Quick link roundup

This year's National Book Award winner: Denis Johnson's Tree of Smoke. (Apparently the finalist reading was not without its fireworks.)

Walter Mosely is putting Easy Rawlins to rest.

Steven Pinker is interviewed at Powells.com.

Larry Doyle tells us exactly why the writers are striking. It's not about money, of course.

Also from the New Yorker, a cool poem by Franz Wright called "Visiting the Library in a Strange City."