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Eleanor Wachtel

@EleanorWachtel

3 years

A friend just sent me this:

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Exactly 1 yr ago, I announced that I was wrapping up W&C. Listeners responded, hoping for access to a digital archive. Now I’m thrilled that the complete 33-year run -1000 hrs- will be available to anyone, free of charge! CBC has partnered w/ SFU’s Special Collections +RareBooks.

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When asked what book I'd take to a desert island, I said, The Stories of Alice Munro. There is so much there that you can read + reread + always find more. I can’t remember when she wasn’t in my life or through her writing, revealing things to me about my life. Her loss is huge.

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@EleanorWachtel

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Here's a link to my first interview with #AliceMunro about one of my favourite of her books, "Friend of My Youth" back in 1990, the 1st season of #WandC

Alice Munro on Writers & Company (1990)

Alice Munro's first appearance on CBC's Writers & Company with Eleanor Wachtel, shortly after the show's launch in the fall of 1990.

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Eleanor Wachtel

@EleanorWachtel

4 months

When asked what book I'd take to a desert island, I said, The Stories of Alice Munro. There is so much there that you can read + reread + always find more. I can’t remember when she wasn’t in my life or through her writing, revealing things to me about my life. Her loss is huge.

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What an incredible experience to be chair of the jury of the most extraordinary book club in the world. The next few weeks will be daunting and exhilarating. Stay tuned.

The Booker Prizes

@TheBookerPrizes

7 months

Announcing the #InternationalBooker2024 dates: 〰️ Longlist: 11 March 〰️ Shortlist: 9 April 〰️ Winner: 21 May Find out more about this year's judges and prize:

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The W & C Archive is unique. To devote a whole hour to a single author, incl'g 14 Nobel winners, their voices in intimate, wide-ranging conversations. Poet Alastair Reid wrote “Voice is perhaps the most essential and lasting incarnation of any existence.”

All 33 years of Writers & Company episodes to become available in public digital archive | CBC Books

CBC partnered with Simon Fraser University's Special Collections and Rare Books and the SpokenWeb project to make the episodes available.

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6 years

"Ondaatje said he felt it was important to acknowledge the authors who never won the Booker prize, specifically naming William Trevor, Barbara Pym and Alice Munro." #MichaelOndaatje wins poll for BEST of @ManBookerPrize 50th anniversary

The English Patient wins public poll of best Man Booker in 50 years

Golden Booker names Michael Ondaatje’s bestselling novel as public’s favourite winner

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3 years

Saddened by the death of the groundbreaking Quebec writer Marie-Claire Blais, age 82, in Key West. She pub'd her first novel La Belle Bête at 20 + her best-known novel, A Season in the Life of Emmanuel, at 26. It won the Medici and France-Quebec awards. Prolifically talented.

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6 years

Extraordinary surprise to come upon this poem by #DennisLee tonight at St Clair West subway station. Who put it there? #bravoToronto

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4 years

So sad to hear about the death of John le Carre, a man of warmth + style. I know he was 89 but it comes as a shock. I had the honour of interviewing him at his homes in Cornwall + later London -occasions that stand out for sheer pleasure + stimulation.

John le Carré on his legacy as a spy-turned-novelist | CBC Radio

Eleanor Wachtel travelled to London in 2017 to chat with the bestselling British author about his storied career and the book A Legacy of Spies. le Carré died on Dec. 12, 2020.

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1 year

What an honour to be working with such a remarkable group of writers, artists and readers. I’ve been following @TheBookerPrizes forever!

The Booker Prizes

@TheBookerPrizes

1 year

We are delighted to reveal the judging panel for the #InternationalBooker2024 . Chair of judges @EleanorWachtel will be joined by @NatalieGDiaz , @RomeshG , William Kentridge and @augiewatts . Find out more about the judges and the prize:

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4 years

Exciting News: Frances McDormand to Star in ‘Women Talking’ adapted and directed by @realsarahpolley from the novel by Miriam Toews! via @variety

Frances McDormand to Star in ‘Women Talking’ From Director Sarah Polley

Frances McDormand is producing and starring in a film adaptation of the novel "Women Talking" with Sarah Polley directing.

