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Yiyun Li

Contributing Editor at A Public Space Magazine

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Articles

  • 1 week ago | bookreporter.com | Yiyun Li

    As more and more people are discussing their mental health openly, it is hard to have one memoir top another. Everyone’s issues are singular, personal to the point where readers sometimes can feel shy or uncomfortable knowing these things. Every once in a while, though, a Mary Karr, a Maggie Nelson or even a Tatum O’Neal presents a visceral and stinging account of a difficult life.

  • 1 week ago | theguardian.com | Yiyun Li |Robert MacFarlane |Robert Macfarlane

    Yiyun Li, authorThis past semester I taught The Voyage Out – Virginia Woolf’s first novel, which is less read and talked about than her other books – to my undergraduates. One of the most interesting things about it is that Richard and Clarissa Dalloway appear as minor characters at the beginning. In each of my rereadings (and for my students who read the novel for the first time), when the Dalloways leave, it feels as though the air pressure of the novel drops for a moment.

  • 2 weeks ago | nytimes.com | Yiyun Li

    In "Things in Nature Merely Grow," the novelist Yiyun Li endures the aftermath of unthinkable loss. When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission.

  • 1 month ago | oprahdaily.com | Yiyun Li

    1For Mothers Who Have Lost ChildrenThings in Nature Merely Grow, by Yiyun LiNow 10% OffMothers who outlive their children often inhabit a world of hushed silences and euphemisms. Written in the aftermath of losing both of her teenage children to suicide, Li’s memoir stomps through a territory we are told to tiptoe in and fills a void of language with booming insight.

  • 2 months ago | mailchi.mp | Yiyun Li |Ronan Farrow |Kerry Howley |Philip Holsinger

    And now, The SLR is all Michael's! More than two decades ago, when I was a young reporter interested in “narrative storytelling,” I bought a copy of Robert McKee’s, “Story: Style, Structure, and the Principles of Screenwriting.” The book went on to become an industry bible but also an object of contempt, blamed for movie making sapped of authenticity and originality.

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