Rabinovitch, Sandra

A special interview with Salman Rushdie
An interview with Booker Prize-winning author Michael Ondaatje
A special episode with Canadian short story writer Mavis Gallant
Interviews with English author Jane Gardam and American writer Edith Iglauer
"Burning Books" : Conversations with Chilean-American author Ariel Dorfman and English filmmaker Peter Greenaway
Biographer Jane Dunn on Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell; Doris Petrie performs Barbara Nichol's "Dippers"
An interview with crime fiction author Elmore Leonard; Michael Ondaatje discusses his love of film.
A panel on the ethics of literary biography, with Michael Holroyd, Alan Judd, and Diane Wood Middlebrook. Then, an interview and reading with Ann Beattie
Interviews with German travel writer Eric Newby and German filmmaker Volker Schlöndorff
An interview with science essayist Stephen Jay Gould, plus, a specially commissioned story written and read by Carol Shields
Interviews with filmmaker John Sayles and biographer Hilary Spurling
Biographer Diane Wood Middlebrook on the life of poet Anne Sexton; American essayist Bernard Cooper on his collection Maps to Anywhere
Dana Gioia, Gary Geddes, and Rosemary Sullivan talk about the question, "Can Poetry Matter?" Then, Josephine Humphreys on Southern culture and her new novel, The Fireman's Fair
Interviews with filmmaker Henry Jaglom and playwright Sarah Daniels
Mark Helprin's novel of the Great War, and Wendy Lesser on art and gender
Interviews with Penelope Lively and Bill Schermbrucker, and a performance of James Joyce's Ulysses in honour of Bloomsday
An interview with Uruguayan writer Eduardo Galeano and a performance by Toronto storyteller Gary Hophan
A lively debate on revising the classics canon in universities, with Stanley Fish, Stanley Crouch, and Catharine Stimpson; Phyllis Rose discusses women's writing lives
Interviews with novelist and poet Vikram Seth and French-Canadian author Nicole Brossard
And interview and readings with fiction writer Gordon Lish, and Saros Cowasjee discusses his anthology Women Writers of the Raj
Poet Rita Dove talks about her work and reads from her collections, and biographer Ronald Hayman talks about the life and work of Marcel Proust
Claire Tomalin on Dickens' Relationship with Nelly Ternan; Novelist Rohinton Mistry on his novel Such a Long Journey, with an excerpt read by Sugith Varughese
Interviews with short story author Amy Hempel and Canadian poet and playwright Dan Moses
Interviews with Irish writer Bernard MacLaverty, and co-editors of Feminist Companion to Literature in English, Patricia Clements and Isobel Grundy
A conversation with the delightful Sybille Bedford