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"“For a woman, any literary award, honours, notice of any sort has been an uphill climb. And if she insists upon flouting convention + writing science fiction + fantasy + indescribable stuff, it’s even harder.” Ursula Le Guin last year. Our convo:

Ursula K. Le Guin, acclaimed science fiction writer, dead at 88 | CBC Books

Le Guin was a prolific writer, having published more than 20 novels, a dozen poetry collections, seven essay collections and 13 children's books.

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Saddened to hear about the death of #ASByatt aged 87. Her 1990 novel POSSESSION won @TheBookerPrizes + was made into a film w/ #GwynethPaltrow We spoke 4 times, most recently in 2009 about THE CHILDREN'S BOOK.

AS Byatt obituary

Novelist whose exhilarating genius came into its own with Possession, a worldwide bestseller and winner of the Booker prize

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“When I take pictures of writers’ [gravestones], I don’t think of them as dead. I think, here is an artist, someone who’s given me great pleasure. They’re in close proximity, their remains are right near my feet. ... I feel their presence,” #PattiSmith Sunday #WandC

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How very exciting to reach this moment, thanks to my inspiring jury. @TheBookerPrizes

The Booker Prizes

@TheBookerPrizes

5 months

We are delighted to reveal the #InternationalBooker2024 shortlist, featuring six books ‘that interweave the intimate and political in radically original ways’. ➡️ Discover the full list:

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What an extraordinary honour to be interviewed by the beloved ⁦ @madeleinethien ⁩ at my hometown festival ⁦ @Metropolisbleu ⁩ THANK YOU!!!

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1 year

So thrilled at Adapted screenplay win for @realsarahpolley Most eloquent speech. Generous as always.

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6 years

Congratulations to the winner of the $100,000 @GillerPrize 2018 #EsiEdugyan for Washington Black!

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5 years

Surely one of the most lovable and kind human beings, #WaysonChoy , most famous for his first book, The Jade Peony. So sad to think I won’t see him again.

Wayson Choy, Vancouver author of The Jade Peony, dead at 80

Choy had an illustrious career that spanned decades, winning a number of awards and becoming a member of the Order of Canada

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3 years

Saddened to hear about the death of #JoanDidion of Parkinson’s, age 87. I’ve admired her work forever, an American icon, brilliant and influential essayist + novelist. Here’s our onstage conversation @festofauthors

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"The English Patient really did begin with a nurse talking to a patient + I didn't know who they were. Then later on, I was told about a spy who had gone across the desert, and I didn't know anything about him and that was interesting." #MichaelOndaatje

For prize-winning poet and novelist Michael Ondaatje, every book is an act of discovery | CBC Radio

Beloved Canadian poet and novelist Michael Ondaatje spoke with Eleanor Wachtel about his storied career.

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"It was a transformative moment in American theatre, and ultimately in international theatre, because "A Raisin in the Sun" became so widely embraced." @ImaniPerry on the remarkable life and legacy of Lorraine Hansberry. Sunday #WandC

Imani Perry on the remarkable life and legacy of Lorraine Hansberry, author of A Raisin in the Sun...

The author and scholar on the late playwright and her seminal drama about black American life in the pre-Civil Rights era.

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"The only blasphemy is cowardice," @BobRae48 @PENCanada @SalmanRushdie 25 years ago, he was the 1st to embrace him publicly despite fatwa.

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To celebrate the inaugural US$150,000 @ShieldsPrize for Fiction Wed, our convo in 2002 about her novel Unless. "I never think in terms of something after this life. I think this is it + this is why we have to 'blurt bravely', get some words on paper + have lots of conversations."

