Podcasts about my life i write

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.

【主播的话】十月下旬，一年一度的宝珀理想国文学奖落下帷幕。今年的主题叫做“必须保卫复杂”。文学奖组委会这样写道：在一切趋于简化和同构的当下，寄望每位倾心文学的青年创作者，勇于捍卫复杂之结构和叙事、感受和视野，最终抵达真实。颁奖典礼结束的几周之后，我在美国拜访了知名华裔作家李翊云老师，她也是今年文学奖的评委之一。我好奇的核心问题是，她会如何理解文学当下所面临的复杂性，我们需要保卫的究竟是什么。在当今的世界文坛中，李翊云拥有非常独特的位置。上世纪七十年代，她出生于北京，毕业于北大生物系。九十年代，她赴美国留学，攻读免疫专业的博士。但在博士毕业的前夕，她突然决定，放弃成为一名科学家，而要成为一名全职作家。她入选了著名的爱荷华作家工作坊，开始发表英文小说，并在美国文坛声名鹊起。如今，她是美国文坛最知名、成就最高的华裔作家之一，斩获了包括麦克阿瑟天才奖学金、美国笔会海明威奖、福克纳文学奖在内的多项大奖，也不时出现在诺贝尔文学奖的热门候选人名单上。值得一提的还有，尽管她在中国出生长大，母语也是中文，但她所有的作品均用英文完成。如今，李翊云除了写英文小说，也教英文写作。她目前是普林斯顿大学创意写作项目的主任，给一群聪明又富有野心的美国年轻人教授写作。我在普林斯顿大学见到她的时候，她刚刚结束了一天的教学。我们约在她的办公楼见面，隔壁不时传来学生们上下课的声音。在这一个多小时的聊天中，我们探讨了关于文学、语言、创作母题、身份认同、时代复杂性等诸多议题。对我来说，也像是上了一场精彩的写作课。本期节目由宝珀理想国文学奖赞助播出。【本期主播】王磬：微博@王磬【本期嘉宾】李翊云：知名华裔作家，美国普林斯顿大学创意写作项目主任【本期剧透】3:25 担任宝珀理想国文学奖评委的感受与观察07:33 这一代的青年华语作家似乎都喜欢写生计问题10:31 同时代的美国青年作家，他们的问题意识会是什么？12:43 当下的世界文坛里是否也有“复杂性”需要保卫？15:13 在思考和创作的时候，中文英文分别占据什么位置？17:00 “中文是一种模糊的语言”18:31 拿过来就能用的语言，虽然有价值，但它是”像钞票一样的价值，没有原创的价值，不fresh，很dirty“。写作还是需要”找到属于自己的语言“21:34 “kill time“的说法其实隐含了一个violent action，但人们用惯了就不会去细想了23:35 写作是无限接近完美、但永远无法抵达的过程25:47 语言大师托尔斯泰，用”transparent“来形容马蹄过桥的声音28:00 Qing受到的启发：”你每天都在干什么？“其实是最核心的采访问题30:51 写小说就是在写时间，时间是最民主的元素，时间面前人人平等33:59 ”我不相信灵感，也不相信真的有writer's block“38:05 写一本书不难，要写一辈子的书才比较难。我的挑战就是要一直写下去43:54 莎士比亚如何描写人的感情45:00 区分story（故事）与situation（情境）46:34 好故事的标准是什么？50:23 写作是可以教会的吗？不能教写作，但可以教学生怎么“写句子”。写作课上还要花大量时间教阅读55:58 在美国大学的写作课上遇到的中国学生，喜欢给老师解释“我为什么要这么写”59:00 如何看待美国文坛的移民作家与移民文学？1:00:04写完了一部作品的时候我反而会不开心，因为写作过程的太快乐了1:01:38 我对学生说，你每读了一个在世的作家的作品，就得也读一个已经死去的作家的作品1:03:00 传道、授业、解惑，这三件事中，我只做”解惑“1:14:43 华语文学是否具有世界性？以沈从文为例【相关阅读】本期提及的李翊云作品：- Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life- Where Reasons End- Must I Go（已译成中文：《我该走了吗》）- The Book of GooseWilliam Trevor托尔斯泰《战争与和平》莎士比亚《查理二世》Marilynne Robinson里尔克沈从文【本期音乐】Arthur Rubinstein - Nocturne No. 4 in F Major, Op. 15, No. 1【Logo设计】刘刘（ins: imjanuary)【后期制作】方改则【互动方式】微博@不合时宜TheWeirdo【商务合作】可发邮件至hibuheshiyi@126.com或微博私信

