Podcasts about good prayers

Yiyun Li (winner of a 2020 Windham-Campbell Prize for Fiction) chats with Prize Director Michael Kelleher about French Catholic monarchist author Georges Bernanos's Mouchette, the joys of reading together, and why inarticulate characters often live the deepest lives. Reading list:  Mouchette by Georges Bernanos, tr. by J.C. Whitehouse • War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy • Tolstoy Together • Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie Yiyun Li is the author of several works of fiction—Wednesday's Child, The Book of Goose, Must I Go, Where Reasons End, Kinder Than Solitude, A Thousand Years of Good Prayers, The Vagrants, and Gold Boy, Emerald Girl—and the memoir Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life as well as the book Tolstoy Together. She is the recipient of many awards, including the PEN/Malamud Award, the PEN/Hemingway Award, the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award, a MacArthur Fellowship, and a Windham-Campbell Prize. Her work has also appeared in The New Yorker, A Public Space, The Best American Short Stories, and The PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories, among other publications. She teaches at Princeton University. The Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast is a program of The Windham-Campbell Prizes, which are administered by Yale University Library's Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.

Yiyun Li is the author of the story collection Wednesday's Child, available from Farrar, Straus, and Giroux. Li is the author of several works of fiction--The Book of Goose, Must I Go, Where Reasons End, Kinder Than Solitude, A Thousand Years of Good Prayers, The Vagrants, and Gold Boy, Emerald Girl--and the memoir Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life. She is the recipient of many awards, including a PEN/Malamud Award, a PEN/Hemingway Award, a PEN/Jean Stein Book Award, a MacArthur Fellowship, and a Windham-Campbell Prize. Her work has also appeared in The New Yorker, A Public Space, The Best American Short Stories, and The PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories, among other publications. She teaches at Princeton University and lives in Princeton, New Jersey. *** Otherppl with Brad Listi is a weekly literary podcast featuring in-depth interviews with today's leading writers. Available where podcasts are available: Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, iHeart Radio, etc. Subscribe to Brad Listi's email newsletter. Support the show on Patreon Merch @otherppl Instagram  YouTube TikTok Email the show: letters [at] otherppl [dot] com The podcast is a proud affiliate partner of Bookshop, working to support local, independent bookstores. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome to The B-Side, from The Film Stage. Here we talk about movie directors! Not the movies that made them famous or kept them famous, but the ones that they made in between. Surprise! Here's a bonus episode in which we speak to the talented, prolific, and dynamic director Wayne Wang. Our main B-Side is Dim Sum: A Little Bit of Heart, whose Director-Approved Special Edition Blu-ray is now available from Criterion. Additional B-Sides include Eat a Bowl of Tea, Life Is Cheap... But Toilet Paper Is Expensive (also on Criterion Channel), Smoke (and its own B-Side Blue in the Face), Chinese Box, and A Thousand Years of Good Prayers. We talk to Wang about making films efficiently, his career-long ambition to make a different kind of film every time, how to construct the perfect “pillow shot” (an homage to filmmaker Yasujirō Ozu), combating boredom on set with ambition, and some smaller films he hopes more people discover. There's also talk on his faltered first step into Hollywood (Slam Dance), what he could've bought with the production budget on Maid in Manhattan (a pink elephant!), and the fear that drove him while making Dim Sum. Be sure to give us a follow on Twitter and Facebook at @TFSBSide. Also enter our giveaways, get access to our private Slack channel, and support new episodes by becoming a Patreon contributor.

