Date: 2014-03-02
Name(s): Alameddine, Rabih, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Lebanese American writer Ramih Alameddine's new book, An Unnecessary Woman, is about a reclusive woman living in Beirut. The thirty-seven books she has translated into Arabic have been stowed away, and never read - by anyone.
Date: 2018-05-27
Name(s): Kushner, Rachel, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: One of the most dynamic American novelists writing today, Rachel Kushner has a new novel, The Mars Room, which centres on a former stripper and single mother serving two life sentences in a California prison.
Date: 2012-01-08
Name(s): Dasgupta, Rana, 1971-, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: This week on Writers and Company, from Delhi and Oxford, Rana Dasgupta. His latest novel, Solo, spans a century of Bulgarian history. Salman Rushdie describes Rana Dasgupta as "the most unexpected and original Indian writer of his generation," and Solo as "a work of exceptional, astonishing strangeness." In his conversation with Eleanor Wachtel, Dasgupta talks about still feeling part of his father's family in India, even though he grew up in England in the 70s and 80s.
Date: 2015-04-12
Name(s): Bazdulj, Muharem, 1977-, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: This week, part one of our special series, "Re-imagining the Balkans: How the countries of the former Yugoslavia face their past and their future," with Bosnian novelist and journalist Muharem Bazdulj.
Date: 2015-04-19
Name(s): Pavićević, Borka, 1947-, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Ugrešić, Dubravka, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: This week on Writers and Company, Eleanor Wachtel is featuring a series called "Re-imagining the Balkans: How the countries of the former Yugoslavia face their past and their future." Today she'll speak with Croatian novelist and essayist Dubravka Ugrešić, and Serbian cultural activist Borka Pavićević.
Date: 2015-04-26
Name(s): Debeljak, Aleš, 1961-2016, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: More in our special series, "Re-imagining the Balkans: How the countries of the former Yugoslavia face their past and their future," this week with Slovenian poet and cultural critic, Aleš Debeljak. " I cherish and relish and celebrate the multi-layered existence that is myself. That self would not have been what it is without the Yugoslav experience." - Aleš Debeljak
Date: 2015-05-03
Name(s): Albahari, David, 1948-2023, Petlevski, Sibila, 1964-, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: This week on Writers & Company - "Re-imagining the Balkans." This special series explores the enormously interesting and often misunderstood Balkan region through conversations with writers from the area. This week Eleanor Wachtel speaks with Croatian novelist and poet, Sibila Petlevski, and from Belgrade, writer David Albahari.
Date: 2015-05-10
Name(s): Begić, Aida, 1976-, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Our special series, "Re-imagining the Balkans: How the countries of the former Yugoslavia face their past and their future," concludes with Bosnian filmmaker, Aida Begić. "Today in Bosnia it's very hard to make movies. But I know the importance of that from the war years. We didn't have water, we didn't have food, we didn't have electricity. But we did have the need for art....it makes us human." - Aida Begić
Date: 1997-05-18
Name(s): Deane, Seamus, 1940-2021, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Readings and interview with Irish writer Seamus Deane. His extraordinary new novel is in the form of a memoir. It's a classic growing-up Irish story that's political, poetical, and humorous. It's called Reading in the Dark.
Date: 1997-10-05
Name(s): Atkinson, Kate, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: An interview with English author Kate Atkinson, whose new book Human Croquet draws on the same fierce energy and idiosyncratic wit as her award-winning first novel, Behind the Scenes at the Museum. This episode includes two readings.
Date: 2010-06-06
Name(s): Goldstein, Rebecca, 1950-, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: This week, 36 Arguments for the Existence of God - a new novel by philosopher Rebecca Goldstein, author of The Mind-Body Problem and Betraying Spinoza. 36 Arguments for the Existence of God is published by Random House. Betraying Spinoza is available in paperback from Schocken Books.
Date: 2002-11-24
Name(s): Holdridge, Barbara C., Mantell, Marianne, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Host Eleanor Wachtel talks with Caedmon Records co-founders Barbara Holdridge and Marianne Mantell. For fifty years, the label has chronicled our literary history. Their first great success was Dylan Thomas reading A Child's Christmas in Wales. Since then, they've recorded such literary giants as William Faulkner, Tennessee Williams, Eudora Welty, and E.E. Cummings.
Date: 1998-05-10
Name(s): Bruce, Alison, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Sahgal, Nayantara, 1927-, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Reinventing India: Writing Since Independence - a new series that explores the sub-continent through its novelists, poets, and critics. Episode 1: Eleanor Wachtel interviews author Nayatara Sahgal on her work about her family - the Nehrus and the Gandhis - and their political dynasty.
Date: 1998-05-17
Name(s): Rabinovitch, Sandra, Trivedi, Harish, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Reinventing India: Writing Since Independence - a series that explores the sub-continent through its novelists, poets, and critics. Series episode 2 - "Colonial Transactions." Eleanor Wachtel talks to Indian literary scholar and critic Harish Trivedi about the relationship between English literature and India - from Shakespeare to T.S. Eliot, and from Nobel Prize winner Rabindranath Tagore to Arundhati Roy.
Date: 1998-05-24
Name(s): Gangopadhyay, Sunil, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Reinventing India: Writing Since Independence - a series that explores the sub-continent through its novelists, poets, and critics. Series episode 3: An interview with Bengali novelist and poet Sunil Gangopadhyay - a Partition refugee who's become one of India's most popular and influential writers.
