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Host Eleanor Wachtel talks with an American original, Nicholson Baker. He's known for his observations of the minutiae of life and for his fierce advocacy of library card catalogues and newspaper storage. As one critic put it, Nicholson Baker "doesn't just count the angels on the head of a pin, he does long division with the feathers in their wing tips." Baker's latest book is called A Box of Matches.

In her memoir, The Dragons, The Giant, The Women, Liberian American writer Wayétu Moore explores the impact of civil war on her birth country, her family, and in her own life.

Nobel Prize-winning author Kazuo Ishiguro joins Eleanor Wachtel to discuss his bestselling new novel, Klara and the Sun. It's an imaginative exploration of love, artificial intelligence and what it means to be human.

Award-winning American author Annie Proulx talks to Eleanor Wachtel onstage in Montréal about her Canadian connections, and how the natural world informs her writing - and her life.

Prize-winning author Yiyun Li talked to Eleanor Wachtel on stage in Toronto about her new novel, Where Reasons End, written in the months following the suicide of her 16-year-old son.

Jonathan Franzen is the first author in ten years to make the cover of Time magazine with the banner headline, Great American Novelist. Eleanor Wachtel spoke to him in 2001 about his bestseller, The Corrections. Now he has a new blockbuster, Freedom, which tracks the lives of an unconventional family through a time of crisis. Franzen speaks candidly with Eleanor Wachtel about the experiences that have fueled his current fiction: his "misfit" adolescent years and occasional struggle with…

Eleanor Wachtel speaks with American poet and novelist Ben Lerner. His recent book, Leaving the Atocha Station is being compared to the work of Fernando Pessoa and Albert Camus. It's the 33-year-old poet's first novel, and was named one of the best books of the year by many publications, including The New Yorker, The Guardian, and The New Statesman.

American novelist and short story writer Marisa Silver was inspired by an iconic 1936 image of a migrant mother. She re-imagines the lives of the photographer and her subject in her new novel, Mary Coin.

This week on Writers & Company, part 2 of a four-part series called "The New Face of France." Eleanor Wachtel talks with Jean-Christophe Rufin. He is a best-selling novelist and two-time winner of the Prix Goncourt. He's also a doctor and a longtime activist with the Nobel Prize-winning Doctors Without Borders.

From Britain via Iraq and Afghanistan, novelist and journalist James Meek this week on Writers & Company. Host Eleanor Wachtel talks with the author of the international bestseller, The People's Act of Love. He now has a new novel called, We Are Now Beginning Our Descent.

Eleanor interviews American novelist, essayist, and critic, William Gass. One of America's most distinguished senior men of letters. His newest novel - The Tunnel - is a provocative meditation on evil, history, and the sheer exuberance of language.