Date: 1996-09-29
Name(s): Gordon, Mary, 1949-, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Today, the first episode of a new series on Memoir, starting with American fiction writer Mary Gordon. Gordon is famous for her novels about modern women in a Catholic environment. Now she has a more disturbing story called The Shadow Man: A Daughter's Search For Her Father, about her mercurial - and ultimately, unfathomable - father.
Date: 1996-10-06
Name(s): Kermode, Frank, 1919-2010, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Series on Memoir, episode 2. In this episode, Eleanor talks with one of England's great literary critics, Sir Frank Kermode. An expert on the Bible, Shakespeare, and the classics, he talks about his memoir Not Entitled and about growing up on the Isle of Man in the 1920s and '30s.
Date: 1996-10-13
Name(s): Karr, Mary, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Trillin, Calvin, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Series on Memoir, episode 3. To wrap up the series on memoir, Eleanor Wachtel speaks with two American writers: Humourist Calvin Trillin reflects with affection and wit in Messages From My Father, and poet Mary Karr talks about growing up in a troubled Texas family in The Liars Club.
Date: 1990-12-16
Name(s): Carter, Angela, 1940-1992, Plimpton, George, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: INTERVIEW: Angela Carter discusses her anthology, The Virago Book of Fairy Tales (1990, Virago Press). READING: Carter reads the Perrault version of "Little Red Riding Hood." INTERVIEW: George Plimpton discusses his editorship of the Paris Review.
Date: 2001-10-28
Name(s): Rabinovitch, Sandra, Tharoor, Shashi, 1956-, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: From India and New York - a conversation with Shashi Tharoor. The author of India from Midnight to the Millennium has a new book called Riot, which examines cultural collision between east and west, between Hindu and Muslim.
Date: 2009-10-11
Name(s): Alexie, Sherman, 1966-, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: This week, Eleanor Wachtel speaks with native American writer, Sherman Alexie. Funny, perceptive and fearless, Sherman Alexie has two new books - a collection of poetry called Face (2009, Hanging Loose Press) and stories, called War Dances (2009, Publishers Group Canada).
Date: 2017-06-18
Name(s): Alexie, Sherman, 1966-, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Eleanor speaks with Native American writer Sherman Alexie about his memoir, You Don't Have to Say You Love Me. The book focuses on his complicated relationship with his mother, and his difficult upbringing on a Spokane reservation in Washington state.
Date: 2003-11-16
Name(s): Hazzard, Shirley, 1931-2016, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Shirley Hazzard, the author of Transit of Venus and Greene on Capri has a new novel - her first in more than 20 years. It's called The Great Fire, and it's a remarkable look at the post-war world of the mid-20th century.
Date: 2004-01-25
Name(s): Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor, Winchester, Simon
Description: Eleanor Wachtel talks with popular writer Simon Winchester. Famous for The Professor and the Madman and Krakatoa, he now tells the story of the compilation of the Oxford English Dictionary. His new book, The Meaning of Everything: The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary, is published by Oxford University Press.
Date: 1991-02-03
Name(s): Rabinovitch, Sandra, Richler, Mordecai, 1931-2001, Wachtel, Eleanor, Weldon, Fay
Description: INTERVIEW: Social satirist Mordecai Richler discusses his essay collection, Broadsides: Reviews and Opinions (1990, Viking). INTERVIEW: Fay Weldon discusses her fiction. READING: Weldon reads from her novel, Darcy's Utopia (1990, HarperCollins ) at Harbourfront.
Date: 2015-09-20
Name(s): Oksanen, Sofi, 1977-, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: This week on Writers & Company, multi-award-winning Finnish-Estonian novelist and playwright, Sofi Oksanen. Her novels about the double occupation of Estonia – Nazi and Soviet — are international bestsellers.
Date: 1998-11-29
Name(s): Farah, Nuruddin, 1945-, Wachtel, Eleanor, Wake, Hal
Description: Eleanor Wachtel interviews Somali author Nuruddin Farah about his work and life, and having to leave Somalia. Farah recently won the 1998 Neustadt International Prize for Literature, considered the most prestigious award after the Nobel.
Date: 2012-02-19
Name(s): Ameena Hussein, Ferrey, Ashok, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Vanderpoorten, Vivimarie, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: This week, part one of a special 5-part series: South Asian Conversations, starting with a Panel discussions recorded in Colombo. Three Sri Lankan writers of mixed background, Sinhalese, Muslim and Burgher, explore the complex realities of life in the island nation as it recovers from the trauma of civil war and a devastating tsunami. Guests include Ashok Ferry, Ameena Hussein, and Vivimarie Vanderpoorten.
Date: 2012-02-26
Name(s): Chand, Meira, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: This week, our special 5-part series South Asian Conversations continues with novelist Meira Chand. Born of Swiss-Indian parentage in London, she mines her own confused identity in fiction that explores the "cracks between cultures." After thirty years living in Japan, she is now based in Singapore, the inspiration for her latest novel, A Different Sky, a dramatic story set during colonial times in the multicultural city-state.
Date: 2012-03-04
Name(s): Sahgal, Nayantara, 1927-, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Coming up on Writers and Company, part three of Eleanor Wachtel's South Asian Conversations. Nayantara Sahgal comes from a political family: her uncle was India's first prime minister her mother was the country's first ambassador to the U.N. Indira Gandhi was her first cousin. Her whole family was involved in the struggle for Indian Independence: both her parents and her uncle were often jailed during her childhood, a period she recalled in her first memoir, Prison and Chocolate Cake. She has…
