Sunday, March 31, 2013 | Categories: Episodes |
American novelist and short story writer Marisa Silver was inspired by an iconic 1936 image of a migrant mother. She re-imagines the lives of...
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Sunday, March 24, 2013 | Categories: Episodes |
This week, more memoirs; our 2003 conversation with one of Quebec's most influential writers, Michel Tremblay. In a career spanning over 40 years, he's written...
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Friday, March 22, 2013 | Categories: Episodes |
Sadly, the Nigerian novelist, poet and essayist, Chinua Achebe, has died this week at the age of 82. He was perhaps best known for...
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Monday, March 18, 2013 | Categories: Episodes |
We thought you'd like to know: Eleanor Wachtel's interview with Patti Smith aired on "Wachtel on the Arts" on IDEAS on Tuesday, March 19th at 9...
Monday, March 18, 2013 | Categories: Episodes |
March 19th is Philip Roth's 80th birthday. Celebrate by listening to Eleanor Wachtel's 2009 conversation with him. ...
Sunday, March 17, 2013 | Categories: Episodes |
An encore presentation of Eleanor's conversation with the American novelist and children's book author, Paula Fox. She talks about her own extraordinary childhood in her...
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Sunday, March 10, 2013 | Categories: Episodes |
This week, families and memoir - or is it fiction? An encore presentation of Eleanor Wachtel's 2001 conversation with the popular English novelist, Margaret Drabble,...
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Sunday, March 3, 2013 | Categories: Episodes |
A conversation with the American writer George Saunders. When Saunders won a MacArthur "genius grant" - half a million dollars, no strings - they talked...
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