The CBC's Eleanor Wachtel has spent a quarter-century interviewing the world's greatest authors and has written a book that includes her best exchanges. She suggested we pose in the green room with the book covers masking our faces.” ( Supplied photo )Eleanor Wachtel is on a quest. “I’m struggling to find something as compelling as her Neapolitan novels — the perfect combination of soap opera and social history — that I wallowed in last summer,” Wachtel adds. The interplay between a writer’s life and his or her work would, years later, become the hallmark of Writers & Company. But the weekly research required to be well versed in a writer’s work and life — “cramming for a final,” she calls it — is taking a toll.

Source: thestar July 03, 2016 13:52 UTC