Date: 2018-12-16
Name(s): Dupont, Éric, 1970-, Osborne, Mark, 1970-, Schiff, Stacy, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: To celebrate the 75th anniversary of the beloved classic, Le Petit Prince, three longtime fans join Eleanor Wachtel to discuss the book's universal appeal - and how it has touched their lives.
Date: 1993-01-03
Name(s): Gellhorn, Martha, 1908-1998, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: A portrait of the extraordinary life of author and war correspondent Martha Gellhorn. In this fascinating interview, Gellhorn shares her unique perspective on world history in the 20th century.
Date: 1994-02-13
Name(s): Mathews, Aidan Carl, Scanlan, Larry, 1948-, Tóibín, Colm, 1955-, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Two younger writers to wrap up this special series on Irish Authors. Part I: Colm Tóibín, who's won prizes for his novels and has just edited an anthology of new Irish writing. Part II: Aidan Mathews reads from his new collection Lipstick on the Host.
Date: 1999-05-30
Name(s): Rabinovitch, Sandra, Rushdie, Salman, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Host Eleanor Wachtel interviews Salman Rushdie live onstage in Toronto. They talk about the reality that he inhabits, about living under the fatwah, and about his new novel, The Ground Beneath Her Feet.
Date: 2020-01-05
Name(s): Obreht, Téa, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Serbian American author Téa Obreht spoke to Eleanor Wachtel about mythology and ghosts in her acclaimed novels The Tiger's Wife and Inland.
Date: 2016-05-08
Name(s): Carson, Anne, 1950-, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Eleanor speaks with the award-winning Canadian poet, essayist, Greek and Latin scholar, and librettist, Anne Carson - on stage at Montreal's Blue Metropolis Festival.
Date: 2003-05-04
Name(s): Atwood, Margaret, 1939-, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Host Eleanor Wachtel talks with one of Canada's literary giants: Margaret Atwood. Eleanor Wachtel spoke with Margaret Atwood on stage at the Omni Hotel in Montreal as part of a fundraiser for the McGill Centre for Research and Teaching on Women. An entertaining and wide-ranging conversation, they talk about Margaret Atwood's writing and about her new novel, Oryx and Crake.
Date: 2010-05-16
Name(s): Barry, Kevin, Doyle, Roddy, 1958-, Keegan, Claire, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Ireland has excelled in literature, winning four Nobel Prizes - which for a country of four million is some kind of record - and in the art of the short story. This week, the magic of the Irish short story, then and now - with Roddy Doyle (The Deportees), Claire Keegan (Walk the Blue Fields) and Kevin Barry (There Are Little Kingdoms).
Date: 2014-12-07
Name(s): Lalami, Laila, 1968-, Martin, Valerie, 1948-, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor, Waters, Sarah, 1966-
Description: Historical fiction has been described as pioneer country, without fixed laws, a hybrid form, halfway between fiction and nonfiction. Sometimes it's just a story set in another time. More often, it re-visits a particular historic moment or character, re-imagining it all from a new perspective. Today. Eleanor talks with Moroccan-American, Laila Lalami, Britain's Sarah Waters, and from the U.S., Valerie Martin, about the mysterious mapping of historical fiction.
Date: 2006-03-19
Name(s): Beigbeder, Frédéric, Marouane, Leïla, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Sfar, Joann, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: This week, Writers and Company begins a new four-part series called "The New Face of France". Liberté! Egalité! Fraternité! France's revolutionary ideals are at risk as the country grapples with racism, religious intolerance, inequalities and civil unrest. Eleanor Wachtel travels to Paris to speak with a diverse group of writers and thinkers about these 21st century realities. In this first episode, Eleanor conducts a lively Panel discussions featuring three provocative writers: novelist and…
Date: 2006-03-26
Name(s): Rabinovitch, Sandra, Rufin, Jean-Christophe, 1952-, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: This week on Writers & Company, part 2 of a four-part series called "The New Face of France." Eleanor Wachtel talks with Jean-Christophe Rufin. He is a best-selling novelist and two-time winner of the Prix Goncourt. He's also a doctor and a longtime activist with the Nobel Prize-winning Doctors Without Borders.
Date: 2006-04-02
Name(s): Finkielkraut, Alain, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Rahmani, Zahia, 1962-, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: This week, Writers & Company presents the third of a four-part series on "The New Face of France." In this episode, Eleanor Wachtel talks with the provocative and influential public intellectual, Alain Finkielkraut. Also, from Algeria, novelist Zahia Rahmani, whose story explores the painful experience of growing up in France as the daughter of a harki - one of the Algerians who fought with the French army during the bitter Franco-Algerian war.
Date: 2006-04-09
Name(s): Ockrent, Christine, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Waberi, Abdourahman A., 1965-, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: This week on Writers and Company: To wrap up the special series on France, Eleanor Wachtel speaks with Djiboutian author Abdourahman Waberi - part of a new generation of transcontinental African writers living in France. She also speaks with one of the country's most influential television journalists, Christine Ockrent.
Date: 1991-09-08
Name(s): Atwood, Margaret, 1939-, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Tan, Amy, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: INTERVIEW: American novelist Amy Tan discusses her book The Kitchen God's Wife (1991, Putnam) and her Chinese-American sensibility. READING: Tan reads "Too Much Yin" from The Kitchen God's Wife at Toronto Harbourfront. INTERVIEW and READING: Canadian writer Margaret Atwood on the darker aspects of her new fiction collection Wilderness Tips (1991, McClelland & Stewart) and reads excerpts from "Hairball."
Date: 2000-03-26
Name(s): Langa, Mandla, 1950-, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: "The New South Africa" - A special series that takes you into the lives and writings of novelists and poets with experiences of detention, banning, exile, and celebration. Series episode 1: This afternoon - from Johannesburg, Mandla Langa.
