Yiyun Li: Kinder than Solitude

Bookworm

KCRW

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4.5 • 606 Ratings

🗓️ 27 March 2014

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Originally from Beijing, Yiyun Li thought she would be a scientist. Writing in her non-native English, she addresses the emotional brutality of our time.

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1:03.9	Today I'm very happy to have as my guest, Ion Lee.
1:08.0	She is the author most recently of her second novel, Kinder Than Solitude.
1:13.6	Her other books include Gold Boy Emerald Girl, the novel The Vagrants.
1:19.1	She's extraordinary. She came to America when she was 23 to study medicine?
1:26.2	Immunology.
1:27.1	Yes. And discovered insteadunology. Yes.
1:28.2	And discovered instead...
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