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American novelist and short story writer Catherine Lacey talks to Eleanor Wachtel about growing up in Mississippi and her new novel, Pew, about a mysterious stranger who makes a big impact on a small town in the American South.

This week on Writers and Company, host Eleanor Wachtel talks with Scottish author Ali Smith. Ali Smith's newest novel, The Accidental, was short-listed for the Booker this year. The novel is a mystery, with plenty of good twists and turns, and looks at 'accident' as 'coincidence,' and at how we make stories out of the accidents in our lives.