Date: 2015-12-13
Name(s): Barker, Pat, 1943-, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Eleanor speaks with English novelist Pat Barker. The author of the Regeneration Trilogy has completed a new series about a group of London artists struggling through two world wars. Her latest novel, Noonday, is set during the London Blitz.
Date: 2003-04-27
Name(s): Duncker, Patricia, 1951-, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Host Eleanor Wachtel talks with the English novelist, Patricia Duncker. Duncker is a professor of English and feminist theory at the University of East Anglia. She was born in Jamaica and has worked in both France and Germany. The author of the intriguing and compelling novel Hallucinating Foucault has a new book, The Deadly Space Between, that's a mix of Faust, Freud and Frankenstein. Patricia Duncker spoke with Eleanor Wachtel onstage at the Blue Metropolis Festival in Montreal.
Date: 2018-12-30
Name(s): Howell, Tom, Smith, Patti, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: The iconic American musician, writer and photographer talked to Eleanor Wachtel onstage in 2013 to celebrate the launch of her photo exhibit, Camera Solo. (This is a repeat from an Wachtel On The Arts (2013) episode)
Date: 2016-02-28
Name(s): Beatty, Paul, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: From New York City, American novelist and poet Paul Beatty speaks with Eleanor Wachtel about his latest book, The Sellout. It was described by The New York Times as last year's most cheerfully outrageous satire, while The Guardian calls Beatty "the funniest writer in America."
Date: 1996-10-20
Name(s): Stinson, Mary (Producer), Theroux, Paul, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Today, the author that started the modern boom in travel writing, American Paul Theroux. Now he travels through his own life in his new, imaginary memoir called My Other Life.
Date: 2009-11-29
Name(s): Rabinovitch, Sandra, Theroux, Paul, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Eleanor Wachtel in conversation with the renowed travel writer and chronicler of the expatriate experience, Paul Theroux. Thirty years after The Great Railway Bazaar he re-traces his journey to the Eastern Star. He has a new novel set in India, called A Dead Hand: A Crime in Calcutta.
Date: 1999-09-05
Name(s): Angier, Carole, 1943-, Melville, Pauline, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Part I: Host Eleanor Wachtel interviews English-Guyanese author Pauline Melville. Her writing spans continents and centuries, politics and magic, from Shape-shifter to her prize-winning novel The Ventriloquist's Tale. Part II: British biographer Carole Angier on the novelist Jean Rhys, who "wrote like an angle but lived like a monster."
Date: 1997-04-27
Name(s): Lively, Penelope, 1933-, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Eleanor talks with the self-ascribed, "quintessentially English" writer, Penelope Lively. The author of a dozen novels - including the Booker Award-winning Moon Tiger - talks about love, romance, the arcadian dream, and growing up in Egypt.
Date: 2022-02-27
Name(s): Everett, Percival, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Swailes, Katy, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: From Pasadena, California, the provocative American writer Percival Everett. In 1955, the murder of 14-year-old Emmett Till in Money, Mississippi brought nationwide attention to racial violence and injustice. The perpetrators were never punished. But in Percival Everett's powerful new novel, The Trees, that history comes back to haunt Money's white townsfolk, in a wave of retribution for the brutal legacy of lynching in the American South. *Note: The audio for this episode was recorded during…
Date: 1995-03-12
Name(s): Scanlan, Larry, 1948-, Vargas Llosa, Mario, 1936-, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Eleanor Wachtel travels to London, England to converse with one of the greatest Latin-American writers of our time, Mario Vargas Llosa. The author, essayist, and playwright has written 10 novels. Llosa's most recent work, a memoir called A Fish in the Water, talks about his troubled childhood, why he ran for the presidency of Peru, and how the military in that country once burned 1,000 of his books.
Date: 1990-12-23
Name(s): Ackroyd, Peter, 1949-, Fenwick, Gillie, Gordon, Barbara, Hughson, Randy, Knight, Keith, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Schoemperlen, Diane, Stocker, John, Wachtel, Eleanor, White, Ron, Zann, Lenore
Description: READING: Gillie Fenwick reads a scene from Dickens' The Pickwick Papers (Serialized Mar. 1836-Nov. 1837, Book pub. 1837). INTERVIEW: Peter Ackroyd discusses his biography of Charles Dickens (Dickens,1990, McClelland & Stewart). READING: Gillie Fenwick reads another scene from The Pickwick Papers. LIT FEATURE: Diane Schoemperlen's story "Lonely Blue Dreams," performed by Barbara Gordon, Lenore Zann, John Stocker, Ron White, Keith Knight, and Randy Hughson, and featuring the music of Roy…
Date: 2015-01-18
Name(s): Carey, Peter, 1943-, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Eleanor Wachtel speaks with the Australian-American novelist Peter Carey. The two-time Booker Prize-winner's new novel, Amnesia, probes the relationship between his two countries.
Date: 2010-05-09
Name(s): Carey, Peter, 1943-, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: "Democracy in America" - Australia's Peter Carey re-imagines Alexis de Tocqueville's 19th century journey to the new world and the state of the union 140 years later during the Vietnam War.
Date: 2001-04-22
Name(s): Carey, Peter, 1943-, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Eleanor Wachtel in conversation with one of Australia's top novelists, Peter Carey. The award-winning author of Jack Maggs has a new book about the 19th century outlaw Ned Kelly - a kind of Australian Billy the Kid. The book is called True History of the Kelly Gang.
Date: 2010-03-07
Name(s): Hensher, Philip, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: This week, from England, novelist, columnist and critic, Philip Hensher. His latest book, The Northern Clemency is an astute and witty take on England's social transformation during the Thatcher era. The Northern Clemency is published by Knopf.
