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Writers & Company launches a special four-part series, "Rewriting History: Scotland's New Century." Eleanor Wachtel visits Scotland to talk with some of the country's most interesting and adventurous writers about their lives and work. In lively and intimate conversations, she goes beyond the sentimental stereotypes of tartans and bagpipes to get an insightful picture of Scotland today, a region whose citizens have a new sense of themselves. This week: Change is unsettling and exciting…

This week on Writers & Company - Part 2 of the special series "Rewriting History: Scotland's New Century." It's host Eleanor Wachtel in conversation with some of the country's most interesting and adventurous writers, going beyond the sentimentality of tartans and bagpipes for an up-to-date picture of a changing and dynamic society. This week, from Glasgow, William McIlvanney, the originator of the "tartan noir" crime fiction. His honest, autobiographical novels draw on his background as…

Eleanor Wachtel speaks with the award-winning Scottish poet and essayist, Kathleen Jamie. Her latest book, Findings, is, as one critic put it, "as close as you can get to a conversation with the natural world."