Thien and Wachtel: Between Two Icons

When: Saturday, August 8, 1:00 pm. Where: Beaches Theatre & Gallery (formerly The Beaches Arts and Heritage Centre). When: Saturday, August 8, 1:00 pm In 2024 for the very last episode of a famous radio program about literature called Writers and Company, Giller-winning writer Madeleine Thien interviewed retiring host Eleanor Wachtel. Now it’s Wachtel’s chance to turn the tables and interview Thien – about her luminous novel Book of Records, about imagination and the writing life, and who knows what else. Guaranteed to be filled with insight, humour, and just plain literary lusciousness, this talk is not to be missed. MADELEINE THIEN is the author of the story collection Simple Recipes (2001) and three previous novels: Certainty (2006), Dogs at the Perimeter (2011) and Do Not Say We Have Nothing (2016). Do Not Say We Have Nothing was shortlisted for the Booker Prize, the Women’s Prize for Fiction and the Folio Prize, and won the Governor General’s Literary Award for Fiction, among other honours. Her books have been translated into twenty-five languages, and her stories and essays have appeared in The New Yorker, Granta, the Times Literary Supplement, The New York Review of Books and elsewhere. As a librettist, she created Chinatown, a full-length opera by Alice Ping Yee Ho and Paul Yee, and collaborates on a range of chamber works. In 2024, she received the Writers’ Trust Engel Findley Award, honouring a writer in mid-career. Madeline lives in Montreal and teaches Creative Wr