Yiyun Li Reads “Techniques and Idiosyncrasies”

The author reads her story from the March 17, 2025, issue of the magazine.
Yiyun Li
Illustration by The New Yorker; Source photograph courtesy Agence Opale

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Yiyun Li reads her story, “Techniques and Idiosyncrasies,” from the March 17, 2025, issue of the magazine. Li is the author of eight books of fiction, including the novels “Must I Go” and “The Book of Goose,” and the story collection “Wednesday’s Child,” which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2024. A new nonfiction book, “Things in Nature Merely Grow,” will be published in May.