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Bryan Washington Reads Yiyun Li

Bryan Washington joins Deborah Treisman to read “A Small Flame,” by Yiyun Li, which was published in The New Yorker in 2017. Washington, a winner of the New York Public Library’s Young Lions Fiction Award, is the author of the story collection “Lot” and the novels “Memorial,” “Family Meal,” and “Palaver,” which was a finalist for the National Book Award in 2025. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

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  Miriam Toews Reads Raymond Carver

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  Adam Levin Reads David Foster Wallace

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  Karen Russell Reads Louise Erdrich

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  Victor Lodato Reads Denis Johnson

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  Lauren Groff Reads Elizabeth Hardwick

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  Yiyun Li Reads William Trevor

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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