Muse magazine notes:

Seriously, whoever the director of programming is at the 92nd Street Y needs to get out of our brain—either that, or the laws of attraction must be true because we just received a press release about our dream reading. This past summer, we read Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s “Half of a Yellow Sun” and “Purple Hibiscus” and Dave Eggers’ “What is the What” back to back (it also sparked our current obsession with contemporary fiction about Africa; we’re preparing to read Chris Abani’s “Graceland") and thought to ourselves, “these two should do a reading together.” Lo and behold, the two will be reading excerpts from their novels on Monday, January 7 at 8pm. Valentino Achak Deng, the Sudanese Lost Boy whom Eggers based his latest book on, will also be there. Get the deets here.

The Morning News has an insightful interview with Adichie, whose first name means “my God will not fall down,” and you can read a short-story version of “Half of a Yellow Sun” here. The story grew into a novel for which she won an Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction.

[Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Dave Eggers: 01/07/08]