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Jonathan Lethem o growing up in Brooklyn N.Y., and his novel The Fortress of Solitude
This week on Writers and Company, host Eleanor Wachtel talks with award-winning American novelist Jonathan Lethem. Described as the "greatest living writer about New York," Lethem transcends genre, and mixes high and low, in his work - most recently, Motherless Brooklyn and The Fortress of Solitude.
Jane Smiley on Charles Dickens
A look at the life of Charles Dickens, the first celebrity novelist, through the eyes of the Pulitzer Prize-winning American writer Jane Smiley.
Cynthia Ozick on Heir to the Glimmering World
A conversation with American writer Cynthia Ozick this week on Writers & Company. A woman who infuses her fiction and her essays with intellectual passion and brilliance, Ozick talks with Eleanor Wachtel about her latest novel, Heir to the Glimmering World.
Novelist Anuradha Roy explores beauty, violence and power in modern India
Anuradha Roy's elegant, provocative fiction looks at life in India from unusual angles. Eleanor spoke to Roy about her latest book, Sleeping on Jupiter, which won the DSC South Asia Prize for Fiction.
Malaysian author Tash Aw on Map of the Invisible World
This week, from Malaysia and London, Tash Aw. His first novel, The Harmony Silk Factory looked back at Malaysia during the Second World War. His new book, Map of the Invisible World, evokes Indonesia on the brink of the "Year of Living Dangerously." Map of the Invisible World is published by McClelland & Stewart.
Caryl Phillips on The Lost Child
This week, Caryl Phillips talks with Eleanor about his new novel, The Lost Child. It examines the origins of Heathcliff, Emily Bronte's mysterious hero, intertwined with a modern story about a troubled single mother living in Yorkshire.