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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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2 months ago | 
businessandamerica.com | Yiyun Li
The truth is that however I choose to express myself will not live up to the weight of these facts: Vincent died, and then James died. Source link
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2 months ago | 
newyorker.com | Yiyun Li
“There is no good way to say this”—when the police arrive, they inevitably preface the bad news with that sentence, as though their presence is not ominous enough. The first time I heard the line, I already knew what was about to be conveyed. Nevertheless, I paid attention to how the news was delivered: the detective insisted that I take a seat first. I sat down at the dinner table, and he moved another chair to an appropriate distance and sat down himself.
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Mar 9, 2025 | 
newyorker.com | Yiyun Li
Lilian was the only patient that morning. This was a change from the crowded waiting room she was used to in the days before Dr. Fenton began to charge an annual fee. “Concierge medicine” sounded like “bespoke chocolates” and would not have been Lilian’s natural inclination, and yet she stayed with the clinic. Looking for a new physician would require making calls, meeting strangers, and filling out medical-history forms, and that, even for a healthy fifty-one-year-old, could be complicated.
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Mar 8, 2025 | 
mdpi.com | Ningyu Liu |Jianxin Cao |Mingying Yang |Yiyun Li
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Oct 17, 2024 | 
mdpi.com | Yonglin Mu |Chunhui Zhang |Yiyun Li |Weilong Zhou
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