Wachtel, Eleanor

Geoff Dyer - one of Britain's wittiest and most audacious Authors - on his newest novel, Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi
Jane Campion talks about her newest film, Bright Star, about the poet John Keats
One of Ireland's classic writers, Edna O'Brien, talks about her Country Girls trilogy, her latest novel about mothers and daughters, and a new portrait of the Romantic poet, Lord Byron
Yiyun Li on her novel The Vagrants
Aravind Adiga on his newest novel The White Tiger
Author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, winner of a MacArthur 'Genius Grant', on her new book of short stories The Thing Around Your Neck
"Dreaming Australia: Changing Visions of a Country," Pt. 1, with Alexis Wright
Biographer Ann Wroe on the life and work of poet Percy Bysshe Shelley
Irish poet Paul Durcan on his new collection, The Laughter of Mothers
Cristina García on writing about the Cuban-American experience
Diana Athill on her memoir Somewhere Towards the End
An interview with comic book artist and writer, Lynda Barry
Catching up with celebrated author Salman Rushdie
Malcolm Gladwell on his newest book, Outliers
Dervla Murphy discusses her life as a worldwide traveler
English movie makers: interviews with director Mike Leigh and actor Michael Caine
Irish author Sebastian Barry on his novel The Secret Scripture
Literary citic James Wood on his new book, How Fiction Works
Donald Antrim on his searing memoir, The Afterlife
A special episode about Beijing, including interviews with Lijia Zhang and Xi Chuan
James Kugel on How to Read the Bible : A Guide to Scripture, Then and Now
ʻAlāʼ Al-Aswānī on his new novel The Yacoubian Building
Australian author Clive James on Cultural Amnesia
Writer Janet malcolm on Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas
An interview with Irish playwright Conor McPherson, and an excerpt from an interview with screenwriter and playwright Christopher Hampton