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For Writers & Company's final original episode, Eleanor Wachtel is interviewed on-stage by Matt Galloway, host of CBC Radio's The Current. She then speaks with American Authors Brandon Taylor (The Late Americans, 2023, Riverhead Books) and Gary Shteyngart (Our Country Friends, 2021, Random House), and receives surprise greetings from the likes of Salman Rushdie, Jonathan Franzen, Aleksandar Hemon, and Zadie Smith.

Our 25th season begins with American writer Jonathan Franzen. Dubbed "The Great American Novelist," he created a stir some years ago with his novel The Corrections. His latest blockbuster is called Purity.

This week, Jonathan Franzen — the author who's been dubbed "the great American novelist." He joins Eleanor Wachtel to talk about his new blockbuster, Crossroads, which revolves around a family in crisis in 1970s Illinois. *Note: The audio for this episode was recorded during the Covid-19 lockdown and contains occasional low-level equipment-related distortion.

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 talks with American author Jonathan Franzen about families, fashions, the future of American fiction, and his new novel - The Corrections. It's one of the biggest novels - in every respect - of the fall season.