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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.

Irish writer Colm Tóibín was this year's grand prize winner at the Blue Metropolis International Literary Festival in Montreal. His latest, The Testament of Mary, takes place twenty years after Jesus' death.

This week on Writers and Company, host Eleanor Wachtel talks with one of America's most brilliant writers, Joan Didion, a journalist, novelist and essayist whose career spans more than forty years. Her latest book is a heart-breaking memoir called The Year of Magical Thinking, and it has just won the National Book Award for Non-Fiction.

Eleanor speaks with English author Julian Barnes on stage at the Bluma Appel Salon in Toronto. The Booker prize-winning novelist, essayist and art critic talks about his latest book, The Noise of Time -- about beloved Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich.

James Runcie's latest novel, The Great Passion, imagines a year in the life of Johann Sebastian Bach, culminating with the writing and first performance of his St. Matthew Passion in 1727. Told through the eyes of a fictional, 13-year-old student, it explores the man behind the legendary composer: an ambitious working musician and father of eight, coping with grief and loss, through faith and music. Runcie is also the author of the popular Grantchester Mystery series. *Note: The audio for…

Today on Writers & Company - Eleanor Wachtel speaks with Helen Macdonald. English writer Helen Macdonald's book H is for Hawk is about nature in the human heart. It became the first memoir to win Britain's top non-fiction award, the Samuel Johnson Prize. It's a book, the judges said, unlike any other.