as an outspoken exile during the Second World War. In The Magician, Tóibín evokes not only the…
Date: 1998-11-01
Name(s): Rabinovitch, Sandra, Salter, James, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Eleanor Wachtel interviews American novelist and short story writer James Salter. Salter, known for his precise and elegant style, wrote a classic erotic novel of the early '60s - A Sport and a Pastime. Now he has a "recollection" called Burning the Days.
Date: 1995-12-03
Name(s): Karl, Frederick R. (Frederick Robert), 1927-2004, McIlveen, Nancy, Rogers, Jane, 1952-, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Part I: English writer Jane Rogers talks about her unusual novels, from the colonization of 18th-century Australia to Evangelical Utopians in 19th-century England. Part II: American biographer Frederick Karl has a new live of George Eliot.
Date: 1995-11-12
Name(s): Ford, Richard, 1944-, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: This week, Eleanor talks with American writer Richard Ford, who writes with compassion and dazzling accuracy about the ordinary guy and his relationships in middle America. Now Ford has followed up his earlier success with The Sportswriter with a new novel, called Independence Day.
Date: 2003-09-14
Name(s): O'Faolain, Nuala, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Host Eleanor Wachtel talks with Irish writer Nuala O'Faolain. The wonderfully funny and moving memoirist is the author of Are You Somebody?: The Accidental Memoir of a Dublin Woman and Almost There: The Onward Journey of a Dublin Woman.
Date: 2003-02-02
Name(s): Baker, Nicholson, Pearson, Ian, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Host Eleanor Wachtel talks with an American original, Nicholson Baker. He's known for his observations of the minutiae of life and for his fierce advocacy of library card catalogues and newspaper storage. As one critic put it, Nicholson Baker "doesn't just count the angels on the head of a pin, he does long division with the feathers in their wing tips." Baker's latest book is called A Box of Matches.
Date: 2022-04-10
Name(s): Rabinovitch, Sandra, Swailes, Katy, Vuong, Ocean, 1988-, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: In this Canadian exclusive interview, Vietnamese-American poet and novelist Ocean Vuong talks to Eleanor Wachtel about his highly anticipated new collection, a meditation on love, grief, and finding a way forward after the death of his mother. *Note: The audio for this episode was recorded during the Covid-19 lockdown and contains occasional low-level equipment-related distortion.
Date: 1992-04-12
Name(s): Amis, Kingsley, Handler, Richard, 1950-, Kelly, Greg, Wachtel, Eleanor, Weldon, Fay
Description: Today, more from London: Eleanor talks with two of England's most popular, prolific, and satirical novelists - Fay Weldon and Kingsley Amis.
Date: 2016-05-29
Name(s): Smith, Tracy K., Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Eleanor speaks with the Pulitzer Prize-winning American poet Tracy K. Smith about her memoir, Ordinary Light - named one of the best books of the year by The New York Times. Tracy K. talks to Eleanor about race, faith, and the elegiac power of poetry.
Date: 2019-01-20
Name(s): Ondjaki, 1977-, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Angolan writer Ondjaki, one of Africa's most important contemporary writers, talks to Eleanor Wachtel about his latest award-winning book - Transparent City - a portrait of his native Luanda in apocalyptic times.
Date: 2005-11-27
Name(s): Didion, Joan, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: This week on Writers and Company, host Eleanor Wachtel talks with one of America's most brilliant writers, Joan Didion, a journalist, novelist and essayist whose career spans more than forty years. Her latest book is a heart-breaking memoir called The Year of Magical Thinking, and it has just won the National Book Award for Non-Fiction.
