• Writers and Company

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Writers and Company

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  • CBC Radio's Writers and Company offers an opportunity to explore in depth the lives, thoughts and works of remarkable writers from around the world. Hosted by Eleanor Wachtel.
    Copyright © CBC 2024
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Episodes
  • Hari Kunzru on race, politics and the blues

    Hari Kunzru on race, politics and the blues
    Jun 2 2024

    The British born author moved to New York in 2008 to write a book set in sixteenth-century India. But he was drawn to write about America, focusing on life in the city and the Mojave Desert in his two novels White Tears and Gods Without Men. Hari Kunzru spoke with Eleanor Wachtel in 2017 from New York
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    53 mins
  • How using her imagination saved Scottish author Jackie Kay

    How using her imagination saved Scottish author Jackie Kay
    May 26 2024

    Jackie Kay’s adoption as a baby, and investigation into her birth parents — a Nigerian father and Scottish mother — give her an original take on Scotland and cultural identity. Jackie Kay talked about her uncomfortable discoveries upon meeting her birth parents, as well as her two books, Wish I Was Here and Darling: New and Selected Poems, when she met with Eleanor Wachtel at the Scottish Poetry Library in Edinburgh in 2007.
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    53 mins
  • Alice Munro on writing about life, love, sex and secrets

    Alice Munro on writing about life, love, sex and secrets
    May 19 2024

    In 2004, just before she won the Scotiabank Giller Prize (for the second time) for her story collection, Runaway, Alice Munro met Eleanor Wachtel at a restaurant near the author's home to discuss her new book, her interest in writing about infidelity and sex and her life growing up in Wingham, Ontario. The acclaimed Canadian short story writer, and Canada's first winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, died on May 13, 2024.
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    53 mins
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