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Bookends with Mattea Roach, CBC's new author interview show, to premiere this fall
Bookends with Mattea Roach will premiere on CBC Radio on Sept. 8. Roach speaks with Canadian and international writers who have something to say about their work, the world and our place in it.
Books September 12
All 33 years of Writers & Company episodes to become available in public digital archive
Books April 28
Eleanor Wachtel saying goodbye to Writers & Company after 33 remarkable years
Radio Writers & Company June 21, 2023
Madeleine Thien interviews Eleanor Wachtel on the final original Writers & Company episode
Radio Writers & Company August 30
Ali Smith on the circular movement of time in nature, life and art
Radio Writers & Company August 23
American architect Peter Eisenman discusses the leaps of faith that built his career
Radio Writers & Company August 16

Danzy Senna's darkly comic take on racial identity

Radio Writers & Company August 9

Francine du Plessix Gray on the compassion and severity required to write memoir and biography

Radio Writers & Company August 2

Joyce Carol Oates reveals the real reason her writing is so dark — rebellious roosters

Radio Writers & Company July 26

Amitava Kumar on India, the U.S. and the indelible imprint of the immigrant experience

Radio Writers & Company July 19

Edna O'Brien discusses her journey from Ireland's outcast to celebrated icon

Radio Writers & Company July 28

Laurie Anderson on language, story and losing her archives to Hurricane Sandy

Radio Writers & Company July 5

American playwright and screenwriter Tony Kushner on religion, audience and hope

Radio Writers & Company July 3

Claire Messud on her sense of home and keeping fiction away from autobiography

Radio Writers & Company July 30

British biographer Nicholas Murray reflects on Kafka's life — this month is the 100th anniversary of his death

Radio Writers & Company June 14

Why International Booker Prize winner Jenny Erpenbeck never planned on becoming a writer

Radio Writers & Company June 10

Hari Kunzru on race, politics and the blues

Radio Writers & Company May 31

How using her imagination saved Scottish author Jackie Kay

Radio Writers & Company May 27

Alice Munro wrote about life, love, sex and secrets — revisit her 2004 conversation with Eleanor Wachtel

Radio Writers & Company May 17

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

Radio Writers & Company May 10

Remembering American sculptor Richard Serra for his art that adds perception

Radio Writers & Company May 3

Award-winning poet Raymond Antrobus on hearing, seeing and grieving through verse

Radio Writers & Company April 26

Colm Tóibín writes about mother-son relationships and the silences in the life of Henry James

Radio Writers & Company April 19

Alice Oswald on poetry, nature and the shedding of identity

Radio Writers & Company April 12

The beautiful, melancholy world of Anita Desai

Radio Writers & Company April 11

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

Radio Writers & Company April 4

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