Lit up

More literary stuff:

An interview with thriller writer Karin Slaughter in Time

50,000 Euros to Yiyun Li for her book A Thousand Years of Good Prayers. I'm going to blog about that three more times and by then I finally will have remembered the title. Li reads tomorrow at A Clean Well Lighted Place in San Francisco and Thursday at Powell's in Portland.

The NYT book section has made Joan Didion their latest featured author, with a whole page full of free reviews of the author's books. The New York Review has a page of essays by Didion, here's a 1996 interview on Salon, and the Village Voice also has a review of Didion's new book.