Date: 2000-04-02
Name(s): Mda, Zakes, Mhlophe, Gcina, 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 2: Two writers from Johannesburg that worked in theatre and television - poet, storyteller, actress, and playwright Gcina Mhlope, and the award-winning playwright and novelist Zakes Mda.
Date: 2000-04-09
Name(s): Afrika, Tatamkulu, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Rampolokeng, Lesego, 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 3: Poetry or rap - interviews with rant poet Lesego Rampolokeng, who talks about life in Soweto, and from Cape Town, Tatamkulu Afrika.
Date: 2000-04-16
Name(s): Dangor, Achmat, 1948-2020, Gordimer, Nadine, 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 4: Eleanor Wachtel talks with the award winning novelist Achmat Dangor. Also, from her home in Johannesburg, Nobel Prize winner Nadine Gordimer. Her latest book is a collection of essays called Living in Hope and History.
Date: 2023-01-22
Name(s): Hsu, Hua, 1977-, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Cultural journalist Hua Hsu has written about everything from the World Cup to Nirvana. Now, he's focusing on an important piece of his personal story – the senseless murder of his close friend from college and its impact on Hsu's own life. An exploration of grief, friendship and Asian-American identity, Stay True: a Memoir is also a coming-of-age story, told through music and pop culture. It was named one of the best books of 2022 by The New York Times, The Atlantic and The Washington Post,…
Date: 1995-03-19
Name(s): Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor, Walker, Alice, 1944-
Description: Eleanor Wachtel interviews one of the most popular African-American women Authors, Alice Walker. Famous for The Colour Purple, Alice Walker has also written short stories, essays, and other notable novels of the Black American experience.
Date: 2005-04-10
Name(s): Murray, Nicholas, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: This week, Writers & Company kicks off a three-part series called "The Writer Behind the Image". Today, Kafkaesque: a look at one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century - Franz Kafka, through the eyes of biographer Nicholas Murray.
Date: 2000-04-23
Name(s): Cahill, Thomas, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: On The Hinges of History. Eleanor Wachtel talks to Thomas Cahill about his popular and provocative books How the Irish Saved Civilization and The Gifts of the Jews, and most recently, Desire of the Everlasting Hills: The World Before and After Jesus.
Date: 2003-01-12
Name(s): Lott, Tim, 1956-, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Host Eleanor Wachtel talks with English writer Tim Lott. From his memoir The Scent of Dried Roses to his latest novel, Rumours of a Hurricane, his is an edgy new voice.
Date: 2014-11-02
Name(s): Cochran, Cate, 1955-, Wachtel, Eleanor, Winton, Tim
Description: Australian novelist Tim Winton has officially been named a "Living Treasure" by the country's national trust. His latest novel focuses on Western Australia's resource and mining boom and its effect of the country and people.
Date: 1997-06-08
Name(s): Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor, Winton, Tim
Description: Eleanor Wachtel interviews the "literary wunderkind of West Australia," Tim Winton, live at the Manulife Literary Arts Festival in Victoria, B.C. At 36, he's already published 13 books in as many years. His last novel, The Riders, was short-listed for the Booker Prize.
Date: 2002-10-27
Name(s): Blaise, Clark, Dunmore, Helen, 1952-2017, Enright, Anne, 1962-, Iyer, Pico, Ricci, Nino, 1959-, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: This week on Writers & Company - "Time is of the Essence": Five writers reflect on their relationship with time - what it means, how we use it and how it works its way into literature. Guests include Anne Enright, Helen Dunmore, Pico Iyer, Clark Blaise, and Nino Ricci.
Date: 1997-02-09
Name(s): Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor, Wolff, Tobias, 1945-
Description: Interview with the award-winning American author Tobias Wolff. Best known for his memoir, This Boy's Life, and for his vivid and painfully honest account of his time in Vietnam. Wolff brings a sense of irony and moral ambiguity to his new book of short stories, The Night in Question.
Date: 2005-01-16
Name(s): Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor, Wolfe, Tom
Description: This week on Writers and Company, host Eleanor Wachtel talks with the man in the white suit - Tom Wolfe. The provocative author of The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, The Bonfire of the Vanities and the current the best-seller, I Am Charlotte Simmons, talks about journalism, fiction and America.
Date: 2012-05-13
Name(s): Morrison, Toni, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Eleanor Wachtel speaks with the Nobel Prize winning novelist, Toni Morrison. The New York Times described Morrison as "the nearest thing America has to a national novelist." Now, the author of Beloved, Jazz, Paradise and Love has a brand new novel called simply, Home.
Date: 2003-10-26
Name(s): Morrison, Toni, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: This week on Writers and Company, host Eleanor Wachtel talks with Nobel Prize-winning American novelist Toni Morrison. The author of Jazz, Beloved and Paradise has an evocative new novel called Love.
