The New Yorker: Fiction

Jamil Jan Kochai Reads Yiyun Li

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Nov 1, 2022
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1
Introduction
00:00 • 2min
2
What's the Defining Characteristic of Yiyun Li's Writing?
01:49 • 2min
3
All Will Be Well, by E and Lee by Jamil Jan Kochai
03:42 • 6min
4
I Was a Man of Wisdom, Not a Wall That Is About to Topple
09:29 • 2min
5
What Is Life?
11:48 • 5min
6
I Don't Hold It Against You That He Didn't
16:35 • 2min
7
I Don't Want to Call My Former Lover
18:56 • 2min
8
Do You Want to Talk to Mother?
21:17 • 5min
9
The Photo That Lily Showed Me, What Can I Say?
25:49 • 4min
10
The Weekly Podcast for the Music Obsessed
30:12 • 2min
11
Book Review - Lily and Lily
31:56 • 2min
12
A Strange Tactic for a Writer
33:40 • 2min
13
How Crucial Is It to the Story That It's Being Written in the Retrospective?
35:35 • 2min
14
How Does the Story of the Son and His Death Interweave?
37:38 • 2min
15
The Death of the Son
39:40 • 2min
16
Are You Telling the Truth or Are You Embellishing for Dramatic Effect?
41:20 • 2min
17
Oral Storytelling - A Thousand One Nights Feel
43:37 • 3min
18
The Dead by James Joyce
46:20 • 3min
19
The Death of the Sun by James Joyce
49:48 • 2min
20
Is There a Relationship Between Lily and Tuan?
51:58 • 3min
21
Is There a Story She Can't Tell?
54:48 • 4min
22
Do You Think Lily's Story Is True?
58:27 • 4min