The New Yorker: The Writer's Voice - New Fiction from The New Yorker
The New Yorker: The Writer's Voice - New Fiction from The New Yorker
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Yiyun Li Reads “Any Human Heart”
52 minutes Posted Jun 15, 2025 at 10:00 am.
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Yiyun Li reads her story “Any Human Heart,” from the June 23, 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,” was published in May.

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