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Yiyun Li

Yiyun Li
Yiyun Li is the author of seven books, including Where Reasons End, which received the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award; the essay collection Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life; and the novels The Vagrants and Must I Go. She is the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, Guggenheim Fellowship, and Windham-Campbell Prize, among other honors. A contributing editor to A Public Space, she teaches at Princeton University.


“Auld Lang Syne” in July: Yiyun Li on the Solaces and Limits of Music

“Music, in its absolute right to exist, perhaps is not unlike mood, or landscape—external or internal.”
May 3, 2022  By Yiyun Li
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Yiyun Li on Taking Writing Lessons from War and Peace

“The line will always be crossed.”
September 24, 2021  By Yiyun Li
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Yiyun Li on the Brilliance of Bette Howland

"Howland wrote a book that I thought was impossible to write."
January 15, 2021  By Yiyun Li
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Yiyun Li Remembers Intizar Hussain

Storytelling and the Politics of Everyday Life
February 5, 2016  By Yiyun Li
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