Yiyun Li on the Master, Colm Tóibín
From Her Speech at The National Arts Club
July 17, 2024
By Yiyun Li
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Yiyun Li
Yiyun Li is the author of several works of fiction—Must I Go, Where Reasons End, Kinder Than Solitude, A Thousand Years of Good Prayers, The Vagrants, Gold Boy, Emerald Girl, and The Book of Goose—and the memoir Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life. She is the recipient of many awards, including the PEN/Malamud Award, the PEN/Hemingway Award, the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award, a MacArthur Fellowship, and a Windham-Campbell Prize. Her work has also appeared in The New Yorker, A Public Space, The Best American Short Stories, and The PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories, among other publications. She teaches at Princeton University.
“Tolstoy did not neglect to describe the outhouses”: Yiyun Li on the Material Concerns of Characters and Writers
The Author of Wednesday’s Child on Class, Money, Joy, and Luxury
“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.”
Yiyun Li on Taking Writing Lessons from War and Peace
“The line will always be crossed.”
Yiyun Li on the Brilliance of Bette Howland
"Howland wrote a book that I thought was impossible to write."
