Yiyun Li

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Bookwaves/Artwaves – July 6, 2023: David Grann – Yiyun Li

Bookwaves/Artwaves – July 6, 2023: David Grann – Yiyun Li

Bookwaves/Artwaves is produced and hosted by Richard Wolinsky. Links to assorted local theater & book venues Bookw... Read more

6 Jul 2023

59mins

Yiyun Li, “The Vagrants,” 2009

Yiyun Li, “The Vagrants,” 2009

Yiyun Li discussing her first novel, “The Vagrants,” in conversation with host Richard Wolinsky, recorded in the KPFA st... Read more

2 Jul 2023

59mins

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Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life by Yiyun Li - Book Review by SoundsPress.com

Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life by Yiyun Li - Book Review by SoundsPress.com

LISTEN MORE HERE Startlingly original and shining with quiet wisdom, this is a luminous account of a life lived with boo... Read more

24 May 2023

2mins

Yiyun Li’s new novel, The Book of Goose, is a beguiling tale of childhood imagination, hunger and memory

Yiyun Li’s new novel, The Book of Goose, is a beguiling tale of childhood imagination, hunger and memory

Growing up in Communist China, Yiyun Li devoured any books she could find. But she never imagined that, on moving to the... Read more

26 Feb 2023

1hr 1min

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“I think the best writers always know the characters more than the characters know themselves,“ she says. The author of ... Read more

25 Feb 2023

27mins

Yiyun Li Reads “Wednesday’s Child”

Yiyun Li Reads “Wednesday’s Child”

Yiyun Li reads her story “Wednesday’s Child,” which appeared in the January 23, 2023, issue of the magazine. Li is the a... Read more

16 Jan 2023

51mins

Literary Friction - Deception with Yiyun Li

Literary Friction - Deception with Yiyun Li

When it comes to fiction, why are people so obsessed with authenticity and so appalled by literary deception? Does it ma... Read more

11 Nov 2022

1hr 1min

Jamil Jan Kochai Reads Yiyun Li

Jamil Jan Kochai Reads Yiyun Li

Jamil Jan Kochai joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “All Will Be Well,” by Yiyun Li, which was published in The ... Read more

1 Nov 2022

1hr

Little Atoms 783 - Yiyun Li's The Book of Goose

Little Atoms 783 - Yiyun Li's The Book of Goose

Yiyun Li talks to Neil about her latest novel The Book of Goose. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more informa... Read more

24 Oct 2022

30mins

The Sunday Read: ‘How Yiyun Li Became a Beacon for Readers in Mourning’

The Sunday Read: ‘How Yiyun Li Became a Beacon for Readers in Mourning’

Yiyun Li has garnered legions of fans with her unsparing prose, writing extensively about her own struggles with depress... Read more

23 Oct 2022

32mins

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