Date: 2012-03-11
Name(s): Cāntan̲, 1947-, Patmanātan̲, Cō., Rabinovitch, Sandra, Rajakarunanayake, Thiranjani Sunethra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Today on Writers and Company: The fourth program in the special series on South Asia again focuses on Sri Lanka, as Eleanor Wachtel explores the complex realities of life in the island nation. In Colombo, a leading Sinhalese novelist discusses the influence of Buddhist thought in her work, while in the northern city of Jaffna, two Tamil writers share their perspective on the conflict that has divided their country.
Date: 2012-03-18
Name(s): Rabinovitch, Sandra, Tharoor, Shashi, 1956-, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: The conclusion of our series, South Asian Conversations with the Indian writer and politician Shashi Tharoor. His latest book is The Elephant, the Tiger and the Cell Phone: Reflections on India in the 21st Century.
Date: 1998-10-25
Name(s): Guadagni, Nicky, Spencer, Elizabeth, 1921-2019, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: From the American South - writer Elizabeth Spencer. The author of The Light in the Piazza and The Salt Line has written a memoir about her life in Mississippi, Italy, and Montreal, called Landscapes of the Heart.
Date: 2017-10-15
Name(s): Marías, Javier, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Spain's most celebrated contemporary writer, Javier Marías, talks to Eleanor Wachtel about his country's dark past, his own family history, and his new novel that draws on both, Thus Bad Begins.
Date: 1990-11-25
Name(s): Atwood, Margaret, 1939-, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Stuewe, Paul, 1943-, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: INTERVIEW: Books in Canada editor Paul Steuwe discusses Margaret Atwood's work as a poet. INTERVIEW & READING: Margaret Atwood discusses her poetry and reads from Selected Poems, 1966-1984 (1990, Oxford Univ. Press)
Date: 2020-03-15
Name(s): Ratmanskiĭ, Alekseĭ, 1968-, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Ratmansky talked to Eleanor Wachtel about his new work, Of Love and Rage, his time with the Bolshoi, and creating Romeo and Juliet for the National Ballet of Canada.
Date: 2020-05-24
Name(s): Hertmans, Stefan, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Acclaimed Flemish author Stefan Hertmans talks to Eleanor about The Convert, a love story between a young Christian woman and a Jewish student amid the chaos and terror of the First Crusade.
Date: 2012-01-29
Name(s): Rabinovitch, Sandra, Sem-Sandberg, Steve, 1958-, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: From Sweden: writer, journalist and translator Steve Sem-Sandberg, whose novel, The Emperor of Lies, about a Jewish ghetto in Poland during the Second World War, is an international sensation.
Date: 1998-01-25
Name(s): Pinker, Steven, 1954-, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Interview with one of America's leading cognitive scientists, Steven Pinker. His last book, The Language Instinct, was a surprising bestseller. Now he's taken on an even more ambitious project - how the mind works.
Date: 2010-12-05
Name(s): Rabinovitch, Sandra, Shteyngart, Gary, 1972-, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: This week on Writers and Company, Eleanor Wachtel does an onstage interview with the Russian-American novelist, Gary Shteyngart. The author of Absurdistan cuts closer to home with his latest book, Super Sad True Love Story. Gary Shteyngart was born in Leningrad in 1972 and immigrated to the United States when he was seven. He's been described as "one of his generation's most original and exhilarating writers."
Date: 2020-01-26
Name(s): Choi, Susan, 1969-, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Winner of the 2019 National Book Award, Trust Exercise is a timely exploration of sexual politics, fiction and truth. Author Susan Choi talks to Eleanor Wachtel about the novel, and about exploring the experiences of Asian-American characters in her work.
Date: 2018-11-25
Name(s): Orlean, Susan, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Bestselling American writer Susan Orlean talks to Eleanor Wachtel about her new title The Library Book, which tells the story of the devastating fire at the Los Angeles Central Library - and the significance of Orlean's own childhood library.
Date: 2013-01-20
Name(s): Stamm, Peter, 1963-, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: This week: from Switzerland - the highly acclaimed novelist, playwright, and journalist, Peter Stamm. He's described as a master of powerful, enlightening stories. His latest book to be translated into English is called We're Flying.
Date: 2014-01-19
Name(s): Rabinovitch, Sandra, Tan, Twan Eng, 1972-, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Eleanor speaks with the Malaysian writer Tan Twan Eng. His latest novel, The Garden of Evening Mists, was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and won the Man Asian Literary Prize.
Date: 2002-12-08
Name(s): Nāsarina, Tasalimā, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Writers and Company, host Eleanor Wachtel talks with the Bangladeshi physician, writer and poet Tasalimā Nāsarina. She has been under continuous attack from the religious leaders of her country and throughout the world for her widespread efforts in defence of women's rights; she has lived in exile since 1994. Her novel Shame brought her international acclaim as a new feminist voice. Her latest book, a memoir, is called Meyebela: My Bengali Girlhood - A Memoir of Growing up Female in a Muslim…
