Date: 1994-03-06
Name(s): Scanlan, Larry, 1948-, Tremain, Rose, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Eleanor Wachtel talks with English author Rose Tremain, whose short stories and novels win prizes and readers because of her wide-ranging imagination. They discuss her newest novel, Sacred Country, and Tremain reads one of her short stories.
Date: 2011-11-20
Name(s): Barnes, Julian, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: This week on Writers and Company, Eleanor Wachtel interviews this year's Man Booker prize-winner, Julian Barnes, in a remarkably expansive and personal conversation. His new novel is called The Sense of an Ending.
Date: 2020-10-18
Name(s): Rabinovitch, Sandra, Trethewey, Natasha D., 1966-, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Today on Writers & Company, Eleanor talks with the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Natasha Trethewey. The two-time U.S. Poet Laureate has a haunting new memoir, Memorial Drive, which deals with race, her Southern childhood, and the trauma of her mother's murder. CONTENT WARNING: This episode contains frank discussion of some of the painful experiences in Natasha's account, including physical and psychological violence.
Date: 2014-02-09
Name(s): Sjón, 1962-, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: This week, from Iceland, novelist, poet, librettist and lyricist, Sjón. From surrealist poetry to stories drawing on Greek and Norse myths, to songs for Björk, he's become an international hit.
Date: 1998-04-26
Name(s): Oz, Amos, 1939-2018, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Today, on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the State of Israel, Eleanor Wachtel talks with one of its most important and outspoken Authors - Amos Oz. His latest novel revisits that significant moment in the country's history and his own.
Date: 2011-12-04
Name(s): Keret, Etgar, 1967-, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Etgar Keret is hailed as the voice of young Israel and one of its most radical and extraordinary writers. He's known internationally for his short stories, graphic novels, and scriptwriting for film and television. His film, Jellyfish, won the 2007 Palme D'or prize at Cannes. Eleanor Wachtel spoke with Etgar Keret, via video conference from Tel Aviv, at the Jewish Book Festival in Vancouver.
Date: 2018-04-01
Name(s): Hastings, Sascha, Ivory, James, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: At the age of 89, the writer and director just won his first Academy Award for his screenplay for the hit movie, Call Me by Your Name. While in Toronto for TIFF's Books on Film series, James Ivory spoke to Eleanor Wachtel about some of his most famous films, and why he's drawn to stories about first love... and Italy.
Date: 1997-12-07
Name(s): Stinson, Mary (Producer), Sutherland, John, 1938-, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: This week on Writers & Company - the "Shelock Holmes" of literary criticism, England's John Sutherland. Sutherland scrutinises the puzzles and discrepancies in classic novels.
Date: 2014-06-08
Name(s): Stinson, Mary (Producer), Urrea, Luis Alberto, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Today on Writers & Company, Eleanor talks with Mexican American poet, novelist, and essayist Luis Alberto Urrea, live onstage at the Blue Metropolis International Literary Festival. They talk about borders and the cross-cultural tensions they engender and life with his unique family.
Date: 2012-06-10
Name(s): Gladwell, Malcolm, 1963-, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: As part of the Toronto Public Library's Jamaica 50 celebrations, author and journalist Malcolm Gladwell discusses his work and his Jamaican heritage with Eleanor Wachtel. A staff writer for The New Yorker since 1996, Gladwell's four books: The Tipping Point, Blink, Outliers and What The Dog Saw, are all New York Times bestsellers.
Date: 2001-05-06
Name(s): Drabble, Margaret, 1939-, Holroyd, Michael, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Families and Memoir - or is it fiction? Part one of Eleanor Wachtel's conversation with the popular English novelist, Margaret Drabble, and her husband, the biographer Michael Holroyd. They talk about memoir, biography and putting their lives on the page.
Date: 2013-11-17
Name(s): Drabble, Margaret, 1939-, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Several years ago, author Margaret Drabble said she was finished with fiction. Thankfully, she changed her mind. She has a new novel called The Pure Gold Baby. Eleanor Wachtel spoke with her onstage at the International Festival of Authors.
Date: 2007-01-28
Name(s): Amis, Martin, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: This week on Writers and Company, host Eleanor Wachtel talks with the Bad Boy of Brit Lit - Martin Amis. His new novel, The House of Meetings, is being touted as his best ever. Set in the Russian Gulag, it's a love triangle with a twist.
Date: 2007-02-04
Name(s): Amis, Martin, Handler, Richard, 1950-, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: This week on Writers and Company, Part Two of Eleanor Wachtel's conversation with one of England's hottest and most controversial writers, Martin Amis. In this episode, Amis talks about the family: new daughters, a long-lost daughter, family tragedy, but especially his father, novelist and poet Kingsley Amis. Episode includes part of an interview that Eleanor did with Kingsley Amis in 1992, as well as a recording of Kingsley reading from his Collected Poems: 1944-1979.
Date: 2015-09-27
Name(s): Luiselli, Valeria, 1983-, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: From Mexico and New York - and many places in between - Eleanor speaks with the virtuoso young writer, Valeria Luiselli. Luiselli is an exciting new voice and original sensibility who the National Book Foundation named one of its "5 Under 35."
