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The Book Yiyun Li Recommends Most
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- The stunning book, for which Li won this year’s Pulitzer Prize for Memoir or Autobiography, was first excerpted in The New Yorker.
- Our conversation has been edited and condensed.
- What is the book you might, while writing, want open to any given page?
The stunning book, for which Li won this year’s Pulitzer Prize for Memoir or Autobiography, was first excerpted in The New Yorker. “In this life of mine,” Li writes, “which makes some fiction feel pale and feeble, there are other facts that I need to establish.” Li is also the author of several works of fiction, including the beautiful novel “The Book of Goose,” about a fiercely close friendship between two girls in France. I recently asked her about her reading habits.
Our conversation has been edited and condensed.
What is the book you might, while writing, want open to any given page?
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