Bookwaves/Artwaves is produced and hosted by Richard Wolinsky. Links to assorted local theater & book venues   Bookwaves David Grann, whose latest book is “The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder,” in conversation with Richard Wolinsky, recorded June 14, 2023 at Book Passage bookstore in Corte Madera, California. David Grann is a long-time staff writer for The New Yorker. Earlier books include Killers of the Flower Moon, soon to be a film directed by Martin Scorsese, The Devil and Sherlock Holmes, a collection of essays, and The Lost City of Z. The Wager tells the story of the HMS Wager, one of a handful of British ships sent around Cape Horn to harass the Spanish fleet in the Pacific, which went aground near the Strait of Magellan, and of the crew members who survived (and didn't) during the following year, and of the aftermath back in England. In the interview, David Grann also discusses the origins of Killers of the Flower Moon, and the relationship between all three of his books. Photos: Richard Wolinsky. Complete 37-minute Interview.   Bookwaves Yiyun Li discussing her first novel, “The Vagrants,” in conversation with host Richard Wolinsky, recorded in the KPFA studios, February 10, 2009. Yiyun Li is an award winning author of novels and short stories. Born in China in 1972, she earned a BA at Peking University before coming to the united States and getting a degree in Immunology from the University of Iowa, eventually moving on to a Master of fine Arts in creative fiction and non-fiction from the University of Iowa Writers Workshop. Her stories have appeared in the New Yorker and Paris Review, and two of the stories from her collection A Thousand Years of Good Prayers were adapted into films by Wayne Wang. She has also written five novels, the most recent The Book of Goose in 2022. This is the first of two interviews with Liyun Li. The second was recorded in 2014 for her novel, “Kinder than Solitude.” Complete 30-minute Interview   Book Interview/Events and Theatre Links Note: Shows may unexpectedly close early or be postponed due to actors' positive COVID tests. Check the venue for closures, ticket refunds, and vaccination and mask requirements before arrival. Dates are in-theater performances unless otherwise noted. Some venues operate Tuesday – Sunday; others Wednesday or Thursday through Sunday. All times Pacific Time. Closing dates are sometimes extended. Book Stores Bay Area Book Festival  Event calendar and links to previous events. Book Passage.  Monthly Calendar. Mix of on-line and in-store events. Books Inc.  Mix of on-line and in-store events. The Booksmith.   Monthly Calendar. On-line events only. Center for Literary Arts, San Jose. See website for Book Club guests in upcoming months. Green Apple Books. Events calendar. 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On stage events calendar. Oregon Shakespeare Festival: Calendar listings and upcoming shows. San Francisco Opera. Calendar listings. San Francisco Symphony. Calendar listings. Filmed Live Musicals: Searchable database of all filmed live musicals, podcast, blog. If you'd like to add your bookstore or theater venue to this list, please write Richard@kpfa.org                                     The post Bookwaves/Artwaves – July 6, 2023: David Grann – Yiyun Li appeared first on KPFA.

Yiyun Li discussing her first novel, “The Vagrants,” in conversation with host Richard Wolinsky, recorded in the KPFA studios, February 10, 2009. Yiyun Li is an award winning author of novels and short stories. Born in China in 1972, she earned a BA at Peking University before coming to the united States and getting a degree in Immunology from the University of Iowa, eventually moving on to a Master of fine Arts in creative fiction and non-fiction from the University of Iowa Writers Workshop. Her stories have appeared in the New Yorker and Paris Review, and two of the stories from her collection A Thousand Years of Good Prayers were adapted into films by Wayne Wang. She has also written five novels, the most recent The Book of Goose in 2022. This is the first of two interviews with Liyun Li. The second was recorded in 2014 for her novel, “Kinder than Solitude.” The post Yiyun Li, “The Vagrants,” 2009 appeared first on KPFA.

to “great prayers.”

Growing up in Communist China, Yiyun Li devoured any books she could find. But she never imagined that, on moving to the U.S., she'd become the author of prize-winning fiction in English, including such acclaimed works as A Thousand Years of Good Prayers, The Vagrants and Kinder than Solitude. Her latest novel, The Book of Goose, is a beguiling tale of two peasant girls in rural post-war France. Inspired by a real-life literary hoax, it's a moving meditation on friendship, imagination and truth in storytelling.

3 Man Front, with Landrum Roberts, Pat Smith, John SaBerre, and Conrad van Order, began Tuesday's first hour updating the latest on Damar Hamlin's health and the shocking events from Monday Night Football.  Later, the guys recap a wild New Years Six in bowl games.  20:03 - Mike Griffith, from Dawg Nation & the AJC, says why Stetson Bennett might get too much credit for Georgia's success and what's going on with LSU.  43:41 - The guys say just how good TCU looked the other day. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Stay strong in the midst of your problems people ! He is refining you ! Hang in there ! Count it all joy ! The Lord Is with you through situation ! Stand firm and keep the faith ! Love !!

Sometimes you could be allowing someone to prey on you, thinking they were praying… don't be fooled by the smiles people make that smile can be a snake!

Yiyun Li's ''remarkable'' (The Washington Post) debut fiction collection, A Thousand Years of Good Prayers, won the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award, the PEN/Hemingway Award, and the Guardian First Book Award. Her other work includes the novel The Vagrants, the story collection Gold Boy, Emerald Girl, and the memoir Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life. The recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, Guggenheim Fellowship, and the Windham-Campbell Prize, Li teaches writing at Princeton University and is a contributing editor for A Public Space. A story of obsession and friendship, her new novel follows a woman's mental journey back to the war-ravaged French village of her youth. Acclaimed for their ''moments of joy and pure magic'' (Los Angeles Times), Elizabeth McCracken's seven books include Bowlaway, The Giant's House, Thunderstruck & Other Stories, and The Souvenir Museum, a story collection that was longlisted for the National Book Award. A former faculty member at the Iowa Writers' Workshop and currently the James Michener Chair for Fiction at the University of Texas at Austin, McCracken has earned the PEN New England Award, three Pushcart Prizes, and an O. Henry Prize, among other honors. Her latest novel finds a woman wrestling with grief, history, and her craft as she takes a trip to her recently departed mother's favorite city. (recorded 10/6/2022)

Every once in a while, we'll have an idea for a sketch that's more conceptual than humorous. This is one of those examples. The idea is that when we say our prayers, we tend to sound bored and monotonous. Here, we wanted to see what it would sound like if our rote prayers were in a movie. Enjoy!

