Samantha Hunt Reads Yiyun Li

The New Yorker: Fiction

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🗓️ 1 December 2020

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Samantha Hunt joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “A Sheltered Woman,” by Yiyun Li, which appeared in a 2014 issue of the magazine. Hunt’s four books of fiction include the story collection “The Dark Dark,” which was published in 2017, and “The Seas,” for which she won the National Book Foundations’s 5 Under 35 Award in 2006.

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0:00.0	This is the New Yorker Fiction Podcast from the New Yorker magazine.
0:09.0	I'm Deb Retriceman, Fiction Editor at The New Yorker.
0:12.3	Each month we invite a writer to choose a story from the magazine's archives to read
0:15.8	and discuss.
0:16.8	This month, we're going to hear a sheltered woman by Yi Yun Li, which was published in
0:21.7	the New Yorker in March of 2014.
0:24.0	I don't like this soup, said the mother, who surely had a Chinese name, but had asked
0:30.1	Auntie Mei to call her Chanel.
0:33.4	Auntie Mei, however, called every mother, baby's maw, and every infant, baby.
0:40.1	The story was chosen by Samantha Hunt, whose four books of fiction include the story collection,
0:45.2	The Dark Dark, which was published in 2017.
0:49.0	Hi Samantha.
0:50.0	Hi Debra.
0:51.0	Thanks for having me.
0:53.2	How did Yi Yun Li's work first come into your life?
0:57.2	That's a great question.
1:00.1	I have to say I think it was originally from the New Yorker.
1:04.6	It wasn't this story.
1:05.6	This wasn't the first Yi Yun story I encountered.
1:09.0	Maybe it was extra.
1:12.7	This one though, a sheltered woman has always stayed with me so deeply.
1:18.2	There's no easy way to forget it.
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