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2 years

Congratulations to the winner of the $60,000 #BalsilliePrize for Public Policy, #JohnLorinc “Dream States: Smart Cities, Technology, and the Pursuit of Urban Utopias”

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30 years ago, #WandC carved out a space for intimate, in-depth conversations with the world’s best writers, creators + thinkers —from Nobel laureates to exciting new voices. Since we can’t celebrate in person, listen to our 20th anniversary onstage special @festofauthors Sunday

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Absolutely stunned to hear about the death of #HilaryMantel whose work I've been following -and admiring- for 30+ yrs. We spoke about her life -in Africa, Saudi Arabia, UK; her family, illness, obsessions. So generous, honest, brilliant. Our last convo:

Two-time Booker Prize winner Hilary Mantel wraps up her blockbuster Tudor trilogy with The Mirror &...

In 2020, Mantel spoke with Eleanor Wachtel about saying goodbye to her acclaimed Wolf Hall Trilogy, a fictionalized account of the rise and fall of Thomas Cromwell. The British novelist died on Sept....

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9 years

"A bad year for men at the book awards" Shouldn't that be "A good year for women + diversity at the UK book awards?"

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1 year

Join @mattgallowaycbc + @Shteyngart + Brandon Taylor @blgtylr + moi for an embarrassingly fabulous celebration!

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“As someone who lives in the US, Canadians have no idea what an extraordinary institution CBC Radio is,” @adamgopnik greeted by big applause @VanWritersFest at panel on liberal democracy. @lauralynchcbc

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The brilliant #ZadieSmith has a new book of essays, “Intimations” written during early mos of lockdown. “I was feeling a little bit desperate and entirely out of control like everybody. Writing was a way of controlling the narrative, even in my own mind.” #WandC photo @agotoronto

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What a thrill #CUproud #CU75 "Eleanor Wachtel Receives Honorary Doctorate from Carleton University" via @CUNewsroom

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8 years

Never have I felt so acutely the truth of @LilyTomlin line: "It's no use being cynical; you can't keep up."

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8 years

So sorry to hear about the death of my much beloved colleague #StuartMcLean A great loss. Hear tribute Thursday 1pm

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4 years

"My Nova Scotian father won a track scholarship to Kentucky State, not realizing that it was a historically Black college. When he arrived, it was so hot that he fainted. He awoke surrounded by a circle of Black faces...he knew then that he'd entered heaven." @NTrethewey Sun.

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Congratulations to the winner of the 2021 @NobelPrize In Literature, #AbdulrazakGurnah Here’s our 2017 conversation: Gurnah explores the pain of dislocation, from Zanzibar to England

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"There is a sense I have now that everybody needs, as it were, an unreal world to complete the real world that they have to inhabit." #ASByatt one of the most erudite, influential and imaginative writers. Sunday #WandC

Looking back at A.S. Byatt, the celebrated English novelist and imaginative intellectual | CBC Radio

Byatt died on Nov. 16, 2023 at age 87. In 2009, Eleanor Wachtel spoke with the acclaimed British author about the innate power of stories and storytelling.

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"The present is a haunted place, where we have no ideology —what joins us is fear— social democracy is being assailed from east + west at the same time. ... In Putin we have a skilled + totally unprincipled professional spy. In the W., a sort of childish Caligula." #JohnleCarre

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4 years

#EmmaThompson wrote in a romantic kiss between her character Elinor + #HughGrant (Edward) but #AngLee cut it as too romantic. "Kissing Hugh was very lovely," said Thompson. "Glad I invented it. Can't rely on Austen for a snog, that's for sure!" #TIFFAtHome

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3 years

Congratulations @omarelakkad 39 yr old, Cairo-born novelist + journalist, winner of the $100,000 28th Annual @GillerPrize Accepting the prize in honour of his father's memory.

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1 year

Stunned + saddened to hear about the death of 'era-defining British novelist' #MartinAmis aged 73 of oesophageal cancer. We spoke many times over 30 years. Here's our 2020 conversation about his autobiographical novel Inside Story:

Martin Amis on the inside story of his literary life, loves and losses | CBC Radio

The British author spoke to Eleanor Wachtel about writing a fictional account of his connections with family, friends and mentors.

