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Jamil Jan Kochai Reads Yiyun Li

The New Yorker: Fiction

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Oral Storytelling - A Thousand One Nights Feel

Lily is touching the narrator's head. She's touching her hair. They're both looking the same way, but seeing each other. There's something very intimate about that. And at the same time, there's a story being formed in words which are not physical. So it becomes this really, really intriguing and I think, you know, multi-layered space for a story because you have all these levels working at the Same Time.

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