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Today on Writers & Company, Eleanor Wachtel talks with English writer Jim Crace. His unusual, award-winning novels have been translated into 14 languages. His latest book, Signals of Distress, is an elegant evocation of a remote corner of coastal England in the 1830s.

Eleanor Wachtel interviews two unusual Authors. First, English-German writer W.G. Sebald about his requiem for a generation, The Emigrants.. Also, an interview with American poet, critic, and undertaker, Thomas Lynch. Lynch reads from his book The Undertaking: Life Studies from the Dismal Trade.

Part I: American independent filmmaker and writer John Sayles discusses his novel about Miami's Cuban community, Los Gusanos, and reads from Los Gusanos at Toronto's Harbourfront; Part II: Biographer Hilary Spurling discusses her study of Paul Scott, author of The Raj Quartet.

Acclaimed Brazilian author Julián Fuks spoke to Eleanor Wachtel about his award-winning novel Resistance, which explores the experience of his family who were forced to flee Argentina's dictatorship.