I have known of Leonard Cohen since I was twelve. My babysitter used to play the album Songs of Leonard Cohen on our hi-fi, over and over again. I didn’t understand the songs, but I sang along. I didn...

On February 14, 1989, Salman Rushdie became the most famous writer on earth. That was when the Ayatollah Khomeini of Iran pronounced a fatwa, sentencing to death Rushdie and all involved in the…

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This conversation was part of a series called The Writer, The Work, hosted by the PEN American Center. It took place in New York City on July 10, 1997, when the only book of W. G. Sebald’s in English…

A version of this conversation between Sigrid Nunez and Eleanor Wachtel was broadcast on Writers & Company on CBC Radio One in 2021, produced by Sandra Rabinovitch.