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"My parents lost everything, but it's not a question of property. Everyone's house is a museum of their lives. I often talk to Bosnians who ran into a burning house to save their pictures. They didn't save the property or the gold, they saved the pictures. @SashaHemon Sun #WandC

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2 years

"Popular culture is an endless merry-go-round of nostalgia. It's like we live in an age of collage... Young people's job is to do something new...The truth is you don't make art out of other art. We make art out of life." #FranLebowitz NEW YEAR'S DAY

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6 years

"Canada is ranked as having the best public library systems among 30 major cities studied. (All three Cdn –Montreal, Toronto + Vancouver– came in the top 10.) A full 70% of Toronto’s pop'n uses the city’s 10m books, ebooks, CDs, and DVDs in 40 languages.

Risotto, robotics and virtual reality: how Canada created the world's best libraries

As libraries across the world battle for survival, one system has embraced the digital age – and in Toronto, books take a backseat

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When Virginia Woolf left her bombed London home for Sussex in 1940, "she found, to her pleasant surprise, that the enforced solitude suited her: she enjoyed the simple routine of "breakfast, writing, walking, tea, bowls, reading, sweets, bed." @francescawade Square Haunting Sun.

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8 years

In front of Leonard Cohen's house in Montreal tonight.

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6 months

On Monday, the longlist of the International @TheBookerPrizes will be revealed. Thanks to @debdundas here’s a glimpse from the pov of the chair of the jury. via @torontostar

‘I’m told there will be blood on the floor, but at the moment it’s a very nice process’: Eleanor...

The former CBC radio host of Writers and Company has spent her career interviewing international writers. Now, she’s chair of the jury that’s going to hand out an $86,000 prize.

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"Writers & Company, an award-winning program hosted by the journalist Eleanor Wachtel focused on books and authors" -great to be included in @nytimes feature on international radio shows: Listen to the Globe

Listen to the Globe (Published 2020)

Radio programming from around the world is available on the internet or through apps.

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Still reeling about the loss of #HilaryMantel Re-listening to our earlier conversations. Here's one from 2003 when she pub'd her unconventional memoir, Giving Up the Ghost about her family, childhood, endometriosis + medical misdiagnoses. A must-listen:

Hilary Mantel on her childhood, devastating illness and unconventional memoir, Giving Up the Ghost...

In 2003, English writer Hilary Mantel spoke with Eleanor Wachtel about her autobiography, Giving Up the Ghost, which offers context for much of her wide-ranging fiction: her childhood in Derbyshire,...

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Next month, major show @macmtl inspired by #LeonardCohen Here almost finished mural on Crescent St. Will be 1 year anniversary of our loss.

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“Mississippi is my state. White people don't own it. They think they do but they don't. It has created all of us, and it is a rich, wonderful soil —that is sometimes really terrifying. But this is home. So I'm not about to cede it to anyone.” @KieseLaymon today #WandC

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"Where you live dictates who you are, what you do, how you die, what happens to you afterward. It's all place. So I've become an aficionado of books about place --it's what I do and I do it with the greatest joy and pleasure." #AnnieProulx Tomorrow #WandC @Metropolisbleu

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What an extraordinary honour to be interviewed by @madeleinethien at my hometown festival @Metropolisbleu THANK YOU!!!

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Tonight I have the joy of interviewing the great @EleanorWachtel at Blue Metropolis in Montréal. This tribute to Eleanor is sold out but has an overflow room. 33 years of unforgettable conversations with writers and artists. Here she is with John Berger.

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Definitely huge congratulations! A virtuosic novel. Plus her last book, the unusual memoir, "I Am, I Am, I Am" was quite wonderful. Listen this Sunday to our conversation for the launch of the new season of #WritersAndCompany

Women's Prize

@WomensPrize

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And without further ado, we’re delighted to reveal that the winner of the 25th #WomensPrize for Fiction is Maggie O’Farrell with Hamnet. Huge congratulations, Maggie!

