Date: 2016-04-03
Name(s): Abani, Chris, Aw, Tash, Ozeki, Ruth, 1956-, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Eleanor speaks with three writers - Chris Abani, Tash Aw and Ruth Ozeki - about how our faces affect questions of identity and belonging.
Date: 2002-06-30
Name(s): Clark, Joan, 1934-, Clarke, George Elliott, MacLeod, Alistair, Norman, Howard A., Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: For generations, Canada's Atlantic coast has inspired stories that evoke the powerful character of the landscape and its people. Host Eleanor Wachtel and writers Alistair MacLeod, George Elliott Clarke, Howard Norman and Joan Clark talk about Canada's east coast and why it has captured the imagination of writers from the Atlantic and beyond.
Date: 1994-04-10
Name(s): Ashenburg, Katherine, Hearne, Vicki, 1946-2001, Ritchie, Harry, Scanlan, Larry, 1948-, Sinkler, Rebecca, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Part 1: A book reviewing panel with Harry Ritchie of the London Sunday Times, Rebecca Sinkler of the New York Times Book Review, and Katherine Ashenburg of the Globe and Mail.. Part 2: An interview and reading from American poet, philosopher, novelist, and animal trainer, Vicki Hearne.
Date: 2004-02-29
Name(s): Stinson, Mary (Producer), Sutherland, John, 1938-, Thomson, David, 1941-, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: This week on Writers and Company, Just in time for the Oscars, a look at a broad range of novels, classic and modern, that have been adapted for the silver screen. Eleanor Wachtel talks with movie expert David Thomson and man of letters John Sutherland.
Date: 1998-03-29
Name(s): Griffin, Susan, Novick, Sheldon M., Ozick, Cynthia, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Today on Writers & Company - A look at Henry James in books and movies. Host Eleanor Wachtell talks with three James enthusiasts: Susan Griffin, Sheldon Novick, and Cynthia Ozick.
Date: 1997-12-14
Name(s): Gallant, Mavis, Mantel, Hilary, 1952-2022, Mukherjee, Bharati, Parini, Jay, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: This week on Writers & Company, to honour International Children's Day, Eleanor speaks with four celebrated Authors about the books they read as kids - the books that changed their lives, and their favourite books from 1997. Our guests this week are Mavis Gallant, Hilary Mantel, Bharati Mukherjee, and Jay Parini.
Date: 2004-02-08
Name(s): Naves, Elaine Kalman, Ravvin, Norman, 1963-, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Tulchinsky, Aren X., Wachtel, Eleanor, Yanofsky, Joel, 1955-2020
Description: Canadian Jewish voices this week on Writers & Company. From A. M. Klein to Mordecai Richler, Montreal has been at the hub of Jewish Canadian writing. The heart of that literary life has been Montreal's Jewish Public Library - the oldest in Canada. To celebrate the library's 90th birthday, Eleanor Wachtel was joined on stage by Elaine Kalman Naves, Norman Ravvin, Karen Tulchinsky and Joel Yanofsky.
Date: 2016-06-26
Name(s): Gornick, Vivian, Harrison, Kathryn, Mount, Ferdinand, 1939-, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: This week - a panel on the art of the memoir. Eleanor speaks with American memoirists Vivian Gornick and Kathryn Harrison, and England's Ferdinand Mount. They discuss what to tell, who to implicate, and how to deal with the consequences.
Date: 2008-11-02
Name(s): Glendinning, Victoria, Kunzru, Hari, 1969-, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Tóibín, Colm, 1955-, Wachtel, Eleanor, Wright, Ronald, 1948-
Description: Politics in Literature' Panel: This week on Writers & Company, four writers joined Eleanor Wachtel at the Toronto International Festival of Authors for a discussion on 'Politics in Literature.' Victoria Glendinning, Hari Kunzru, Colm Tóibín, and Ronald Wright engage with the political, the personal, and the profound. Love's Civil War: Elizabeth Bowen And Charles Ritchie by Victoria Glendinning is published by McClelland & Stewart. My Revolutions by Hari Kunzru is published by Penguin.…
Date: 1991-03-03
Name(s): Beatty, Nancy, Davis, Thulani, Haskell, Molly, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Sterritt, David, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: PANEL: Film critics Thulani Davis (Village Voice), Molly Haskell (Vogue), and David Sterritt (Christian Science Monitor) discuss racial stereotyping and 'liberal guilt' tendencies in Hollywood movies. FILM CLIPS: This episode contains scenes from Dances with Wolves (1990), The Long Walk Home (1990), and Do The Right Thing (1989) [CONTENT WARNING: THIS CLIP CONTAINS LANGUAGE AND THEMES THAT COULD BE DEEMED OFFENSIVE]. LIT FEATURE: "Midnight Shift", by Helen Potrebenko, read by Nancy Beatty.
Date: 2011-09-11
Name(s): Antoon, Sinan, 1967-, Kramer, Jane, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor, Waldman, Amy, 1969-
Description: This week, a Panel discussions to mark the tenth anniversary of September 11th. Host Eleanor Wachtel with guests Amy Waldman, Sinan Antoon and Jane Kramer talk about how the events of September 11th have influenced literature over the intervening years, both in the west and in the Arab and Muslim world.
Date: 1991-11-24
Name(s): Beattie, Ann, Holroyd, Michael, Judd, Alan, 1946-, Middlebrook, Diane Wood, 1939-2007, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Part I: Biographers Michael Holroyd (G.B. Shaw, Vol. 3, 1991, Little Brown), Alan Judd (Ford Madox Ford, 1990, Harvard), and Diane Wood Middlebrook (Anne Sexton: a Biography, 1991, T. Allen) discuss the ethics of literary biography; Part II: American fiction writer Ann Beattie discusses her writing about contemporary life and her latest story colletion, What Was Mine. Beattie reads from her story "A Windy Day at the Reservoir." (from Harbourfront, Toronto).
Date: 2006-09-10
Name(s): Deathridge, John, Orchard, Andy, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: This week on Writers and Company, host Eleanor Wachtel talks with John Deathridge, Wagner scholar at the Music Department of King's College London. and with Andy Orchard, Director of the Centre for mediaeval Studies at the University of Toronto. They'll look at the myth and the legend behind 'The Ring,' and how Wagner took stories from the Middle Ages and re-invented them for his own creation of a German national identity.
Date: 1997-01-19
Name(s): Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor, Wiesel, Elie, 1928-2016
Description: A rare interview with Nobel Peace Prize winner, author, and Holocaust survivor, Elie Wiesel. Host Eleanor Wachtel and Wiesel - author of more than 30 books - discuss family, faith, and life after Auschwitz and Buchenwald. His newest memoir is All Rivers Run to the Sea: Memoirs, Vol. I, 1928–1969.
Date: 1996-05-26
Name(s): Ashbery, John, 1927-2017, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: A rare interview with Pulitzer Prize-winning American poet John Ashbery. Ashbery - often touted as the next Nobel Laureate from the United States - discusses poets and poetry and reads from his work.
