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Bestselling French novelist David Foenkinos talks with Eleanor Wachtel about his acclaimed books The Mystery of Henri Pick; Charlotte; and Lennon: The New York Years.

Semezdin Mehmedinović talks to Eleanor Wachtel about how a near fatal heart attack inspired his newest novel, My Heart: a Novel, and how surviving the Bosnian War inspired his celebrated book, Sarajevo Blues. *Note: The audio for this episode was recorded during the Covid-19 lockdown and contains occasional low-level equipment-related distortion.

The Swedish novelist and playwright Jonas Hassen Khemiri has received international acclaim for his innovative, politically charged work. Khemiri spoke with Eleanor Wachtel about his latest novel, Everything I Don't Remember, onstage at the Blue Metropolis Literary Festival in Montréal.

"Dreaming Australia: Changing Visions of a Country" part four. Michelle de Kretser's writing raises interesting questions about Australian identity and culture. This week on Writers & Company, the talented novelist explains how themes of dislocation and discovery fit into her works. Also on the program, an interview with Kate Grenville, an author who finds inspiration in Australian history.

Eleanor Wachtel speaks with the Booker Prize-winning novelist, short story writer, and Oscar-winning screenwriter, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala. From Heat and Dust to The Remains of the Day from Room With a View to The Golden Bowl, her collaboration with Merchant-Ivory Productions began in 1963.

This week, from Scotland, the quirky, original and provocative writer, A.L. Kennedy. From the complexities of sex to the spiritual aspects of bullfighting, A.L. Kennedy pushes the boundaries of convention. Eleanor Wachtel spoke to A.L. Kennedy on stage last spring at the Manulife Literary Arts Festival in Victoria.

This week on Writers and Company, host Eleanor Wachtel talks with Guatemalan American writer Francisco Goldman. Goldman talks about how two cultures - North American Jewish, and Guatemalan - coexisted in his childhood Boston household. The author of The Long Night of White Chickens has a new novel about the revolutionary Cuban hero, José Martí, called The Divine Husband.

Eleanor interviews an author described as the cleverest, most entertaining - and most notorious - English writer of his age, Martin Amis. Amis reads from his books The Information and Visiting Mrs. Nabokov, and Other Excursions