Yiyun Li Reads William Trevor

May 1, 2025, 10:00 AM1 hr 13 min

Yiyun Li joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1995/10/30/the-piano-tuners-wives">The Piano Tuner’s Wives</a>,” by William Trevor, which was published in The New Yorker in 1995. Li has published eight books of fiction, including the novels “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Must-Go-Novel-Yiyun-Li/dp/0399589139">Must I Go</a>” and “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Book-Goose-Novel-Yiyun-Li/dp/1250872413">Book of Goose</a>,” a winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, and the story collection “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Wednesdays-Child-Stories-Yiyun-Li/dp/1250338387">Wednesday’s Child</a>,” which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2024. A new nonfiction work, “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Things-Nature-Merely-Grow-Yiyun/dp/0374617317">Things in Nature Merely Grow</a>,” will be published this month.

Yiyun Li joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “The Piano Tuner’s Wives,” by William Trevor, which was published in The New Yorker in 1995. Li has published eight books of fiction, including the novels “Must I Go” and “Book of Goose,” a winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, and the story collection “Wednesday’s Child,” which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2024. A new nonfiction work, “Things in Nature Merely Grow,” will be published this month.

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