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Eleanor Wachtel interviews Canadian author Carol Shields. Episode includes Shields reading from her book The Republic of Love.. Also - a Panel discussions on the life and death of American poet and novelist Sylvia Plath, with literary biographers Jacqueline Rose and Paul Alexander.

This week: a panel on the perils and pleasures of literary prizes. Eleanor talks with four literary prize winners, including England's Justin Cartwright, Ireland's Kevin Barry, Canada's Charlotte Gray, and American Meg Wolitzer.

INTERVIEW: Travel writer Jonathan Raban discusses literary travel writing and his own work. READING: Raban reads from Hunting Mister Heartbreak: a discovery of America (1991, Harper Collins) at the Vancouver Writer's Festival. INTERVIEW: Carol Shields discusses her personal reading habits and American editor and novelist Peter De Vries.

A tale of two novelists: one of Canada's most beloved writers, Carol Shields, takes on the life of one of the most popular female novelists of all time in her new biography, Jane Austen (2001, Viking)

Eleanor speaks with Canadian author Carol Shields about her new collection of short stories, Dressing Up for the Carnival. Then: a reading of Shields' short story "Soup du Jour" at the Toronto International Festival of Authors.

Last spring at the International Literary Festival in Victoria, Eleanor Wachtel hosted a panel inspired by Rosemary Sullivan's latest book, Labyrinth of Desire: Women, Passion, and Romantic Obsession. The panel - called "Love in the Afternoon" - included six writers who came together to talk about love in life and literature. Host Eleanor Wachtel talks about grappling with romance and writing with the English Booker Prize-winning writer Ian McEwan, Irish novelist Clare Boylan, Scottish…

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.

Part I: American science essayist Stephen Jay Gould talks about his latest collection, Bully for Brontosaurus; Part II: A special literary feature - Canadian fiction writer Carol Shields reads her story "Keys."

In this edition of Writers & Company, host Eleanor Wachtel speaks with two Canadian Authors whose books have been shortlisted for the prestigious Booker Prize. Part I: Canadian author Carol Shields talks about her latest novel, The Stone Diaries. After the interview she reads an excerpt from the book. Part II: Canadian author, journalist and academic Michael Ignatieff is interviewed from London, England. He talks about his novel Scar Tissue, and reads an excerpt from the book.

Part I: Canadian biographer Phyllis Grosskurth turns the spotlight on her own life in her new memoir, Elusive Subject. Part II: Carol Shields on writing for the stage and radio.

Canadian writer Carol Shields has a new novel, her first since The Stone Diaries. Shields now gives us a lighter view than the ultimately dark aspect of Daisy's life in Stone Diaries in her new book, Larry's Party.