Date: 2001-09-30
Name(s): Rabinovitch, Sandra, Richler, Mordecai, 1931-2001, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: This week on Writers & Company, Mordecai's Version: a look back at Canadian novelist and satirist, the late Mordecai Richler. When Mordecai Richler died in early July, there was a huge outpouring of tributes, affection, and admiration. The man who prided himself on being a tough satirist, who rather enjoyed skewering - well, virtually everyone, Jew, WASP, or Francophone - was finally, and wholeheartedly, well-loved. On this program you'll hear a conversation Mordecai Richler had with…
Date: 2003-01-26
Name(s): Hijuelos, Oscar, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Host Eleanor Wachtel talks with Cuban-American writer Oscar Hijuelos. He is perhaps best known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love. It was made into a movie starring Armand Assante and Antonio Banderas. Oscar Hijuelos talks to Eleanor Wachtel about his roots, about growing up in New York, and about the music that inspired him. His latest novel is A Simple Habana Melody (From When the World Was Good).
Date: 2008-06-22
Name(s): Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor, Xi, Chuan, 1963-, Zhang, Lijia, 1964-
Description: Interest in China and its culture has mushroomed, as both the soaring economy and the approaching Olympics have drawn that country into the spotlight. Writers & Company host Eleanor Wachtel visited China recently, and spoke with some of that country's leading Authors, artisans and artists. This week on Writers and Company, hear her conversation with writer Lijia Zhang. Zhang talks with surprising candour about the repression she experienced while working in a missile factory. Also, poet Xi…
Date: 1991-03-24
Name(s): Burns, Martha, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Sullivan, Rosemary, 1947-, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: On Canadian poet and novelist, Elizabeth Smart. READING I: Martha Burns reads from Elizabeth Smarts's epic poem "By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept" (1945, Editions Poetry). INTERVIEW: Biographer Rosemary Sullivan discusses her biography of Smart - By Heart: Elizabeth Smart, a Life (1991, Penguin Books Canada). READING II: Burns continues reading Smart
Date: 1992-02-23
Name(s): Gallant, Mavis, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: A special program on one of the world's great short story writers, Canadian author Mavis Gallant. She talks about her work and being an expat in Paris, and reads her story "The End of the World."
Date: 1993-01-31
Name(s): Rabinovitch, Sandra, Soyinka, Wole, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Today on Writers & Company - A special program with Nigerian Nobel Prize winner, Wole Soyinka. He talks about the political life of his country, his years in prison without trial, and the connections between European and African literature.
Date: 1991-03-10
Name(s): Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor, Walcott, Derek
Description: INTERVIEW: Interview and readings with poet Derek Walcott. READING I: "Sabbaths, W.I.". READING II: "The Schooner 'Flight'". READING III: "Forest of Europe" READING IV: from Omeros (1991, HarperCollins).
Date: 1992-12-13
Name(s): Rabinovitch, Sandra, Rushdie, Salman, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: The British author Salman Rushdie was in Canada for the first time since he was sentenced to death almost four years ago for writing The Satanic Verses. Rushide talks about his life, faith, and writing.
Date: 1991-05-26
Name(s): Gordimer, Nadine, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: INTERVIEW: Nadine Gordimer Special - Novelist Nadine Gordimer is interviewed about her life growing up in a segregated South Africa and gives a READING from her novel My Son's Story.
Date: 2000-10-08
Name(s): Atwood, Margaret, 1939-, Bloom, Harold, Brodsky, Joseph, 1940-1996, Doyle, Roddy, 1958-, Ford, Richard, 1944-, Forster, Margaret, 1938-2016, Glendinning, Victoria, Gordon, Mary, 1949-, Munro, Alice, 1931-2024, Ondaatje, Michael, 1943-, Pietropaolo, Damiano, Steiner, George, 1929-2020, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: A special episode in honour of Writers & Company's tenth anniversary. This episode includes excerpts from previous guests, as well as a panel with Michael Ondaatje, Mary Gordon, Richard Ford and Victoria Glendinning, who talk about reading and writing.
Date: 1992-12-06
Name(s): Morrison, Toni, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Host: Eleanor Wachtel A special program on African-American author Toni Morrison. She talks about her life, her writing, and her most recent novel Jazz. Before the interview Morrison reads from one of her earlier novels, Song of Solomon. Following the interview, she reads an excerpt from Jazz. (Both are readings are excerpts from Random House audiobooks.)
Date: 1993-01-17
Name(s): Rabinovitch, Sandra, Sontag, Susan, 1933-2004, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: A special program on American writer and critic Susan Sontag. Sontag, one America's most brilliant and innovative thinkers, discusses and reads from her surprising novel, The Volcano Lover.
Date: 1997-03-09
Name(s): Clark, Thekla, Davenport-Hines, R. P. T. (Richard Peter Treadwell), 1953-, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: A special tribute to W.H. Auden, described as the greatest poet of the 20th century. Eleanor talks to Auden biographer Richard Davenport-Hines. She also speaks with Thekla Clark - a friend of Auden's - about her charming memoir. This episode also features several recordings of Auden reading from his work.
Date: 2001-03-25
Name(s): Shields, Carol, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: A tale of two novelists: one of Canada's most beloved writers, Carol Shields, takes on the life of one of the most popular female novelists of all time in her new biography, Jane Austen (2001, Viking)
Date: 2009-11-22
Name(s): Boyden, Joseph, 1966-, Chaudhuri, Amit, 1962-, London, Joan, 1948-, MacLeod, Alistair, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Strout, Elizabeth, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: From the Vancouver Writers Festival - a panel in tribute to Alice Munro. Eleanor Wachtel gathers togetherJoseph Boyden, Amit Chaudhuri, Joan London, Alistair MacLeod, and Elizabeth Strout to talk about the work of Alice Munro.