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It's toxic to be obsessed with self-improvement. At some point you have to accept entropy, mortality + that you can't do it all @minjinlee11

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What a pleasure to talk to @blgtylr who, at 32, writes with such depth of experience and awareness, not to mention the sheer beauty of his prose. Whose favourite writer is #MavisGallant Of course, you're Canadian. Welcome to Montreal!

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Ten years ago, when W & C was celebrating its 20th anniversary, a colleague suggested that I be interviewed onstage. I balked, saying, only if #MichaelOndaatje would do it --figuring it would never happen. Tomorrow in celebration of #WandC 30th anniversary

Eleanor Wachtel, Part 1 | Dec. 2, 2010 | Appel Salon

CBC Radio's Eleanor Wachtel is interviewed by author Michael Ondaatje at the Bram & Bluma Appel Salon at the Toronto Reference Library.

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Flying home from @aeroportsMontreal my X-rayed bag is pulled over for inspection. "You have a book in there?" First time in all my travels that a (soft-covered) book is considered dangerous.

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4 years

Congratulations to the winner of the $100,000 @GillerPrize for 2020 — #SouvankhamThammavongsa !!!

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2 years

What a thrill to be at this ambitious, remarkable co-production with UK's @TheRoyalBallet -the 1st time their collaboration is created in Canada with a Toronto premiere! Inspired by @MargaretAtwood innovative choreographer #WayneMcGregor + exceptional dancers @nationalballet

The National Ballet of Canada

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#MADDADDAMNBC made its world premiere tonight in Toronto! The audience leapt to their feet for a standing ovation following the astounding premiere. Bravo to the brilliant cast and creative team. Don't miss this amazing experience >>

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4 years

Armchair travel when you can’t leave home. #BooksConnectUs

10 of the best travel books

Now is the time to hunker down with a travel book. We pick 10 brilliant ones from the classics to comic travelogues

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With one of my heroes today @RideauHall Sarah Polley. Order of Canada presented by @GGDavidJohnston http://t.co/H3Lr1qSOg0

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4 years

Thank YOU! It means a lot!

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4 years

@EleanorWachtel I recently discovered Writers and company podcast and it proved to be a gem during the pandemic. I listened to most of the episodes - they are all great! They helped me get through the difficult times. You are a wonderful interviewer. Thank you!

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"Who knew we’d find ourselves suddenly living in the U.S.S.R. in the nineteen-seventies?" — Gary @Shteyngart Reading

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#JohnLeCarre does all his writing longhand. Here's his work desk at his home in London. Tomorrow #SeasonOpener on #WritersAndCompany

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6 years

To kick off #WandC new season, so pleased to share the stage with #DionneBrand #TejuCole #MadeleineThien in celebration of @BrickMAG 100th issue!

Teju Cole, Madeleine Thien and Dionne Brand on the places and spaces that inspire their writing |...

The three celebrated writers joined Eleanor Wachtel on stage in Toronto for a discussion about the significance of location in literature.

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British artist #DavidHockney was once described as the world’s most popular living painter—“cooler than Warhol, more enduring than Lucien Freud.” Never afraid to reinvent himself. At 85, he’s working faster and thinking bigger than ever before. Our convo this Sunday #WandC

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What a privilege to have the opportunity to meet and talk to the legendary soprano #JessyeNorman winner of the $100,000 @GlennGouldFndn about her 50 yr career + dedication to arts education @torontolibrary Looking forward to opera GALA presentation Feb 20th

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A new US$25,000 fiction prize will launch next year in honour of #UrsulaKLeGuin who died in 2018, age 88. "To imagine real grounds for hope.” I spoke to her in Portland, Oregon in 1993:

Realists of a larger reality wanted: Ursula K Le Guin prize for fiction to launch in 2022

Award aims to honour imaginative fiction that champions ‘hope and freedom, alternatives to conflict and a holistic view of humanity’s place in the natural world’

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6 years

Mine too!

