Jamil Jan Kochai Reads Yiyun Li

The New Yorker: Fiction

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🗓️ 1 November 2022

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Jamil Jan Kochai joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “All Will Be Well,” by Yiyun Li, which was published in The New Yorker in 2019. Kochai is the author of two books, the novel “99 Nights in Logar,” which was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award, and the story collection “The Haunting of Hajji Hotak,” which is a finalist for the National Book Award. He is currently a Hodder Fellow at Princeton.

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0:00.0	This is the New Yorker Fiction Podcast from the New Yorker magazine.
0:08.3	I'm Deborah Treesman, Fiction Editor at the New Yorker.
0:11.7	Each month we invite a writer to choose a story from the magazine's archives to read and
0:15.4	discuss.
0:16.7	This month we're going to hear All Will Be Well by Yee-un Lee, which was published in
0:21.0	the New Yorker in March of 2019.
0:24.2	I had two small children then, both in preschool, but despite others warnings, I did not
0:29.9	feel susceptible to the various dangers that the world could dull out.
0:34.6	If the world had a mind to harm, it would do so to the prepared and the unprepared equally.
0:41.8	The story was chosen by Jemile Jan Kocha, the author of the Penn Hemingway Award finalist
0:46.9	99 Nights in Logar and the story collection, The Hunting of Haji Houtak, which was published
0:52.2	in July.
0:53.2	Hi Jemile.
0:54.2	Hi Deborah.
0:56.2	Welcome to the podcast.
0:58.2	It's so good to be here.
1:00.3	So you were a student of Yee-un Lee's at some point, right?
1:04.5	That's right.
1:05.5	I studied with her for two years at the Creative Writing Program at UC Davis.
1:10.8	And how was that?
1:12.1	It was a spectacular experience.
1:14.3	One of the reasons that I decided to apply for UC Davis was specifically to study with
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