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This week, Invisible Forms: A Guide to Literary Curiosities - from footnotes to marginalia with England's Kevin Jackson. Also, more from Australia - its myths and the male psyche, with David Foster.

Eleanor Wachtel speaks with English playwright and novelist Michael Frayn. From his award-winning farce, Noises Off, to Copenhagen, his provocative encounter between physicists Niels Bohr and Werner Heisenberg; from the tragi-comic, Headlong to his latest novel, Spies, Frayn is witty and intelligent.

Eleanor Wachtel talked with Margaret Atwood at the Royal Ontario Museum this past week as part of a benefit for World Literacy's 50th anniversary. They spoke about Atwood's new collection, Moving Targets: Writing with Intent, 1982 to 2004.

Michael Ondaatje talks about his new novel, Anil's Ghost. Set during the civil war in Sri Lanka, it's an evocation of fear, violence, and grace.

This week, Writers & Company presents the third of a four-part series on "The New Face of France." In this episode, Eleanor Wachtel talks with the provocative and influential public intellectual, Alain Finkielkraut. Also, from Algeria, novelist Zahia Rahmani, whose story explores the painful experience of growing up in France as the daughter of a harki - one of the Algerians who fought with the French army during the bitter Franco-Algerian war.

This week on Writers and Company: To wrap up the special series on France, Eleanor Wachtel speaks with Djiboutian author Abdourahman Waberi - part of a new generation of transcontinental African writers living in France. She also speaks with one of the country's most influential television journalists, Christine Ockrent.

This week, Writers & Company presents a round table from the Blue Metropolis Literary Festival in Montréal - named the City of Words this year by UNESCO. Eleanor Wachtel talks with four writers - Marianne Ackerman, Joël Des Rosiers, Dimitri Nasrallah and Pierre Nepveu - about the changing face of Montréal's literary scene.

Eleanor Wachtel talks with the Nobel Prize-winning poet Derek Walcott this week on Writers & Company. From his Homeric evocation of the fishermen of his native St Lucia in Omeros, to The Prodigal - his newest journey through the landscapes of Europe and the New World - Walcott is one of the great poets.

This week on Writers and Company, two expatriate Russian writers, now living in Montréal - Mikhail Iossel and Bakhyt Kenjeev - join James Meek, Guardian correspondent in Russia and author of a novel set in Siberia, in a round table recorded at the Blue Metropolis Literary Festival. They talk about the country they knew, and where it is now.

This week on Writers and Company, host Eleanor Wachtel talks with the Bad Boy of Brit Lit - Martin Amis. His new novel, The House of Meetings, is being touted as his best ever. Set in the Russian Gulag, it's a love triangle with a twist.

This week on Writers and Company, host Eleanor Wachtel talks with a Nobel Prize-winning writer from Turkey, Orhan Pamuk. He's the author Istanbul and Snow, and also has a new book of essays entitled The Other Colors.

Featuring Pulitzer Prize-winning American author Annie Dillard. Famous for her Thoreau-like nature book - Pilgrim at Tinker Creek - and her charming memoir - An American Childhood - Annie Dillard is one of America's most-admired prose stylists.

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