Anne Giardini, OC, OBC, KC

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6 years

I asked my three grown children over dinner yesterday to name their favourite carol. Without missing a beat, eldest son said “Shields”. #CarolShields

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New tix added for tonight's A Literary Legacy: 33 Years of #WandC . A live event recorded for last original broadcast. Be part of history in the making. Join me onstage with @mattgallowaycbc along with novelists Gary @Shteyngart + @blgtylr Brandon Taylor.

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"I've spent my whole life trying to understand what I would call the mechanics of reality, what really happens in the world. So I tend to let myself go [in my writing] + I think my unconscious is what's really writing these books." #PaulAuster Today W&C

Paul Auster on writing radical life changes and leaning into random chance | CBC Radio

Eleanor Wachtel spoke to the prolific American author in 2004 about life-altering experiences and his newest novels at the time, The Book of Illusions and Oracle Night. Auster died on April 30, 2024...

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Barbara Kingsolver wins the Women’s prize for fiction for second time —for Demon Copperhead!

Barbara Kingsolver wins the Women’s prize for fiction for second time

Winning for Demon Copperhead, a ‘deeply powerful’, US-set Dickens update, the American novelist becomes the first writer to win the contest for a second time

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P.D. James at 100: the thrills and mysteries of her life as a crime writer | CBC Radio . “Someone said that a writer should have as much trauma in childhood as they can bear without breaking.” #PDJames Sunday #WandC

P.D. James at 100: The thrills and mysteries of her life as a crime writer | CBC Radio

Aug. 3, 2020, marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of P.D. James, one of England's most celebrated crime writers. Writers & Company revisits Eleanor Wachtel’s 2000 conversation with the author,...

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Defiant British Museum appoints Mary Beard as trustee

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“If I have any lasting worth, it will be because I have tried to make people remember what the earth is meant to look like,” #MaryOliver R.I.P.

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Happy 90th birthday, #AliceMunro winner of #NobelPrize and one of Canada's most brilliant writers! For our 2013 conversation And back in the fall of 1990, W & C's first season:

Alice Munro on Writers & Company (1990)

Alice Munro's first appearance on CBC's Writers & Company with Eleanor Wachtel, shortly after the show's launch in the fall of 1990.

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"My adoptive mother used to say, 'The trouble with a book, is that you never know what’s in it until it’s too late.' She knew that the power of a book would actually change the way you think, the way you imagine, perhaps change your whole world." #JeanetteWinterson Sun. #IWD2020

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#JoanDidion , American journalist and author, dies at age 87 For our 2005 conversation when she pub’d The Year of Magical Thinking:

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"Grief is what just hits you. The affliction just keeps coming over you in waves. But mourning is a kind of constructive process you go through if you allow yourself to, because it enables you to accept the death. It involves letting yourself remember." #JoanDidion Sunday #WandC

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"I always think families are your first cult that you have to disconnect from. The process of growing up is to become aware of the mythology of your family + the ways that you've been indoctrinated, and to find your own meaning and your own belief system." #DanzySenna Sun. #WandC

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Today is not only National Census Day but official pub date of my new book THE BEST OF WRITERS & COMPANY @biblioasis

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"All true living is face to face," says librarian, quoting Albert Schweitzer, in @susanorlean THE LIBRARY BOOK What a treat to meet her and talk about the love of books and the value of libraries. This Sunday #WandC

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John le Carré wins $100,000 Olof Palme prize for “outstanding achievement” + "contribution to democracy." Said he'll donate the winnings to the international humanitarian NGO Médecins Sans Frontières. For our 2017 conversation:

John le Carré on his legacy as a spy-turned-novelist | CBC Radio

Eleanor Wachtel travelled to London in 2017 to chat with the bestselling British author about his storied career and the book A Legacy of Spies. le Carré died on Dec. 12, 2020.

