Where Reasons End, which received the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award; the essay collection
Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life; and the novels
The Vagrants and
Must I Go. She is the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, Guggenheim Fellowship, and Windham-Campbell Prize, among other honors. A contributing editor to A Public Space, she teaches at Princeton University.
Praise
The brilliant novelist Yiyun Li has started a “War and Peace” book club online at A Public Space. You read twelve pages a day of “War and Peace” in a whole community of readers. And the next thing you know, you have read “War and Peace,” which is terrific.
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How to Write a Novel, According to 10 Really Good Novelists
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A long, long time ago, back in the first lockdown, you probably told yourself that now – right this moment, in the middle of a pandemic – was the perfect time to conceive, plot, write, revise, rewrite, complete and publish a novel which completely transformed what we thought it was possible to express in the English language.
It wasn t. Obviously it wasn t. You know that now. But even if it turned out a year-long period of isolation and anxiety actually wasn t much good for your inner David Foster Wallace, there s no bad time to start writing. It doesn t really matter if it goes anywhere. Just write something and see where you go.
Here are a half-dozen recommended paperbacks, if your bedside table is currently bare.
âThe Magical Language of Othersâ by E.J. Koh
Seattle author Kohâs intergenerational memoir, a recent winner of a Pacific Northwest Book Award from the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association, was inspired by letters written to Koh in Korean by her mother, who left her children behind in California in order to return to South Korea for work.
A reviewer for the San Francisco Chronicle described the book as âa wonder: a challenging and deep meditation on how wounds of the past and present inform our relationship with those outside of us, which is to say, everyone.âÂ
The days are getting longer, right? That means more time for reading, at least by my definition. Here are a half-dozen recommended paperback, if your bedside table is currently bare.