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Interview Details
Title & Link
An Interview with Yiyun Li — The Penn Review
Publish Date
May 12, 2018
Interviewees
Yiyun Li
Interviewers
Mia Funk
Publisher
The Penn Review
Topics
character development
homelands
influences
literature
teaching
writing style
People Mentioned
Elisabeth Bowen
Jim Thompson
Marilynne Robinson
Michel Faber
Patricia Highsmith
Tolstoy
Tom Ripley
Turgenev
William Trevor
Works Mentioned
A Thousand Years of Good Prayers
Gold Boy, Emerald Girl
Kinder Than Solitude
Madame Bovary
Moby Dick
The Bible
The Grifters
The Killer Inside Me
The Vagrants
War and Peace
Places Mentioned
America
China
Festival des Écrivains du Monde
Iowa Writers' Workshop
Paris
University of Iowa
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