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Podcast: Otherppl with Brad Listi
Episode: REPLAY: Yiyun Li on Grief, Attention, Deep Reading, and the Writing Life
Description: Today on the program, a trip into the archive and a return to Episode 863, my conversation with Yiyun Li from 2023.
Yiyun Li is the author of several works of fiction—Wednesday’s Child; The Book of Goose; Must I Go; Where Reasons End; Kinder Than Solitude; Gold Boy, Emerald Girl; The Vagrants; and A Thousand Years of Good Prayers—and the memoirs Things in Nature Merely Grow and Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life. She is the recipient of many awards, including a PEN/Faulkner Award, a PEN/Malamud Award, a PEN/Hemingway Awa...