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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.

The provocative British writer talks to Eleanor Wachtel about his new book, Inside Story, which reflects on the significant men in his life, including his father Kingsley, his mentor Saul Bellow, and his closest friend, writer and critic Christopher Hitchens.

Karl Ove Knausgård, the Norwegian author of the epic six-volume memoir Min Kamp (My Struggle), talks to Eleanor Wachtel about his new outlook on life and his new series, Årstid encyklopedien (The Seasons Quartet), which takes the form of a letter to his daughter.

From the Appalachian South and the mountains of Virginia, American author Lee Smith. Her latest novel, Guests on Earth, was inspired by Zelda Fitzgerald. And she has a new memoir, Dimestore, about the people and places that inspired her fiction.

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Host Eleanor Wachtel talks with Irish writer Nuala O'Faolain. The wonderfully funny and moving memoirist is the author of Are You Somebody?: The Accidental Memoir of a Dublin Woman and Almost There: The Onward Journey of a Dublin Woman.

This week on Writers and Company, host Eleanor Wachtel talks with one of America's most brilliant writers, Joan Didion, a journalist, novelist and essayist whose career spans more than forty years. Her latest book is a heart-breaking memoir called The Year of Magical Thinking, and it has just won the National Book Award for Non-Fiction.

This week on Writers & Company - from Ireland and around the world, the extraordinary, the intrepid woman on a bicycle, or with a pack animal, or on her own two feet - travel writer, Dervla Murphy. Her most recent books are Silverland: A Winter Journey Beyond the Urals and The Island that Dared: Journeys in Cuba.

The dynamic and versatile actor, writer and comedian, Stephen Fry. Dubbed "the patron saint of British intelligence," Fry is funny and dazzlingly honest. He's famous for his starring role in the movie about Oscar Wilde, for his enormously successful Jeeves and Wooster with his friend, Hugh Laurie, and for Blackadder with Rowan Atkinson. He writes about all this in his new memoir, The Fry Chronicles.

This week's episode is the 20th anniversary celebration of Writers & Company. It was recorded onstage in front of a sold-out house at the International Festival of Authors in Toronto. On this very special edition of Writers & Company, Eleanor Wachtel and special guests Margaret Drabble, Dionne Brand, Deborah Eisenberg, and Andrew O'Hagan reflect on reading, writing, highlights, and breakthroughs of the past twenty years.

From Alexandria and New York, Eleanor speaks with André Aciman. His novel, Harvard Square, is an autobiographical story about an unlikely friendship between two immigrants to America.

Amy Liptrot writes about extremes - from the rugged environment of Scotland's Orkney Islands, where she grew up, to her struggles with alcoholism while navigating London's raucous party scene. Her 2015 memoir, The Outrun, won praise and prizes for its vivid evocation of the natural world on Orkney, to which Liptrot returned after spending time in rehab. Her new book, The Instant, focuses on urban wildlife and the heartbreak of a failed romance during a year spent in Berlin.

One of Britain's foremost travel writers, Sara Wheeler has written bestselling books and biographies about the polar region and its famous expeditions, as well as the United States, Chile, Russia and Greece. Now, in Glowing Still: A Woman's Life on the Road, Wheeler turns the lens on herself, considering a life spent on the road and writing in what has historically been a male-dominated genre. Part memoir, part travelogue, Glowing Still spans seven continents and has been described as "funny…