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Eleanor Wachtel interviews one of Ireland's finest Authors, Jennifer Johnston. She writes about familial relationships and unexpected friendships, set against the violence of Ireland.

Eleanor Wachtel speaks with one of Britain's most popular novelists, Margaret Drabble. Five years after her trilogy chronicling Thatcher's England, Drabble has a new, playful novel called the The Witch of Exmoor.

This week on Writers and Company, host Eleanor Wachtel speaks with British author Tessa Hadley. She's had almost as many short stories published in the New Yorker in the last ten years as her hero, Alice Munro. Her first novel, Accidents in the Home, was described by England's Guardian newspaper as fantastically subtle, absorbing and delightful. Now Tessa Hadley has written a novel called The London Train.

Eleanor Wachtel speaks with American author Anne Tyler. In a rare interview, the much-loved chronicler of families talks about her life, her work, and her new novel - A Spool of Blue Thread.

Nigerian writer Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀ made a stunning debut in 2017 with her acclaimed first novel, Stay With Me. Focusing on a young couple's struggles with infertility and cultural tradition, the novel won the Prix Les Afriques, was shortlisted for the Baileys Prize for Women's Fiction and named a best book of the year by the Guardian and Wall Street Journal. Her new novel, A Spell of Good Things, examines themes of power, politics and poverty in modern-day Nigeria, interweaving the stories of…

In his fifth novel, award-winning writer John Wray explores identity, rebellion and radicalism through the eyes of a teenage woman. Wray talks to Eleanor Wachtel about the 'pure and dangerous' age of adolescence.

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.

"Aftershock: Chile in Transition" Pt. 5. Our Chilean series concludes with two irreverent voices: novelist and critic Alberto Fuguet and the remarkable young director of the movie The Maid - Sebastian Silva.

This week on Writers & Company, an interview recorded onstage at a special PEN benefit at the International Festival of Authors in Toronto. American writer Richard Ford talks about his ground-breaking Frank Bascombe trilogy. Also, a preview of his next novel - set in southern Saskatchewan - called Canada.

Today on Writers & Company - Eleanor Wachtel speaks with Irish poet, playwright, and novelist, Dermot Healy. Unconventional and original, Healy puts us right inside the world of his authentic characters. His latest novel is called Long Time, No See.

Irish writer Roddy Doyle loves to talk - and his characters do too, in their own lively, expletive-ridden way. Doyle's new novel The Guts brings back Jimmy Rabbitte from the Barrytown Trilogy. There's life in the old boy yet.

Jonathan Franzen says of German-Austrian novelist Daniel Kehlmann, "[He] has become the go-to guy in Central Europe for engagement with the weirdness of the postmodern world we inhabit." Kehlmann talks to Eleanor Wachtel about his novels 'F' and Measuring the World.