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Jamil Jan Kochai Reads Yiyun Li

The New Yorker: Fiction

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What's the Defining Characteristic of Yiyun Li's Writing?

"I was absolutely blown away at that time. I was reading a good deal of Faulkner and Barry Hannah and Cormac McCarthy," she says. "There's always these very complicated, layered relationships that take a long time to read after reading the sort of unpack"

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