Date: 2015-11-22
Name(s): Moody, Rick, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Eleanor speaks with American novelist Rick Moody — author of Garden State and The Ice Storm — about travel, religion, and his inventive new novel, Hotels of North America.
Date: 2021-06-20
Name(s): Galchen, Rivka, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Canadian-born American novelist Rivka Galchen talks to Eleanor Wachtel about her new novel, Everyone Knows Your Mother is a Witch, which reimagines the real-life witch trial of the mother of the renowned 17th-century mathematician and astronomer Johannes Kepler. *Note: The audio for this episode was recorded during the Covid-19 lockdown and contains occasional low-level equipment-related distortion.
Date: 2009-10-18
Name(s): Darnton, Robert, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Eleanor Wachtel speaks with prize-winning American historian of the book, Robert Darnton, about his latest work, The Case for Books: Past, Present and Future (2009, PublicAffairs).
Date: 2017-04-09
Name(s): Lepage, Robert, 1957-, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Eleanor speaks with Canadian theatre visionary, Robert Lepage. World-renowned for his highly innovative, multimedia productions, his latest work, 887, explores childhood memories in a divided Québec.
Date: 1999-09-26
Name(s): Doyle, Roddy, 1958-, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Dublin writer Roddy Doyle talks about politics and the fight for independence. His new novel, A Star Called Henry - described as a cross between Dickens, and Tarantino - is a re-visioning of the struggle for an Irish Republic and the events around the Easter Rising of 1916.
Date: 2000-03-05
Name(s): Knox, Bernard, 1914-2010, McDonald, Roger, 1941-, Pearson, Ian, Wachtel, Eleanor, Wake, Hal
Description: Eleanor Wachtel talks with Australian novelist Roger McDonald about Mr. Darwin's Shooter - a look at the man who shot specimens for the young Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species. Also, classicist Bernard Knox on Ovid's Metamophoses - a source of poetry, art, and opera through the centuries.
Date: 2010-05-30
Name(s): Rabinovitch, Sandra, Tremain, Rose, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Eleanor Wachtel speaks with English writer, Rose Tremain. Her last book, The Road Home won Britain's Orange Prize. Her latest is a mystery set in the south of France. The Road Home and Trespass are published by Random House.
Date: 1998-09-20
Name(s): Foster, R. F. (Robert Fitzroy), 1949-, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: A look at the great visionary poet, the Novel Prize winner, William Butler Yeats. Eleanor Wachtel speaks with Irish historian Roy Foster about the first volume of his new biography, W. B. Yeats, A Life, Vol. I. The Apprentice Mage.
Date: 2013-09-29
Name(s): Stinson, Mary (Producer), Thomson, Rupert, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: English novelist Rupert Thomson is one of those writers who, for some reason, is not as well-known as he should be... So, we're doing our bit to remedy the situation. Eleanor speaks with him about his memoir and about his new novel, Secrecy.
Date: 1999-01-10
Name(s): Aleshkovskiĭ, P. (Petr), Gessen, Masha, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: RUSSIA IN CRISIS, part 1 of a series on writing since Perestroika and after the crash. To start, the rise of spirituality and the fall of the Intellegentsia. Host Eleanor Wachtel interviews Russian writers Petr Aleshkovskiĭ and Masha Gessen in Moscow.
Date: 1999-01-17
Name(s): Bitov, Andreĭ, Miller, Larisa, 1940-, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: RUSSIA IN CRISIS, part 2 of a series on writing since Perestroika and after the crash. Host Eleanor Wachtel interviews poet and essayist Larisa Miller, who recalls her Soviet childhood and the heroism of the dissident movement. Also, from backstage at the Bolshoi Theatre, Eleanor talks with Andreĭ Bitov. He's a survivor of the siege of Leningrad and continues the St. Petersburg tradition.
Date: 1999-01-24
Name(s): Ivanov, Aleksandr, 1936-1996, Novikov, Mikhail, Prokhorova, Irina, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: RUSSIA IN CRISIS, part 3 of a series on writing since Perestroika and after the crash. In this episode Eleanor Wachtel moderates a discussion between three cultural observers and participants in Moscow. Guests are: Russian literary critics Irina Prokhorova, Alexander Ivanov and Mikhail Novikov.
Date: 1999-01-31
Name(s): Erofeev, V. V. (Viktor V.), Latynina, I︠U︡lii︠a︡, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: RUSSIA IN CRISIS, part 4 of a series on writing since Perestroika and after the crash. Host Eleanor Wachtel interviews novelist and critic Viktor Erofeyev, one of the most controversial figures in new Russian writing. Also, Julia Latynina - an economic journalist who writes crime fiction and fantasy.
Date: 1999-02-07
Name(s): Carnovsky, Morris, Feinstein, Elaine, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor, Yevtushenko, Yevgeny Aleksandrovich, 1933-2017
Description: RUSSIA IN CRISIS, part 5: On the 200th anniversery of the birth of the great Russian poet Aleksandr Pushkin, Eleanor Wachtel talks to British Pushkin biographer Elaine Feinstein.
Date: 2002-09-15
Name(s): Rushdie, Salman, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Eleanor Wachtel interviews Salman Rushdie. The novelist and essayist who has put his opinions - and even his life - on the line, has a new collection of essays called Step Across This Line: Collected Nonfiction 1992-2002.
