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Today on Writers & Company, Eleanor talks with the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Natasha Trethewey. The two-time U.S. Poet Laureate has a haunting new memoir, Memorial Drive, which deals with race, her Southern childhood, and the trauma of her mother's murder. CONTENT WARNING: This episode contains frank discussion of some of the painful experiences in Natasha's account, including physical and psychological violence.

This week on Writers & Company, Eleanor Wachtel talks with Dutch writer Ian Buruma - one of the finest literary journalists in the world. He's a roving intellect and subtle social commentator whose eclectic titles include: Inventing Japan, The China Lover, and Murder in Amsterdam: Liberal Europe, Islam and the Limits of Tolerance.

The Telegraph says of Barracuda that it "... may tell and old, old story, but it has rarely been told in a better way." Eleanor speaks with Australian novelist Christos Tsiolkas about his new novel.