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Congratulations to #DavidChariandy winner of one of this year's Yale #WindhamCampbell US$165,000 prizes for fiction for "offering a vision at once entirely humane and immensely tender." Couldn't happen to a nicer person!

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6 months

The pressure is on but it remains a thrill and an honour to chair this distinguished panel.

The Booker Prizes

@TheBookerPrizes

7 months

Only two weeks to go until we announce the #InternationalBooker2024 longlist!📚 In the meantime, get to know the judging panel for this year. We asked them about their reading habits and what they are hoping to find among this year's submissions ⤵️

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8 years

At Leonard Cohen's house this afternoon in Montreal...

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4 years

Finally! My hardy daffodils have emerged after several false starts and retreats. #SpringHasSprung

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"It became absurd to deny the amount of time in my early life that I had spent spying." #JohnLeCarre A Canadian exclusive this Sunday!

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2 years

France's #AnnieErnaux age 82, wins the 2022 Nobel prize in Literature “for the courage and clinical acuity with which she uncovers the roots, estrangements and collective restraints of personal memory”. This summer, it seemed like many people I know, incl'g me, were reading her.

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"The oldest functioning bookstore in the world, the Livraria Bertrand in Lisbon, with its logo displaying 1732" shows that bookshops can survive. A Love Affair With Bookstores @biblioasis

A Love Affair With Bookstores (Published 2017)

In “Bookshops,” Jorge Carrión celebrates the intellectual and social history of bookstores around the world.

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"My father knew the difference between lies + stories: a story gets you closer to the truth, where a lie wants to subvert the truth. Especially in this time we're living in when lies and fakery are dancing around us like some kind of medieval death dance." #AliSmith This Sunday!

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2 years

When his best friend at college was murdered, @huahsu started writing. 20 yrs later, his memoir Stay True, an exploration of grief, friendship, Asian American identity + memory was named one of top 5 nonfiction titles of 2022 by @nytimesbooks Sunday #WandC

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4 years

Sad to hear about the death of #ChristopherPlummer who has died, aged 91. I've admired his charm and versatility --it feels like my whole life, yes probably starting with The Sound of Music. Here's a link (that works!) of our conversation in 2011:

Remembering legendary Canadian actor Christopher Plummer | Writers and Company with Eleanor Wachtel...

Eleanor Wachtel spoke to the Oscar-winning screen and theatre actor, admired for his roles in The Sound of Music, Beginners and All the Money in the World, in 2011. Plummer died on Feb. 5, 2021.

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1 year

Looking forward to talking to @MichaelCrummey about his powerful poetry, recent novel + sneak preview of his upcoming book!

WintersetinSummer

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1 year

@MichaelCrummey joins @EleanorWachtel in a discussion of Passengers, his latest eclectic and unpredictable collection of poetry! Tickets are available on our website! #WintersetinSummer #NLArts #ReadLocal #BookTwitter #CanadianPoetry

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"It was important for me to talk about this through the point of view of a child. They are wiser than we think + they didn’t ask to be here, they are just being punished for our faults." @NadineLabaki on her new film #Capernaum This afternoon #WandC

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Congratulations to the winner of the US$150,000 Carol Shields Prize for Fiction #VV Ganeshananthan for Brotherless Night!

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3 months

In the afterglow of last week's International @TheBookerPrizes win -KAIROS by #JennyErpenbeck translated by #MichaelHofmann I recalled my 2015 conversation with Erpenbeck. Here it is:

Jenny Erpenbeck becomes first German writer to win International Booker Prize

Michael Hofmann, a German-born poet, was announced as the first male translator to win.

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Stunned to learn that magnificent soprano #JessyeNorman has died at 74 When I met her last Feb, winner of the @GlennGouldFndn Prize, she was so generous + funny. To hear our conversation:

Opera superstar Jessye Norman reflects on political activism and her 50-year career in music | CBC...

The gifted soprano spoke with Eleanor Wachtel about her life and work at the Toronto Reference Library in early 2019. Norman died on Sept. 30, 2019.

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