Writers Company

"[Eleanor's] sense of respect, her tact, her utter lack of obsequiousness . . . and her uncanny ability to ask difficult questions . . . have endeared her to readers and listeners."—Carol Shields Eleanor Wachtel is one of the English-speaking world's most respected interviewers. This book, celebrating her show's twenty-five-year anniversary, presents her best conversations from the show, including Jonathan Franzen, Alice Munro, J.M. Coetzee, Zadie Smith, W.G. Sebald, Toni Morrison, Seamus Heaney, and nearly a dozen others who share their views on process and the writing life. Eleanor Wachtel has been host of CBC Radio's Writers & Company since its inception in 1990.

Interviews with Isabel Allende, Martin Amis, John Berger, Harold Bloom, E.L. Doctorow, Amitav Ghosh, Kazuo Ishiguro, Jamaica Kincaid, Oliver Sacks, Carol Shields, Jeanette Winterson and more.

A reference and sourcebook of work-at-home company listings for freelance editors and writers. This ebook has compiled a listing of telecommuting companies that previously and currently hire freelance editors, writers and bloggers to work from home. All contact details are provided and verified as of the book's publication. HEA-Employment.com is a work-at-home job listing service. Our website offers job seekers access to thousands of available work-at-home job opportunities. Over the years we compiled a listing of thousands of legitimate telecommuting companies that hire telecommuters and virtual assistants. The companies listed in this ebook are currently hiring or have hired people to work from home in the past. The companies are accept resumes for current and future job openings. HEA-Employment.com has the most comprehensive work at home job database on the Internet today with access to 1000's of work at home jobs and home based business opportunities from over 1,000 job boards all on one site. From part-time and temporary to full-time and permanent, every type of job is included. You can select when you want to work, how much you want to work and how much you want to be paid.

In July 2010, teachers of writing came together at the Macomb Intermediate School District in Clinton Township, Michigan, to share their knowledge, experience and creative expression in language arts as participants in Oakland Universitys Meadow Brook Writing Project. Affiliated with the National Writing Project, the Meadow Brook Writing Projects 2010 Summer Institute provided these teachers with the opportunity to learn from each other and write together during a month of intensive professional development. IN THE COMPANY OF WRITERS 2010 is the wonderful anthology resulting from their collaboration. All participants, from elementary through college, returned to their classrooms inspired and ready to pass this inspiration on to their own students in order to help them become better writers.

For a month in the summer of 2004, a select group of teachers from the greater Detroit area of Southeastern Michigan assembled on the campus of Oakland University in Pawley Hall. There they bonded through the sharing of personal and professional writings. The diverse group of two dozen educators took the risk of becoming students once again so as to become more assured teachers. In the Company of Writers 2004 is the fifth in a series of ongoing anthologies coming from this Meadow Brook Writing Project experience. As a result of this collaborative effort to enhance writing skills and instructional practices, participants from kindergarten through college level returned to their classrooms in the Fall especially inspired to pass on to their students the many innovations they had so bravely ventured to learn. "The best teachers of writing are other teachers. They will establish a connection with their students (and) also serve as writing experts to their fellow instructors." Dr. Ron Sudol Director MBWP "The Writer's Workshop has shown me ways to release the voice in me, so that I can release the voice in my students." Janice Dunbar 2004 Meadow Brook Fellow

Anton Chekhov is revered as a boldly innovative playwright and short story writer - but he wrote more than just plays and stories. In this book, the author introduces readers to some other sides of Chekhov.

Set in Europe in the aftermath of the Second World War, the nine stories in this glittering collection reflect on the foibles and dilemmas of human relationships. An English family goes to the south of France for the sake of the father’s health, and to get away from an England of rationing and poverty. A displaced person turned French soldier in Algeria now makes a living as an actor in Paris. A group of selfish English expatriates on the Italian Riviera are incredulous that Mussolini and the Germans may affect their lives. A great writer’s quiet widow blossoms in widowhood, to the surprise and alarm of her children, who send a ten-year-old grandson to Switzerland to keep her company one Christmas. Full of wry humour and penetrating insights, this is Mavis Gallant at her most unforgettable.