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Acclaimed English writer, Zadie Smith. The author of White Teeth and On Beauty has a new novel, NW, set in her home turf in London. Eleanor Wachtel spoke with Zadie Smith onstage in front of a sold-out audience at Harbourfront in Toronto.

This week on Writers and Company, host Eleanor Wachtel talks with the winner of this year's Man Booker Prize, Kiran Desai, about her powerful and ambitious new novel, The Inheritance of Loss.

Eleanor Wachtel speaks to literature's "bad girl," American writer Mary Gaitskill. In a book of essays, Gaitskill explores her unexpected bond with three inner-city children, her complicated relationship with her dying father, and the profound grief she experienced when her beloved kitten went missing.