I've been using the Book of Common Prayer (BCP) recently to structure my personal prayer and Bible times. I fudge my way around a bit—alternating between the Morning and Evening prayer services, the ‘word' section of the Communion service, the Litany, and so on. It's been enriching and edifying in a number of ways, not least because of the power, precision and depth of so many of the prayers. Here for the example is the special prayer set down for this week, the ‘collect' for Whitsunday (Pentecost), and the days following: God, who at this time taught the hearts of your faithful people by sending to them the light of your Holy Spirit, grant us by this same Spirit to have a right judgement in all things, and evermore to rejoice in his holy comfort; through the merits of Christ Jesus our Saviour, who lives and reigns with you, in the unity of the same Spirit, one God, world without end. Amen. Like so many of the BCP collects, there's a simple request in the middle of the prayer—that by the Spirit we might have a right judgement in all things, and rejoice in the Spirit's ministry to us—but this short request is surrounded and supported by a rich theological frame. In fact, there's almost complete biblical theology in there: Jesus' promise to send the Comforter to enlighten his people, the coming of the Spirit at Pentecost to do just that in the hearts of those who have faith, and the living reign of Jesus, the King and Saviour, who in the unity of the Spirit is the God of the eternal world to come.What the prayer asks for is also echoed in the New Testament's teaching about the Spirit. It connects the illumining, enlightening work of the Spirit promised by Jesus to Paul's teaching that the gift of the Spirit enables us to know the truth of Christ and ‘make judgements about all things' (1 Cor 2:6-16); and it asks for the joy that is so frequently seen as a fruit of the Spirit's presence (Gal 5:22; Rom 14:17; 1 Thes 1:6 etc.). All of it in one 70-word sentence. It almost seems a shame that this extraordinary prayer would be prayed only once a year—or at least every day during the week following Whitsunday each year.We don't much use the traditional church calendar these days, and I'm not especially advocating that we do. However, it's interesting and encouraging to see how the prayers for the different times of the year are shaped by the biblical events and theology that are being remembered and read about in the set readings.On Ash Wednesday, for example, at the beginning of the 40-day period leading up to Easter Day, there's this prayer: Almighty and everlasting God, who hates nothing you have made, and forgives the sins of all those who are penitent: create and make in us new and contrite hearts, that worthily lamenting our sins and acknowledging our wretchedness, we may receive from you, the God of all mercy, perfect remission and forgiveness; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.I can't help thinking that there is a corrective going on here for the works-based asceticism that was associated with Lent in traditional Catholicism. The things we must give up during Lent are not the good created things of the world (none of which God hates) but our sins; and in repenting of these with a new and contrite heart that God himself has created in us, we receive complete and utter forgiveness from the God of all mercy. (It is also a beautiful prayer for the person who feels worthless and hateful, and who can't quite believe that God would show love and mercy even to them.)Not all the BCP prayers are occasional like this. Many of them get repeated often, sometimes daily—like the famous collect for peace:O God, who is the author of peace and lover of concord, in knowledge of whom stands our eternal life, whose service is perfect freedom: defend us your humble servants in all assaults of our enemies; that we, surely trusting in your defence, may not fear the power of any adversaries; through the might of Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.The prayer is structured around a theological understanding of God's character, what he has done through Jesus (the mighty and powerful risen Christ), and what our eschatological situation is in the world (given eternal life, liberated to serve God, but surrounded each day by enemies and adversaries). It's a prayer that understands my situation, and explains it to me, even as I pray it. (I also smile to myself as I pray this prayer because, like me, God is a ‘lover of concord'—although perhaps it's not Concord Golf Club that the prayer is referring to.)The two other collects I come back to repeatedly are given at the conclusion of the Communion service, as prayers that may be used pretty much in any service or on any occasion. Here's the first one:Grant, we beseech you, Almighty God, that the words we have heard this day with our outward ears may through your grace be so grafted inwardly in our hearts, that they may bring forth in us the fruit of good living, to the honour and praise of your name; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. I often pray this one after I've read the Bible, and then go on to pray about specific things I have ‘heard with my outward ears' in the passage, that God would graft them into my heart, and into the heart of others that I want to remember and pray for on that day. And then this is the one I often conclude with before getting on with the business of the day: Go before us, O Lord, in all our doings with your most gracious favour, and further us with your continual help; that in all our works, begun, continued, and ended in you, we may glorify your holy name, and finally by your mercy obtain everlasting life; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. I love this. It reorients me every day to what's really going on as I go about my daily tasks. It casts a vision of God graciously going in front of us, like he did before the people of Israel (cloud by day, fire by night), and constantly leading us forward (‘furthering us'). The purpose of this is that by doing everything in the awareness of God's constant presence and help (begun, continued and ended in him), the glory for our works might go to him (not us), and that by his mercy alone the final outcome might be everlasting life through Jesus Christ. Again, so much theological depth in such a short prayer. Like so many of the BCP prayers, praying this collect regularly not only (by God's grace) calls forth the gracious divine help and supervision I need, but teaches me to trust him in everything. The BCP keeps teaching me what prayer really is: a deep trust in God put into words. PSSome of you may know your way around the printed BCP well enough to use it for your own daily prayer and Bible reading, but if you'd like to give BCP daily devotions a try and want a guided way forward you can go to this site. Choose the ‘traditional' rather than ‘contemporary' forms of the service. You'll get the full thing each day, which may well be too long (in quantity of set Psalms and Bible readings especially). But the material is all there to pick your way through. Many thanks for the encouraging feedback on last week's post about teaching on topics and subjects in our ministries. Some of the suggestions that you sent in (as to how you create space for this kind of teaching in the midst of church life): * have an all-in, any-subject question time as a regular feature of your Sunday gathering (people can contribute questions in advance on any topic);* run the Moore College PTC course (or something similar) as a learning structure outside normal small groups (e.g. on Sunday afternoons); * put one school term aside each year as a ‘training term', where small groups work on a topic (of doctrine or practical ministry) rather than a Bible book—either by coming together for the term, or by using topical studies or courses in the groups; * run ‘stretch nights' or ‘hot topic' nights at several points during the year (in which instead of going to small group that week, members come together at church to look in depth at a topic, perhaps with a visiting speaker). Some churches have made good use of Moore College's Centre for Christian Living (CCL) as a resource for these nights—that is, encouraging small groups to go together to regular CCL events. (Some advance notice: I'll be speaking at the CCL event that's coming up on August 24 on the topic of ‘Deception'. More details to come.) This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.twoways.news/subscribe

