Date: 2005-11-20
Name(s): Rabinovitch, Sandra, Seth, Vikram, 1952-, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: This week on Writers and Company, host Eleanor Wachtel talks with Vikram Seth. From England and India, the author of the blockbuster novel A Suitable Boy has a powerful new memoir, a family history called Two Lives. Two Lives is about Seth's great uncle Shanti and his great aunt Henny, whose lives span the 20th century and much of its political turmoil.
Date: 1993-11-07
Name(s): Kavanagh, Peter, 1953-2016, Seth, Vikram, 1952-, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Vikram Seth discusses his novel A Suitable Boy. Considered the biggest book of the year, it's a story about families, love, marriages, and manners - set against the political events of a newly-independent India.
Date: 1992-10-25
Name(s): Gallant, Mavis, Gaudon, Jean, Handler, Richard, 1950-, Michaud, Yves, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Voices from a New Europe: Writers in Western Europe at the End of 1992, Series Part 7 - "France après Sartre," Eleanor Wachel discusses culture and politics in France with literary scholar Jean Gaudon and art critic Yves Michaud; Then, author Mavis Gallant talks with Eleanor about her life as a Canadian expat in Paris.
Date: 1992-09-13
Name(s): Handler, Richard, 1950-, Steiner, George, 1929-2020, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Voices from a New Europe: Writers in Western Europe at the End of 1992 , Series Part 1 of 10 - In this first episode of the series, Eleanor Wachtel interviews the eminent literary critic and scholar, George Steiner.
Date: 1992-11-15
Name(s): Enzensberger, Hans Magnus, Handler, Richard, 1950-, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Voices from a New Europe: Writers in Western Europe at the End of 1992, Series Part 10 - "Europe, Europe." A special episode with German poet and essayist Hans Magnus Enzenberger. He discusses growing up in Germany during the rise (and fall) of Nazism, the reunification of east and west, and Germany in the new Europe.
Date: 1992-11-08
Name(s): Handler, Richard, 1950-, Marías, Javier, Montero, Rosa, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Voices from a New Europe: Writers in Western Europe at the End of 1992, Series Part 9 - "The New Spain." Eleanor Wachtel discusses changes in Spain since the death of Franco with Spanish authors Javier Marías and Rosa Montero.
Date: 1995-04-09
Name(s): Godbout, Jacques, 1933-, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Scanlan, Larry, 1948-, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Voices from Québec series, episode 1: with author, journalist, and filmmaker Jacques Godbout.
Date: 1995-04-16
Name(s): Le Beau, Hélène, Proulx, Monique, 1952-, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Scanlan, Larry, 1948-, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Voices from Québec series, episode 2 - Two newer voices - Monique Proulx and Hélène Le Beau. Their prize-winning novels are original, disturbing and compassionate. At last, each has a book available in English.
Date: 1995-04-23
Name(s): Dandurand, Anne, 1953-, Daoust, Jean-Paul, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Scanlan, Larry, 1948-, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Voices from Québec series, episode 3 - Voices from the edge - Anne Dandurand and Jean-Paul Daoust, two provocative Québec writers. Anne Dandurand writes about alienated women, erotic fantasy, and violence. And award-winning poet Jean-Paul Daoust talks about gay desire and walking "like a float down Rue Saint-Denis."
Date: 1995-04-30
Name(s): Brossard, Nicole, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Scanlan, Larry, 1948-, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Voices from Québec series, episode 4 - with award-winning poet Nicole Brossard, considered one of the most influential and avant-garde writers in Québec.
Date: 1995-05-07
Name(s): Bissonnette, Lise, Champagne, Dominic, Dubois, René-Daniel, 1955-, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Scanlan, Larry, 1948-, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Voices from Québec series, episode 5: with author and journalist Lise Bissonnette, and playwrights René-Daniel Dubois and Dominic Champagne.
Date: 1997-11-09
Name(s): Barker, Pat, 1943-, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Part Two of our series on War & Remembrance: This week, Eleanor Wachtel speaks with English novelist Pat Barker. Barker has written an extraordinary trilogy of novels about World War I - starting with Regeneration and concluding with her Booker Prize winner, The Ghost Road.
Date: 1997-11-16
Name(s): Fussell, Paul, 1924-2012, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: To conclude our series on War & Remembrance - Eleanor Wachtel speaks with American World War II veteran, author, and professor of literature, Paul Fussell. Fussell is famous for his acute analyses of both World Wars and the ways they have been mythologized. His latest book is Doing Battle: The Making of a Skeptic.
Date: 1997-11-02
Name(s): Knox, Bernard, 1914-2010, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Today, the first episode of a three-part series on War & Remembrance: Eleanor Wachtel speaks with English classicist Bernard Knox on Homer, the character of Odysseus, and about Homer's Iliad and Odyssey.
Date: 2021-01-10
Name(s): Moore, Wayétu, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: In her memoir, The Dragons, The Giant, The Women, Liberian American writer Wayétu Moore explores the impact of civil war on her birth country, her family, and in her own life.
