Writers and Company from CBC Radio CBC

In this 2020 interview, the American poet and Pulitzer Prize winner spoke with Eleanor Wachtel about his poetry collection The Tradition, the legacy of racial violence and hopes of finding justice in an unjust world.

Eleanor speaks to the author of the controversial 2012 novel, which follows a group of friends investigating a mysterious amnesia that takes over China.

Eleanor speaks with the first Maori novelist, whose magical story The Whale Rider was a hit movie. And, the award-winning Aboriginal Australian writer, whose powerful poetry and memoir explore her history as part of Australia’s Stolen Generation.

The late, great Canadian actor talks to Eleanor Wachtel about the beginnings--and highlights--of his remarkable career, which spanned nearly seven decades

Eleanor Wachtel's 2008 conversation with the late and long-time New Yorker writer - one of the most provocative voices in journalism.

The Canadian-born American novelist talks about magic and science and her new book about the real-life witch trial of the mother of 17th century astronomer Johannes Kepler.