The Lord's Prayer is often recited but what was Jesus' purpose in teaching it to His followers? In this teaching, we take a deeper look at what Jesus wanted us to know about prayer.

The Lord's Prayer is often recited but what was Jesus' purpose in teaching it to His followers? In this teaching, we take a deeper look at what Jesus wanted us to know about prayer.

Pastor Jeff continues our Summer Series "Summer In The Psalms"

Novelist and short-story writer Yiyun Li discusses her two homelands – the China she left when she came to the University of Iowa to study immunology, and America, which has been her home for almost 20 years. In novels like Kinder than Solitude and The Vagrants, and short story collections A Thousand Years of Good Prayers and Gold Boy, Emerald Girl, she has impressed critics and fellow writers with the grace and subtlety of her writing, even as she tells stories so truthful and critical that she won't publish her books in China. Michel Faber, writing for The Guardian, said, “Yiyun has the talent, the vision and the respect for life's insoluble mysteries...[she] is the real deal.”Li has received numerous awards, including Whiting Award, Lannan Foundation Residency fellow, 2010 MacArthur Foundation fellow, 2014 Benjamin H. Danks Award from American Academy of Arts and Letters, 2015 Sunday Times EFG Short Story Prize, among others. She was selected by Granta as one of the 21 Best Young American Novelists under 35, and was named by The New Yorker as one of the top 20 writers under 40. She has served on the jury panel for Man Booker International Prize, National Book Award, PEN/Hemingway Award, and other. She is a contributing editor to the Brooklyn-based literary magazine, A Public Space.www.creativeprocess.info

Novelist and short-story writer Yiyun Li discusses her two homelands – the China she left when she came to the University of Iowa to study immunology, and America, which has been her home for almost 20 years. In novels like Kinder than Solitude and The Vagrants, and short story collections A Thousand Years of Good Prayers and Gold Boy, Emerald Girl, she has impressed critics and fellow writers with the grace and subtlety of her writing, even as she tells stories so truthful and critical that she won't publish her books in China. Michel Faber, writing for The Guardian, said, “Yiyun has the talent, the vision and the respect for life's insoluble mysteries...[she] is the real deal.”Li has received numerous awards, including Whiting Award, Lannan Foundation Residency fellow, 2010 MacArthur Foundation fellow, 2014 Benjamin H. Danks Award from American Academy of Arts and Letters, 2015 Sunday Times EFG Short Story Prize, among others. She was selected by Granta as one of the 21 Best Young American Novelists under 35, and was named by The New Yorker as one of the top 20 writers under 40. She has served on the jury panel for Man Booker International Prize, National Book Award, PEN/Hemingway Award, and other. She is a contributing editor to the Brooklyn-based literary magazine, A Public Space.www.creativeprocess.info

