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Biographer, poet and editor Richard Greene talks to Eleanor Wachtel about his new book and the remarkable life and times of a master storyteller - Graham Greene.

INTERVIEW and READING: American writer Andre Dubus discusses the themes of masculine identity and physical disability in his collection of personal essays, Broken Vessels. Dubus reads from his essay "Husbands.". INTERVIEW: American historian Simon Schama discusses his fact-based novel Dead Certainties (Unwarranted Speculations).

From her painful relationship with her mother, to her sexual affair with her father, Kathryn Harrison's memoirs explore her troubled past with remarkable honesty and insight. Now her new book, On Sunset, tells the story of the unusual, well-travelled grandparents who raised her.

Eleanor Wachtel speaks with the Dutch novelist, poet, and travel writer Cees Nooteboom. Brooding, reflective, and illuminating, his latest book is a novel called All Souls' Day. And from South Africa, a preview of the award-winning J.M. Coetzee's new book, Youth.

Part I: Canadian novelist Ann-Marie Macdonald captures the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best First Book with Fall On Your Knees. Part II: American critic Roger Shattuck talks about his new book, Forbidden Knowledge: From Prometheus to Pornography, Are There Things We should Not Know?

Today on Writers & Company - an interview with Dutch novelist, poet, and travel writer Cees Nooteboom. He's been compared to Calvino, Borges, and Nabokov, but Nooteboom is a surprising and unique talent all his own. They discuss his book Roads to Santiago: Detours and Riddles in the Lands and History of Spain.

Part I: John McGahern, a classic storyteller from Ireland, whose last novel, Amongst Women, won the Irish Fiction Prize and was shortlisted for a Booker. Part II: Eleanor talks with a surprising young writer from Dublin, Anne Enright.