Date: 2004-01-11
Name(s): Feldman, Susan, Kushner, Tony, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: This week on Writers & Company - Angels in America. Host Eleanor Wachtel talks with Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Tony Kushner about his epic and its transformation from the stage into a new six-hour TV movie.
Date: 2020-04-12
Name(s): Croft, Jennifer (Translator), Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Award-winning translator Jennifer Croft tells her own remarkable story in her memoir, Homesick — a poignant exploration of language, sisterhood and her struggle with depression.
Date: 1991-01-13
Name(s): Raban, Jonathan, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Shields, Carol, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: INTERVIEW: Travel writer Jonathan Raban discusses literary travel writing and his own work. READING: Raban reads from Hunting Mister Heartbreak: a discovery of America (1991, Harper Collins) at the Vancouver Writer's Festival. INTERVIEW: Carol Shields discusses her personal reading habits and American editor and novelist Peter De Vries.
Date: 2000-03-12
Name(s): Krog, Antjie, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Truth and Reconciliation: a look at the transformation of South Africa with one of foremost Afrikaner poets and journalists, Antjie Krog.
Date: 2020-12-06
Name(s): Dangarembga, Tsitsi, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Celebrated writer and filmmaker Tsitsi Dangarembga spoke with Eleanor Wachtel about her latest novel, This Mournable Body, the final book in a trilogy that began with her widely acclaimed debut, Nervous Conditions.
Date: 2022-06-19
Name(s): Batuman, Elif, 1977-, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Swailes, Katy, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Selin is back! The bright and curious heroine of Elif Batuman's acclaimed debut novel, The Idiot, is now in her second year at Harvard, still hungry for experience. From awkward sexual encounters to depression to ongoing questions of how to live and to become a writer – in Batuman's new novel, Either/Or, that quest leads Selin to some uncomfortable places, but also to self-discovery. Batuman's first book, The Possessed, traced her passion for all things Russian. Her novel, The Idiot, was a…
Date: 2023-06-04
Name(s): Limón, Ada, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Swailes, Katy, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Called "a poet of ecstatic revelation," U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón brings an observant eye and sense of wonder to all her work – from 2015's Bright Dead Things, to her acclaimed 2018 collection, The Carrying, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry. Limón discusses and reads from her latest book, The Hurting Kind, which is a finalist for the $130,000 Griffin Poetry Prize. After the interview, Eleanor receives messages from fans of the show.
Date: 2022-01-16
Name(s): Harjo, Joy, Swailes, Katy, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: This week, from Tulsa, Oklahoma, U.S. Poet Laureate Joy Harjo. A member of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation, Joy Harjo's work is a powerful mix of the spiritual and political. In Poet Warrior, she reflects on both the joys and harsh realities of her early life and how she found refuge in poetry, music and art. *Note: The audio for this episode was recorded during the Covid-19 lockdown and contains occasional low-level equipment-related distortion.
Date: 2011-10-02
Name(s): Dasgupta, Uma, Nussbaum, Martha C. (Martha Craven), 1947-, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: An icon from India - Rabindranath Tagore wrote in virtually every literary genre, and he was also as accomplished painter. In 1913, Rabindranath Tagore was the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. To celebrate the 150th anniversary of his birth, Eleanor Wachtel speaks with literary scholar Uma Dasgupta and American philosopher Martha Nussbaum.
Date: 2021-02-21
Name(s): Iannucci, Armando, 1963-, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Scottish writer and director Armando Iannucci spoke with Eleanor Wachtel about Charles Dickens, finding truth in satire, and his latest movie, The Personal History of David Copperfield.
Date: 2019-02-10
Name(s): Goldsworthy, Vesna, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Inspired by literary classics, Serbian-British writer Vesna Goldsworthy engages with life in London through the lens of Eastern European and Russian characters. She talks to Eleanor Wachtel about her latest novel, Monsieur Ka.
Date: 1990-12-02
Name(s): Barnett, Allen, Bumbalo, Victor, Glendinning, Victoria, McGehee, Peter, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: INTERVIEW: Victoria Glendinning discusses her biographies of female writers. READING: Peter McGehee reads from his forthcoming novel, Boys Like Us (1991, HarperCollins). PANEL: McGehee, Victor Bumbalo, and Allen Barnett discuss their writing as gay men in the AIDS era. READING: Allen Barnett reads from his story collection, The Body and Its Dangers, and Other Stories (1990, St. Martins/McClelland & Stewart). READING: Victor Bumbalo reads a scene from his play, "Adam & the Experts" (1990…
Date: 1995-11-19
Name(s): Glendinning, Victoria, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: This week on Writers & Company - Eleanor Wachtel speaks with British author Victoria Glendinning. Famous for her literary biographies, Glendinning has now written a Victorian novel of her own called Electricity.
Date: 2022-11-20
Name(s): Hornby, Nick, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Swailes, Katy, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Charles Dickens and Prince were both brilliant, driven and beloved by their fans. And both died before their time, producing and performing to the end. It wasn't until his early twenties that Nick Hornby read Dickens, around the same time he attended his first Prince concert. He still keeps their photos on his office wall, and in his new memoir, Dickens and Prince: A Particular Kind of Genius, he explores the parallels between these two heroes and how their creativity inspires his own prolific…
Date: 2016-10-02
Name(s): Nguyen, Viet Thanh, 1971-, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Eleanor speaks with Vietnamese American author Viet Thanh Nguyen, winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for his debut novel, The Sympathizer. Viet talks about his family's harrowing escape from Saigon, and how his dual identity influences his life and work.