Thankful When Thankful is Hard Scripture readings: Habakkuk 3, 1 Thessalonians 5:18 youtube video: https://youtu.be/BSxPWpLPN7A

Scripture readings: 1 Kings 3:3-15, Matthew 6:33, Ephesians 1:15-23, Luke 12:31

Jonathan Kerhoulas. Acts 4:1-4; 23-31.

Novelist and short-story writer Yiyun Li discusses her two homelands – the China she left when she came to the University of Iowa to study immunology, and America, which has been her home for almost 20 years. In novels like Kinder than Solitude and The Vagrants, and short story collections A Thousand Years of Good Prayers and Gold Boy, Emerald Girl, she has impressed critics and fellow writers with the grace and subtlety of her writing, even as she tells stories so truthful and critical that she won't publish her books in China. Michel Faber, writing for The Guardian, said, “Yiyun has the talent, the vision and the respect for life's insoluble mysteries...[she] is the real deal.”Li has received numerous awards, including Whiting Award, Lannan Foundation Residency fellow, 2010 MacArthur Foundation fellow, 2014 Benjamin H. Danks Award from American Academy of Arts and Letters, 2015 Sunday Times EFG Short Story Prize, among others. She was selected by Granta as one of the 21 Best Young American Novelists under 35, and was named by The New Yorker as one of the top 20 writers under 40. She has served on the jury panel for Man Booker International Prize, National Book Award, PEN/Hemingway Award, and other. She is a contributing editor to the Brooklyn-based literary magazine, A Public Space.www.creativeprocess.info

Novelist and short-story writer Yiyun Li discusses her two homelands – the China she left when she came to the University of Iowa to study immunology, and America, which has been her home for almost 20 years. In novels like Kinder than Solitude and The Vagrants, and short story collections A Thousand Years of Good Prayers and Gold Boy, Emerald Girl, she has impressed critics and fellow writers with the grace and subtlety of her writing, even as she tells stories so truthful and critical that she won't publish her books in China. Michel Faber, writing for The Guardian, said, “Yiyun has the talent, the vision and the respect for life's insoluble mysteries...[she] is the real deal.”Li has received numerous awards, including Whiting Award, Lannan Foundation Residency fellow, 2010 MacArthur Foundation fellow, 2014 Benjamin H. Danks Award from American Academy of Arts and Letters, 2015 Sunday Times EFG Short Story Prize, among others. She was selected by Granta as one of the 21 Best Young American Novelists under 35, and was named by The New Yorker as one of the top 20 writers under 40. She has served on the jury panel for Man Booker International Prize, National Book Award, PEN/Hemingway Award, and other. She is a contributing editor to the Brooklyn-based literary magazine, A Public Space.www.creativeprocess.info

Novelist and short-story writer Yiyun Li discusses her two homelands – the China she left when she came to the University of Iowa to study immunology, and America, which has been her home for almost 20 years. In novels like Kinder than Solitude and The Vagrants, and short story collections A Thousand Years of Good Prayers and Gold Boy, Emerald Girl, she has impressed critics and fellow writers with the grace and subtlety of her writing, even as she tells stories so truthful and critical that she won't publish her books in China. Michel Faber, writing for The Guardian, said, “Yiyun has the talent, the vision and the respect for life's insoluble mysteries...[she] is the real deal.” Li has received numerous awards, including Whiting Award, Lannan Foundation Residency fellow, 2010 MacArthur Foundation fellow, 2014 Benjamin H. Danks Award from American Academy of Arts and Letters, 2015 Sunday Times EFG Short Story Prize, among others. She was selected by Granta as one of the 21 Best Young American Novelists under 35, and was named by The New Yorker as one of the top 20 writers under 40. She has served on the jury panel for Man Booker International Prize, National Book Award, PEN/Hemingway Award, and other. She is a contributing editor to the Brooklyn-based literary magazine, A Public Space. www.creativeprocess.info

