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Host Eleanor Wachtel interviews Jamaica Kincaid about her book, The Autobiography of My Mother.. Also, Grace Paley reading "Zagrowsky Tell's" from her collection Later the Same Day (at the Toronto International Festival of Authors).

Today on Writers & Company - A look at Henry James in books and movies. Host Eleanor Wachtell talks with three James enthusiasts: Susan Griffin, Sheldon Novick, and Cynthia Ozick.

This week: the End-of-Year Literary Panel. Eleanor Wachtel talks with four writers about the books they read as children, the books that changed their lives, and their favourite books for 1998. With Maeve Binchy, Romesh Gunesekera, P.K. Page, and Tim Parks.

A rare interview with Nobel Peace Prize winner, author, and Holocaust survivor, Elie Wiesel. Host Eleanor Wachtel and Wiesel - author of more than 30 books - discuss family, faith, and life after Auschwitz and Buchenwald. His newest memoir is All Rivers Run to the Sea: Memoirs, Vol. I, 1928–1969.

Interview I: Eleanor Wachtel interviews British author Barbara Trapido and discusses her latest book, Juggling. Interview II: Eleanor speaks with American author Bill Bryson about the English language and his book The Mother Tongue : English And How It Got That Way

Eleanor Wachtel talks with English novelist A.S. Byatt about fame, language, and her newest novel, Babel Tower.

Eleanor Wachtel interviews American astronomer and science communicator Carl Sagan on hope and being human. They discuss his new book, Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors: A Search for Who We Are. Then, an interview with American-Canadian science fiction novelist William Gibson and a reading from his cyberpunk thriller novel, Virtual Light.

An interview with Japanese-Canadian novelist Joy Kogawa about her new novel, Itsuka. An interview with the biographer Michael Shelden on his new book Orwell: The Authorised Biography

Readings and an interview with the highly acclaimed Irish poet, Seamus Heaney. Heaney talks about poetry, conflict, and Northern Ireland, and reads several of his poems. Interview with the "Master of the Fantastic," science fiction writer and essayist Ray Bradbury.

Host: Eleanor Wachtel A special program on African-American author Toni Morrison. She talks about her life, her writing, and her most recent novel Jazz. Before the interview Morrison reads from one of her earlier novels, Song of Solomon. Following the interview, she reads an excerpt from Jazz. (Both are readings are excerpts from Random House audiobooks.)

American monologist and writer Spalding Gray discusses his writing process. British biographer Diana Souhami talks about her biography of Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas.

American biographer Kenneth Silverman discusses his new book on the life of literary critic and renowned author of the American Gothic horror genre, Edgar Allen Poe. Pt. 2: Crime fiction writers Sara Paretsky and Liza Cody discuss writing women-led detective and mystery stories.

Part 3 of the series "West Coast Writers" - with Audrey Thomas. Her latest novel, Graven Images, is about memory, history, and mothers. Also, in honour of Mother's Day, a look at mothers and daughters in popular culture with sociologist and gender studies professor, Suzanna Walters.

American playwright Wallace Shawn on politics and playwriting. He reads from his monologue "The Fever" . British biographer Michael Holroyd on his third volume of the life of George Bernard Shaw, The Lure of Fantasy.

Eleanor Wachtel interviews Canadian author Carol Shields. Episode includes Shields reading from her book The Republic of Love.. Also - a Panel discussions on the life and death of American poet and novelist Sylvia Plath, with literary biographers Jacqueline Rose and Paul Alexander.