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Yiyun Li Reads William Trevor

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 about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

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  Edwidge Danticat Reads Zadie Smith

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  David Wright Faladé Reads Madeleine Thien

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  Paul Theroux Reads V. S. Pritchett

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  Anne Enright Reads John McGahern

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  Jennifer Egan Reads Margaret Atwood

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  Ayşegül Savaş Reads Tessa Hadley

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  Aleksandar Hemon Reads ZZ Packer

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  Rebecca Makkai Reads Jhumpa Lahiri

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  Louise Erdrich Reads Karen Russell

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  David Sedaris Reads George Saunders

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  Nathan Englander Reads Chris Adrian

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  André Alexis Reads Alice Munro

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  Rachel Cusk Reads Marguerite Duras

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  David Bezmozgis Reads Sarah Shun-lien Bynum

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  Greg Jackson Reads Jennifer Egan