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Podcast: Life Examined
Episode: Distilling life on the page: The beauty of storytelling with Yiyun Li
Description: Yiyun Li, writer and author most recently of a collection of short stories Wednesday’s Child: Stories, talks about the beauty of storytelling and how she uses stories to explore the relationship between parents and their children — including mothers, like her, who suffer the loss of a child: “That's one thing that literature does well, is to examine losses in life,” she says. In the 20 years since Li arrived in the US from China, Li has become a prolific writer, publishing five novels, three short story collections, and a memoir. She’s also currently director of Princeton University’s creative writ...