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Writers & Company host Eleanor Wachtel in an intimate conversation with Canadian writer Carol Shields. In 1993, Carol Shields became an "overnight success"... almost 20 years after the publication of her first novel. Her novel The Stone Diaries won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Governor-General's Award for Literature. Here, she talks about her upcoming novel, Unless.

This week on Writers and Company, Part Two of Eleanor Wachtel's conversation with one of England's hottest and most controversial writers, Martin Amis. In this episode, Amis talks about the family: new daughters, a long-lost daughter, family tragedy, but especially his father, novelist and poet Kingsley Amis. Episode includes part of an interview that Eleanor did with Kingsley Amis in 1992, as well as a recording of Kingsley reading from his Collected Poems: 1944-1979.