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The New Yorker: Fiction

The New Yorker: Fiction

Yiyun Li Reads William Trevor

May 1, 2025 · 1h 13m

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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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices