Date: 2001-10-14
Name(s): Findley, Timothy, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: A conversation with one of Canada's best-loved writers, Timothy Findley. A great story-teller and playwright, Findley's latest novel, Spadework, is set in his new hometown of Stratford, Ontario. Eleanor Wachtel spoke with Timothy Findley onstage at the University of Calgary as part of the Markin-Flanagan Distinguished Writers Programme & PanCanadian Wordfest.
Date: 2016-09-25
Name(s): Oswald, Alice, 1966-, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Eleanor speaks with one of England's greatest living poets, Alice Oswald, about combining her love of classics with her love of the natural world. Her new book, Falling Awake, is a finalist for the 2016 Forward Prize for Poetry.
Date: 1999-11-28
Name(s): Godfrey, Lisa, Strand, Mark, 1934-2014, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Eleanor Wachtel in conversation with Pulitzer Prize-winning American poet Mark Strand. The former Poet Laureate of the United States talks about his very early years in Prince Edward Island and Nova Scotia, and how poetry can give expression to emotional coherence.
Date: 2011-02-06
Name(s): Ford, Richard, 1944-, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: This week on Writers & Company, an interview recorded onstage at a special PEN benefit at the International Festival of Authors in Toronto. American writer Richard Ford talks about his ground-breaking Frank Bascombe trilogy. Also, a preview of his next novel - set in southern Saskatchewan - called Canada.
Date: 2003-11-30
Name(s): Bedford, Sybille, 1911-2006, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Sybille Bedford is Eleanor Wachtel's guest this week on Writers and Company. At 92, this most extraordinary writer - novelist, biographer, reporter and essayist - reflects on almost a century of life and literature.
Date: 2001-03-04
Name(s): Bellow, Saul, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Soles, Paul, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: A conversation with the Nobel Prize-winning American writer, Saul Bellow - the original voice in Jewish-American fiction. From The Adventures of Augie March to Ravelstein, Bellow's career has spanned fifty years.
Date: 2004-06-06
Name(s): Christie, Ian, 1945-, Haskell, Molly, MacMillan, Margaret, 1943-, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: To mark the 60th anniversary of D-Day, this week Writers & Company takes a look at war and film with distinguished Canadian historian Margaret Macmillan, American movie critic Molly Haskel and English film writer Ian Christie.
Date: 1991-09-29
Name(s): Davies, Robertson, 1913-1995, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: INTERVIEWS and READINGS: Canadian novelist Robertson Davies discusses his writing and ideas, and reads from his latest, Murther & Walking Spirits at Toronto's Wintergarden Theatre.
Date: 1995-10-29
Name(s): Bair, Deirdre, Brutus, Dennis, 1924-2009, Drabble, Margaret, 1939-, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Today on Writers & Company, two remarkable writers discuss literary biography - English novelist Margaret Drabble, and the award-winning American biographer of Simone de Beauvoir, Deirdre bair. Eleanor also talks with South African expatriate poet Dennis Brutus.
Date: 2013-05-12
Name(s): Atkinson, Kate, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: English writer Kate Atkinson, perhaps best known for her Jackson Brodie mystery novels. Her first book in that series, Case Histories, was described by Stephen King as not just the best novel he'd read that year, but the best mystery of the decade. Her new book, the most ambitious and widely praised novel yet, is called Life After Life. Eleanor Wachtel spoke with her onstage at Harbourfront in Toronto.
Date: 1991-06-02
Name(s): Crouch, Stanley, Fish, Stanley Eugene, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Stimpson, Catharine R., 1936-, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Part I: Eleanor holds a Panel discussions with Stanley Fish, Stanley Crouch, and Catharine Stimpson on the debate around revising the Classics canon in universities. Part II: Biographer and essayist Phyllis Rose discusses women's writing lives. Her latest book is Never Say Goodbye.
Date: 1993-05-09
Name(s): Godfrey, Lisa, Thomas, Audrey, 1935-, Wachtel, Eleanor, Walters, Suzanna Danuta
Description: Part 3 of the series "West Coast Writers" - with Audrey Thomas. Her latest novel, Graven Images, is about memory, history, and mothers. Also, in honour of Mother's Day, a look at mothers and daughters in popular culture with sociologist and gender studies professor, Suzanna Walters.
Date: 2014-03-16
Name(s): Henry, Nancy (Professor of English), Mead, Rebecca, Prose, Francine, 1947-, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: This week on Writers and Company, a discussion about George Eliot`s masterpiece, Middlemarch, the book Virginia Woolf described as: "One of the few English novels written for grown-ups." Host Eleanor Wachtel brought together three Middlemarch enthusiasts to talk about the book's importance: New Yorker writer Rebecca Mead, who has written My Life in Middlemarch, George Eliot's latest biographer, Nancy Henry, and the American novelist, essayist, critic and short story writer, Francine Prose.
Date: 2018-09-09
Name(s): Brand, Dionne, 1953-, Cole, Teju, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Thien, Madeleine, 1974-, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: In celebration of the 100th anniversary of Brick Literary Journal, Eleanor Wachtel hosts a panel with Dionne Brand, Teju Cole & Madeleine Thien on-stage at the Toronto Reference Library. They discuss the idea of 'Place' in their life and work.
Date: 2005-06-19
Name(s): Butala, Sharon, 1940-, Dumont, Marilyn, 1955-, Stenson, Fred, 1951-, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Vanderhaeghe, Guy, 1951-, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: This week on Writers & Company, to celebrate the centenary of Saskatchewan and Alberta in Confederation, four writers talk about the land they know, its history, myths, colours, smells, and reality. Sharon Butala, Marilyn Dumont, Fred Stenson, and Guy Vanderhaeghe join Eleanor Wachtel live onstage in Saskatoon.