Novelist and short-story writer Yiyun Li discusses her two homelands – the China she left when she came to the University of Iowa to study immunology, and America, which has been her home for almost 20 years. In novels like Kinder than Solitude and The Vagrants, and short story collections A Thousand Years of Good Prayers and Gold Boy, Emerald Girl, she has impressed critics and fellow writers with the grace and subtlety of her writing, even as she tells stories so truthful and critical that she won't publish her books in China. Michel Faber, writing for The Guardian, said, “Yiyun has the talent, the vision and the respect for life's insoluble mysteries...[she] is the real deal.” Li has received numerous awards, including Whiting Award, Lannan Foundation Residency fellow, 2010 MacArthur Foundation fellow, 2014 Benjamin H. Danks Award from American Academy of Arts and Letters, 2015 Sunday Times EFG Short Story Prize, among others. She was selected by Granta as one of the 21 Best Young American Novelists under 35, and was named by The New Yorker as one of the top 20 writers under 40. She has served on the jury panel for Man Booker International Prize, National Book Award, PEN/Hemingway Award, and other. She is a contributing editor to the Brooklyn-based literary magazine, A Public Space. www.creativeprocess.info

Folks, if we can make a simple suggestion, don't start uploading a podcast right before the holidays! It'll really throw a spanner in the works. This episode, Emily discusses A Thousand Years of Good Prayers: Stories by Yiyun Li. We talk about short story collections, eunuchs, and why connecting with characters is overrated.This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

Yiyun Li grew up in Beijing and came to the United States in 1996. Her debut collection, A Thousand Years of Good Prayers, won the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award, PEN/Hemingway Award, Guardian First Book Award, and California Book Award for first fiction. Her novel, The Vagrants, won the gold medal of California Book Award for fiction, and was shortlisted for Dublin IMPAC Award. Gold Boy, Emerald Girl, her second collection, was a finalist of Story Prize and shortlisted for Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Novelist and short-story writer Yiyun Li discusses her two homelands – the China she left when she came to the University of Iowa to study immunology, and America, which has been her home for almost 20 years. In novels like Kinder than Solitude and The Vagrants, and short story collections A Thousand Years of Good Prayers and Gold Boy, Emerald Girl, she has impressed critics and fellow writers with the grace and subtlety of her writing, even as she tells stories so truthful and critical that she won't publish her books in China. Michel Faber, writing for The Guardian, said, “Yiyun has the talent, the vision and the respect for life's insoluble mysteries...[she] is the real deal.”Li has received numerous awards, including Whiting Award, Lannan Foundation Residency fellow, 2010 MacArthur Foundation fellow, 2014 Benjamin H. Danks Award from American Academy of Arts and Letters, 2015 Sunday Times EFG Short Story Prize, among others. She was selected by Granta as one of the 21 Best Young American Novelists under 35, and was named by The New Yorker as one of the top 20 writers under 40. She has served on the jury panel for Man Booker International Prize, National Book Award, PEN/Hemingway Award, and other. She is a contributing editor to the Brooklyn-based literary magazine, A Public Space.www.creativeprocess.info

Watch the video here. In conversation with Carmen Machado, author of the forthcoming story collection Her Body and Other Parties. Yiyun Li's ''remarkable'' (The Washington Post) debut fiction collection, A Thousand Years of Good Prayers, won the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award, the PEN/Hemingway Award, and the Guardian First Book Award. She was a 2010 MacArthur Fellow, one of Granta's 21 best young American novelists under 35, and one of The New Yorker's top 20 writers under 40. She is also the author of the novel The Vagrants and the story collection Gold Boy, Emerald Girl. In her first nonfiction book, she weaves her identities as author, mother, and immigrant, and her treasured literary influences to confront questions about selfhood, art, and recovery.  (recorded 3/2/2017)

The personal pleas and prayers of the righteous, teaching us how to call upon our Lord as they did. Join Sh. Omar Suleiman as he covers the prayers of the pious.

Li is the author of two novels and two story collections, “Gold Boy, Emerald Girl” and “A Thousand Years of Good Prayers.” A book of memoir and essays, “Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life,” was published last year.

这集播客中提到的相关作品的介绍和链接：## 电影&剧集 《恋恋书中人》(Ruby Sparks) (2012) 《天堂大塞车》(Heaven is a Traffic Jam on the 405) (2016) 音乐 "Electric Blue", Arcade Fire "Everything Now", Arcade Fire 书 Browse: The World in Bookshops, Edited by Henry Hitchings 其他 李翊云（Yiyun Li）（1972年－）是一位在美国用英文写作的华人女作家。生于北京，1991年毕业于北京四中，1996年毕业于北京大学生命科学学院。2000年获美国爱荷华大学免疫专业硕士。2002年入爱荷华大学作家工作坊，开始发表英文短篇小说作品。2005年获艺术创作硕士MFA学位。其创作获得许多奖项，在美欧文坛声誉鹊起。她现居加州屋崙市。除了写作之外，她也在戴维斯加利福尼亚大学授课。 主要作品有：《A Thousand Years of Good Prayers》《千年修得共枕眠》， 藍燈書屋, 2005年；《The Vagrants》《漂泊者》，藍燈書屋, 2009年；《Gold Boy, Emerald Girl》《金童玉女》，藍燈書屋, 2010年。 如何收听「不丧」 任何设备都可以通过访问「不丧」的网站在线收听 我们推荐使用泛用型播客客户端收听「不丧」 泛用型播客客户端直接通过播客上传者提供的RSS向用户提供播客内容和信息，不会有第三方的干涉；并且只要上传者更新了Feed，就能在客户端上收听到节目。 iOS平台上我们推荐使用Podcast（苹果预装播客客户端），Castro，Overcast和Pocket Casts。 Android平台上收听方式可以参照这里。 macOS和Windows平台可以通过iTunes收听。 欢迎通过微博关注我们以获得有关节目的第一手资讯。