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

继续回顾去年的阅读，本期聊一些女性作家的非虚构作品和与写作本身相关的写作，包括散文集、日记书信和传记回忆录。 Female writers writing about writing. :) 提到的书： Melissa Febos, Abandon Me (2:08) Virginia Woolf, A Writer's Diary (14:04) Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West, Love Letters: Vita and Virginia (22:47) Nigel Nicolson, Portrait of a Marriage (26:25) Lydia Davis, Essay Two (30:50) Susan Sontag, Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963 (41:45) Ray Chow, Not Like a Native Speaker (46:48) Yiyun Li, Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life (48:47) --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/GFtherapy/message

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)

Editor and publisher Brigid Hughes and writer Yiyun Li join co-hosts Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan to talk about reading War and Peace over the course of 85 days with others around the world. The unusually broad and lively Twitter conversation, organized in 2020 by A Public Space and led by Li, is captured in the newly published volume Tolstoy Together. In this episode, Li discusses her love of Russian novels and describes what it was like reading War and Peace in sections at the ends of newspapers when she was growing up in Beijing. Hughes, who read the book for the first time during this project, explains how the community of readers who contributed to the online book club made the experience special. To hear the full episode, subscribe through iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, Spotify, or your favorite podcast app (include the forward slashes when searching). You can also listen by streaming from the player below. Check out video excerpts from our interviews at LitHub's Virtual Book Channel and Fiction/Non/Fiction's YouTube Channel, and don't miss our brand-new website: https://www.fnfpodcast.net/ This podcast is produced by Anne Kniggendorf. Selected readings: Yiyun Li Tolstoy Together Must I Go? Where Reasons End Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life Gold Boy, Emerald Girl A Thousand Years of Good Prayers Kinder Than Solitude The Vagrants   Brigid Hughes A Public Space   Others: The Translation Wars (The New Yorker) Her Private Space: On Brigid Hughes, Editor (LitHub) Everything You've Ever Wanted to Know About Lit Mags (and Likely More) (FnF episode) #APStogether : Events Infinite Happiness (originally published in A Public Space, by Jamel Brinkley) Cattle Haul (by Jesmyn Ward) War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy, trans. Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky   The Raid and Other Stories by Leo Tolstoy  Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy, trans. Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky   Matt Gallagher Dewaine Farria Alexandra Schwartz ZZ Packer   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, Liberty discusses a few great older books, including A Gentle Madness. This episode is sponsored by the Read Harder journal from Book Riot. Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS or Apple Podcasts and never miss a beat book. Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news. Books discussed on the show: Truly Devious by Maureen Johnson The Vanishing Stair by Maureen Johnson The City of Brass by S.A. Chakraborty The Kingdom of Copper by S.A. Chakraborty The Golden Tresses of the Dead by Alan Bradley Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley The Cold Is In Her Bones by Peternelle van Arsdale The Beast is An Animal by Peternelle van Arsdale The Forest of Hands and Teeth by Carrie Ryan Bookends: Collected Intros and Outros by Michael Chabon A Gentle Madness: Bibliophiles, Bibliomanes, and the Eternal Passion for Books by Nicholas A. Basbanes Last Boat Out of Shanghai: The Epic Story of the Chinese Who Fled Mao's Revolution by Helen Zia Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life by Yiyun Li Dreyer's English: An Utterly Correct Guide to Clarity and Style by Benjamin Dreyer Anguished English: An Anthology of Accidental Assaults upon Our Language by Richard Lederer The Sleepwalker's Guide to Dancing by Mira Jacob Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations by Mira Jacob

Yiyun Li reads her short story from the October 1, 2018, issue of the magazine. Li is the author of two story collections and two novels, "The Vagrants" and "Kinder Than Solitude." Her book of memoir and essays, "Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life," was published last year. Li has been publishing fiction and nonfiction in The New Yorker since 2003.

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.

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.

Two women who emigrated to the US from Asia and both became writers talk to guest presenter Lauren Schiller in San Francisco about their 'messy' relationship with language, their rejection of the American Dream, and how they're trying to break free from labels. Barbara Jane Reyes is a poet, whose work explores language, culture and identity. She was born in Manila in the Philippines, and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area. She started writing seriously as a student - when there were very few writers who were voicing her own immigrant experience. She now teaches Philippine Studies at the University of San Francisco and is the author of four books of poetry. She is due to publish her fifth collection, Invocation to Daughters, later this year. Yiyun Li is an award-winning writer. She grew up in Beijing, and moved to the US when she was in her early 20s to study immunology. It was after she had arrived in Iowa and adopted English as her own language that she decided to make the leap from science to creative writing. She has published four works of fiction, and numerous essays. Her latest book is called 'Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life' and it was written while she grappled with depression and was finding solace in other writers. Yiyun teaches creative writing at UC Davis. Image: Barbara Jane Reyes (left) (credit: Oscar Bermeo) and Yiyun Li (right) (credit: Roger Turesson)