Writers and Company from CBC Radio

Alice Oswald on poetry, nature and the shedding of identity

To celebrate poetry month, a conversation with one of England’s greatest living poets, Alice...

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The beautiful, melancholy world of Anita Desai

This week on Writers and Company, Anita Desai — one of India's most celebrated and successful...

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James Runcie on the beauty, sorrow and genius of Johann Sebastian Bach

James Runcie's novel, The Great Passion, imagines a year in the life of Johann Sebastian Bach,...

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How Hisham Matar's writing reflects life under dictatorship and the pain of his father's abduction

This week, two conversations with the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning memoir The Return. In...

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Irish writers Michael Collins, Claire Keegan, Colum McCann and Nuala O'Faolain reflect on home and away

This week on Writers and Company from the Archives, Irish authors Michael Collins, Claire Keegan,...

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Catherine Lacey imagines a character without race or gender in her novel, Pew

The American novelist and short story writer talked to Eleanor Wachtel about growing up in...

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Martin Amis on The Zone of Interest and Primo Levi’s unshakeable influence

This week, two conversations with Martin Amis, one of England’s most engaged and provocative...

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James McBride on the complicated history of race in the United States

American novelist and musician James McBride is best known for his bestselling memoir, The Color...

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How writer and scholar Anne Carson used elegy to piece together fragments of her late brother

This week on Writers & Company from the Archives, Canadian poet, essayist, Greek and Latin...

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Xiaolu Guo traces her unlikely journey from a rural Chinese fishing village to life in London as a writer

WARNING: This discussion deals with suicide. Novelist, memoirist and filmmaker Xiaolu Guo...

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The incomparable Philip Roth: looking back on his life in fiction

Looking back on Philip Roth, one of the most celebrated American writers, who died in 2018, aged...

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Alain Mabanckou on his profound connection to the Republic of the Congo

The celebrated Congolese-French writer joined Eleanor Wachtel onstage at the Vancouver Writers...

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The enduring magic of The Little Prince: with Stacy Schiff, Mark Osborne and Éric Dupont

This week on Writers & Company from the archives, celebrating a classic that’s also one of the...

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Elizabeth Jane Howard looks back on learning, love and her marriage to Kingsley Amis

Best known for her Cazalet Chronicles and a dozen other books, English novelist Elizabeth Jane...

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How fighting for Indigenous rights shaped Alexis Wright as a storyteller

Australia's most celebrated Indigenous author Alexis Wright spoke to Eleanor Wachtel in 2009...

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Dionne Brand, Margaret Drabble, Deborah Eisenberg & Andrew O'Hagan reflect on life and writing

This week, to strike a celebratory note, an encore presentation of Writers & Company's 20th...

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Nobel Prize-winner Seamus Heaney on the place of politics in poetry

Winner of the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature, Irish poet Seamus Heaney died ten years ago when he...

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How writing helped Lore Segal survive a traumatic wartime childhood

At 95, Lore Segal has been writing for almost sixty years. The author of Other People's Houses,...

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A virtuoso of the short story, Lydia Davis's work is surprising and memorable

Lydia Davis has been called "one of the quiet giants in the world of American fiction." Her 2007...

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In her prizewinning fiction, Sigrid Nunez deals with life — and death — with empathy and wit

WARNING: This discussion deals with suicide. Sigrid Nunez's eighth title, The Friend, won the...

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