这集播客中提到的相关作品的介绍和链接：## 电影&剧集 《恋恋书中人》(Ruby Sparks) (2012) 《天堂大塞车》(Heaven is a Traffic Jam on the 405) (2016) 音乐 "Electric Blue", Arcade Fire "Everything Now", Arcade Fire 书 Browse: The World in Bookshops, Edited by Henry Hitchings 其他 李翊云（Yiyun Li）（1972年－）是一位在美国用英文写作的华人女作家。生于北京，1991年毕业于北京四中，1996年毕业于北京大学生命科学学院。2000年获美国爱荷华大学免疫专业硕士。2002年入爱荷华大学作家工作坊，开始发表英文短篇小说作品。2005年获艺术创作硕士MFA学位。其创作获得许多奖项，在美欧文坛声誉鹊起。她现居加州屋崙市。除了写作之外，她也在戴维斯加利福尼亚大学授课。 主要作品有：《A Thousand Years of Good Prayers》《千年修得共枕眠》， 藍燈書屋, 2005年；《The Vagrants》《漂泊者》，藍燈書屋, 2009年；《Gold Boy, Emerald Girl》《金童玉女》，藍燈書屋, 2010年。 如何收听「不丧」 任何设备都可以通过访问「不丧」的网站在线收听 我们推荐使用泛用型播客客户端收听「不丧」 泛用型播客客户端直接通过播客上传者提供的RSS向用户提供播客内容和信息，不会有第三方的干涉；并且只要上传者更新了Feed，就能在客户端上收听到节目。 iOS平台上我们推荐使用Podcast（苹果预装播客客户端），Castro，Overcast和Pocket Casts。 Android平台上收听方式可以参照这里。 macOS和Windows平台可以通过iTunes收听。 欢迎通过微博关注我们以获得有关节目的第一手资讯。

节目摘要 这一期我们的聊天话题是书店。不同的书店都有哪些特色？在网络年代，为什么实体书店仍然很重要？你理想中的书店是什么样的？你和书店的故事又有哪些？ 节目备注 这集播客中提到的相关作品的介绍和链接： 电影&剧集 《恋恋书中人》(Ruby Sparks) (2012) 《天堂大塞车》(Heaven is a Traffic Jam on the 405) (2016) 音乐 "Electric Blue", Arcade Fire "Everything Now", Arcade Fire 书 Browse: The World in Bookshops, Edited by Henry Hitchings 其他 李翊云（Yiyun Li）（1972年－）是一位在美国用英文写作的华人女作家。生于北京，1991年毕业于北京四中，1996年毕业于北京大学生命科学学院。2000年获美国爱荷华大学免疫专业硕士。2002年入爱荷华大学作家工作坊，开始发表英文短篇小说作品。2005年获艺术创作硕士MFA学位。其创作获得许多奖项，在美欧文坛声誉鹊起。她现居加州屋崙市。除了写作之外，她也在戴维斯加利福尼亚大学授课。 主要作品有：《A Thousand Years of Good Prayers》《千年修得共枕眠》， 藍燈書屋, 2005年；《The Vagrants》《漂泊者》，藍燈書屋, 2009年；《Gold Boy, Emerald Girl》《金童玉女》，藍燈書屋, 2010年。 如何收听「不丧」 任何设备都可以通过访问「不丧」的网站在线收听 我们推荐使用泛用型播客客户端收听「不丧」 泛用型播客客户端直接通过播客上传者提供的RSS向用户提供播客内容和信息，不会有第三方的干涉；并且只要上传者更新了Feed，就能在客户端上收听到节目。 iOS平台上我们推荐使用Podcast（苹果预装播客客户端），Castro，Overcast和Pocket Casts。 Android平台上收听方式可以参照这里。 macOS和Windows平台可以通过iTunes收听。 欢迎通过微博关注我们以获得有关节目的第一手资讯。

Yiyun Li reads her story from the May 8, 2017, issue of the magazine.  Li is the author of two novels and two story collections, “Gold Boy and Emerald Girl” and “A Thousand Years of Good Prayers.” Li’s book of memoir and essays, “Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life,” was published earlier this year.  She’s been publishing fiction and nonfiction in The New Yorker since 2003.

