Date: 2019-11-03
Name(s): Aw, Tash, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Malaysian author Tash Aw spoke to Eleanor Wachtel at the Vancouver Writers Festival about his new book, We, the Survivors, a haunting tale of migration and murder.
Date: 2012-11-18
Name(s): Cole, Teju, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Nigerian-American author Teju Cole's novel, Open City - described by The Atlantic as "a psychological hand-grenade" - was named a best book on more than twenty end-of-year lists. He talks about the book with Eleanor Wachtel.
Date: 1999-10-10
Name(s): Rabinovitch, Sandra, Schlöndorff, Volker, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor, Zischler, Hanns, 1947-
Description: Part 1 of a special series called "Ten Years After: the New Berlin." Host Eleanor Wachtel talks to writers from East to West, to reflect the reality of Berlin today - a new capital with an old history. Eleanor starts off this series by talking to German actor Hanns Zischler and German film director Volker Schlöndorff.
Date: 1999-10-17
Name(s): Rabinovitch, Sandra, Schlink, Bernhard, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Part 2 of "Ten Years After: the New Berlin." Host Eleanor Wachtel talks to writers from East to West, to reflect the reality of Berlin today - a new capital with an old history. This episode - Eleanor talks to law professor and judge Bernhard Schlink about his surprising bestseller The Reader - an unforgettably disturbing novel.
Date: 1999-10-24
Name(s): Biermann, Pieke, Burmeister, Brigitte, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Part 3 of "Ten Years After: the New Berlin." Host Eleanor Wachtel talks to writers from East to West, to reflect the reality of Berlin today - a new capital with an old history. This episode - Eleanor talks to Pieke Biermann, an award-winning crime writer whose edgy, authentic fiction probes the underworld of the city, and to Brigitte Burmeister, a novelist from the former East who writes about Berlin before and after the Wall.
Date: 1999-10-31
Name(s): Fischer, Erica, 1943-, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Schneider, Peter, 1940-, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Part 4 of "Ten Years After: the New Berlin." Host Eleanor Wachtel talks to writers from East to West, to reflect the reality of Berlin today - a new capital with an old history. This episode, Eleanor talks with Erica Fischer, whose book Aimée & Jaguar documents a surprising war-time love story, and to Peter Schneider, an astute chronicler of Berlin and the German psyche.
Date: 1999-11-07
Name(s): Rabinovitch, Sandra, Schulze, Ingo, 1962-, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Part 5 of Ten Years After: the New Berlin. Host Eleanor Wachtel talks to writers from East to West, to reflect the reality of Berlin today - a new capital with an old history. In this final episode of the series on Berlin, Eleanor talks with Ingo Schulze, a young novelist for the former East who's hailed as the new voice of post-unification Germany.
Date: 2001-09-16
Name(s): Drabble, Margaret, 1939-, Schama, Simon, Shattuck, Roger, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: This week of Writers & Company - terrorism and society. Art historian and critic, Simon Schama, Emeritus Professor of English, Roger Shattuck and novelist and biographer, Margaret Drabble reflect on the attack in the United States.
Date: 2012-04-15
Name(s): Hadley, Tessa, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: This week on Writers and Company, host Eleanor Wachtel speaks with British author Tessa Hadley. She's had almost as many short stories published in the New Yorker in the last ten years as her hero, Alice Munro. Her first novel, Accidents in the Home, was described by England's Guardian newspaper as fantastically subtle, absorbing and delightful. Now Tessa Hadley has written a novel called The London Train.
Date: 2019-10-06
Name(s): Hadley, Tessa, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: English novelist and short story writer Tessa Hadley talks to Eleanor Wachtel about the subtleties of adult love, friendship and marriage in her new novel, Late in the Day.
Date: 2022-05-08
Name(s): Marceau, Marcel, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Staerkle-Drux, Maurizius, Swailes, Katy, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: World-famous French mime Marcel Marceau is the subject of a new documentary exploring his life and legacy — from Resistance hero during the Second World War, to inspiring generations of artists. The Art of Silence, a film by Maurizius Staerkle-Drux, is part of the 2022 Hot Docs Film Festival. *Note: The audio for this episode was recorded during the Covid-19 lockdown and contains occasional low-level equipment-related distortion.
Date: 1994-10-23
Name(s): Lopate, Phillip, 1943-, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Reid, Alastair, 1926-2014, Scanlan, Larry, 1948-, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: The Art of the Personal Essay - Part I: Eleanor speaks with Scottish writer Alastair Reid about his life and travels. Part II: American essayist Phillip Lopate on his new anthology.
Date: 2009-01-25
Name(s): Brand, Dionne, 1953-, DeSoto, Lewis, Joris, Lieve, 1953-, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Sicking, Anja, 1965-, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Stable, tolerant, liberal--that's the reputation long enjoyed by the Netherlands. But, that changed dramatically a few years ago when outspoken filmmaker Theo van Gogh was murdered. The country's enviable social model was called into question. Tune in to Writers & Company this week for a continuation of "The Dutch Debate: New Realities of the Netherlands." In this series, host Eleanor Wachtel talks to some of the Netherlands' leading writers about immigration's impact on Dutch identity and…
Date: 2009-01-11
Name(s): Mak, Geert, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Stable, tolerant, liberal--that's the reputation long enjoyed by the Netherlands. But that changed dramatically a few years ago when outspoken filmmaker Theo van Gogh was murdered by a Dutch Muslim. The country's enviable social model was called into question. This week, Writers & Company launches the series "The Dutch Debate: New Realities of the Netherlands." Over the next four weeks, host Eleanor Wachtel talks to some of the Netherlands' leading writers about immigration's impact on…
Date: 2009-01-18
Name(s): Nooteboom, Cees, 1933-, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: The Dutch Debate: New Realities of the Netherlands, Pt.1, with Cees Nooteboom: Stable, tolerant, liberal--that's the reputation long enjoyed by the Netherlands. But that changed dramatically a few years ago when outspoken filmmaker Theo van Gogh was murdered. The country's enviable social model was called into question. Tune in to Writers & Company this week for a continuation of "The Dutch Debate: New Realities of the Netherlands." In this series, host Eleanor Wachtel talks to some of the…
