Career
After living in Kenya, and the United States, she moved to Vancouver in the mid-'70s where she worked as a freelance writer and broadcaster. During this time she was Adjunct Professor of Women's Studies at Simon Fraser University. In the fall of 1987, Wachtel became Literary Commentator on CBC Stereo's State of the Arts in Toronto. Her next assignment was as writer-broadcaster for The Arts Tonight, reporter for The Arts Report. She hosted The Arts Today from 1996 to 2007. Wachtel has been host of CBC Radio's Writers & Company since its inception in 1990.
A selection of Wachtel's interviews called Writers & Company was published in 1993; More Writers & Company was published by Knopf Canada in the fall of 1996. In 2003, another selection of her interviews, titled Original Minds, was brought out by HarperCollins. Wachtel is a contributor to the best-selling, Dropped Threads (2001), edited by Carol Shields and Marjorie Anderson, and Lost Classics (2000), edited by Michael Ondaatje and others. In 2007, she published Random Illuminations: Conversations With Carol Shields. Wachtel has co-edited two books: The Expo Story (1986), and Language in Her Eye (1990), and is the co-author of A Feminist Guide to the Canadian Constitution (1992).
Since 2007, Wachtel has also hosted Wachtel on the Arts on IDEAS.
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