Lesley is an active member of the Alliance for Women Film Composers and a 2016 Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences initiate. Lesley's earlier film projects include When Night Is Falling, the Oscar winning You Can Count On Me and Mira Nair's Golden Globe winning Hysterical Blindness. Some of Lesley's other film credits include Los Locos, Yo-Yo Ma: Six Gestures, Mansfield Park, A Price Above Rubies, Marion Bridge, A Thousand Years of Good Prayers, The Moth Diaries, and the documentary, How To Change The World. Lesley's most recent projects include the Oscar winning Manchester by the Sea, The Apology, A Better Man, and Beaches.

Yiyun Li reads her story “On The Street Where You Live,” from the January 9, 2017, issue of the magazine. Li is the author of two novels and two story collections, “Gold Boy, Emerald Girl," and “A Thousand Years of Good Prayers.” She has been publishing fiction and non-fiction in The New Yorker since 2003.

Luke 16:19-31Why I cannot be soft on Hell.1. It is eternal2. It is a place of pain 3. It is a place of fear4. It is a place of sadness5. it is a place of isolation 6. It is a place of separationA few good things in Hell.1. Good People are in hell2. Good visions in hell3. Good Prayers are in hell4. Good Memory's are in hell5. Good theology are in hell6. Good priorities are in hell7. Good intentions

Good Prayers! Part 3 in the series A Different Kind of Good!   In my private displays of affection to God, I am tempted to show when I need to hide!   “Watch out! Don't do your good deeds publicly, to be admired by others, for you will lose the...

Good Prayers! Part 3 in the series A Different Kind of Good!   In my private displays of affection to God, I am tempted to show when I need to hide!   “Watch out! Don’t do your good deeds publicly, to be admired by others, for you will lose the...

Li is author of “A Thousand Years of Good Prayers” and “The Vagrants.” A Beijing native and graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, she has received numerous awards. She reads and speaks at UC Berkeley. Series: "Story Hour in the Library" [Humanities] [Show ID: 20628]

Li is author of “A Thousand Years of Good Prayers” and “The Vagrants.” A Beijing native and graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, she has received numerous awards. She reads and speaks at UC Berkeley. Series: "Story Hour in the Library" [Humanities] [Show ID: 20628]

Kecia Lynn speaks with author Yiyun Li, author of A Thousand Years of Good Prayers and The Vagrants.

Kecia Lynn speaks with author Yiyun Li, author of A Thousand Years of Good Prayers and The Vagrants.

Yiyun Li grew up in Beijing, China and moved to the United States in 1996. Her stories and essays have been published in The New Yorker, Best American Short Stories, and elsewhere. She has received a Whiting Writers' Award and was awarded a Lannan Foundation residency. Her debut collection, A Thousand Years of Good Prayers, won the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award, PEN/Hemingway Award, and Guardian First Book Award. She was selected as one of Granta's 21 Best of Young American Novelists. Her novel, The Vagrants, was published in February 2009.

Yiyun Li grew up in Beijing, China and moved to the United States in 1996. Her stories and essays have been published in The New Yorker, Best American Short Stories, and elsewhere. She has received a Whiting Writers' Award and was awarded a Lannan Foundation residency. Her debut collection, A Thousand Years of Good Prayers, won the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award, PEN/ Hemingway Award, and Guardian First Book Award. She was selected as one of Granta's 21 Best of Young American Novelists. Her novel, The Vagrants, was published in February, 2009.

Yiyun Li grew up in Beijing, China and moved to the United States in 1996. Her stories and essays have been published in The New Yorker, Best American Short Stories, and elsewhere. She has received a Whiting Writers' Award and was awarded a Lannan Foundation residency. Her debut collection, A Thousand Years of Good Prayers, won the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award, PEN/Hemingway Award, and Guardian First Book Award. She was selected as one of Granta's 21 Best of Young American Novelists. Her novel, The Vagrants, was published in February 2009.

Listen Up! Show 149 barely squeaked into December with the following nonsense:We hope you have survived 2008 without too much damage, and we sincerely wish you the best for 2009!  We both hope (Rich) and pray (John) that our new president can turn this ship around.Tune 1: Rock Ronald ReaganIndependent media and the "quality" paradoxTune 2: Two Mazurkas by The Four BagsOn Film: A Thousand Years of Good Prayers 

ONLINE EXCLUSIVE: Director Wayne Wang (Joy Luck Club) not only moves from studio films such as Maid in Manhattan to indies such as Smoke, but also blurs the line between truth and fiction. That's the heart of his new film, A Thousand Years of Good Prayers.